Sugath Kulatunga The worst form of tanha is bala thanha the craving for power. Today the deafening baying of the opposition in the name of democracy is nothing but the craving for power. The government is equally strident for the retention of power. This dogfight for power has disregarded the present plight of the nation […]

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Senaka Weeraratna  Aims 1)    To research and rewrite the narrative surrounding gaining of independence on 4th Feb 1948 2)    To ensure that the narrative is factually correct 3)    To explore the internal factors and the external factors that contributed to the gaining of freedom 4)    To plan a celebration that gives due place to all […]

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KAMALIKA PIERIS China has also joined in the discussion on human rights. The first ‘South-South Human Rights Forum’ was held in Beijing on the 7th and 8th of December 2017. The forum was jointly sponsored by the Information Office of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs […]

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Raj Gonsalkorale The following passage from the Britannica (https://www.britannica.com/topic/democracy) is a good commencement point to discuss the much debated Local Government poll in Sri Lanka. Conducting the election is said to cost around 10 Billion Rupees of State funds, assuming such funds are available to spend in the bankrupt Sri Lanka. Besides State money, individual […]

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Sangam Talks This talk leverages cutting-edge scholarly researches in textual criticism and cognitive sciences to arrive at a reasonable understanding of Christian beliefs. The findings will reveal a hitherto unknown face of Christianity to the rational Hindu. About the Speaker: Kalavai Venkat is a Silicon Valley-based writer, an atheist, a practicing orthodox Hindu, and author […]

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Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake 182 economists and development experts from around the world in a statement released last week in the Guardian on Sunday observed that extensive debt cancellation was needed to give the Sri Lankan economy a chance of recovery following the country’s first-ever Default on loan payments. Sri Lanka would be a test case of […]

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බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය ඉංජිනේරු ගාල්ලේ දෙව්සිරි පී හේවාවිදාන ලන්ඩනයේ සිට ලියන අලුත්ම ලිපිය 2023 ජනවාරි14  ඉරිදා සති අග අරුණේ 17  පිටුවේ .මේ දවස් වල පත්තරයක් දිග ඇරියොත් අපි දකින්නේ චං නෝනාය. උදේ පාන්දර ටී.වී එක දැම්මොත් ලංකාවේ කොහේ හරි නගරයක චං නෝනා මොකක් විවෘත කරන හෝ කවුරුන් හෝ හමුවන ප්‍රවෘත්ති කෑල්ලක් අපට දකින්නට ලැබෙනවා ෂුවර්ය. චං නෝනා […]

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Malinda Seneviratne When the then US Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, Teresita Currie Schaffer, insisted in the early 1990s that Sri Lanka’s food security lies in the wheat fields of North America, it was obviously a part of a general anti-rice rant with a view to propping the American wheat farmer. This is […]

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