BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS  Citizenship by descent is considered the clear cut-right of a person and it is a universal human right. Any person born to this world he/ she /bisexual has right to live in the world and nobody can deny this right. This is not written in the list of human rights in United […]

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KAMALIKA PIERIS The book Archive of memory, reflections on 70 years of independence” curated by Malathi de Alwis and Hasini Haputhanthri was published in 2019 by HistoricalDialogue.lk.(ISBN 978-642-5313-00-6) There was also a traveling exhibition which displayed the same objects and text given in this book. The book and exhibition seem to have been planned together, […]

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KAMALIKA PIERIS The Sinhalese, the Buddhists and the Sri Lanka Army are presented in an unflattering, negative manner in the book ‘Archive of memory.’ The episode ‘Beef lamprais’ is on Buddhism.” The    narrator who lived in Kalutara, says we ate beef every day though we were Buddhist, so did the rest.  The majority in Kalutara […]

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KAMALIKA PIERIS Lastly,  Archive of Memory looked at  the Eelam War. There is a brief reference to LTTE activity. Two narrators recall LTTE bombs, one  at No Limit, Nugegoda on November 27, 2007 and the explosion at  Katunayake airport on 24.7 2001. In ‘Chain and bangles’ we are told of LTTE attacks on Sinhala villages. […]

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තිස්ස ගුණතිලක සිත හා සිහිය යනු දෙකක් බව දැන් ඔබට පැහැදිලිවී ඇතැයි සිතමි. ‘සිත’ යනු භාහිරයේ පවතින රූප හැඩතලයකින් නික්මෙන තරංගය (වර්ණ තරංග, ශබ්ද තරංග ආදිය) අධික වේගයකින් විපරිනාමවන ඉංද්‍රියන් හා ගැටීමෙන් (ප්‍රසාදයවීමෙන්) ඇතිවන ස්කන්ධ ක්‍රියාවලියෙන් (රූප වේදන සංඥා ආදි) ආරම්භවී පටිච්චපමුප්පාදය තුල දිවෙන අරමුන නැතහොත් සිතුවිල්ල නැමති ක්‍රියාවලියයි. තත්පරයකට කෝටියකටත් වඩා වැඩි වේගයකින් සිතුවිල්ල/අරමුන/සිත […]

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Manusha Media විදේශීය සංචාරකයින්ට අලුත් අවුරුදු අත්දැකීම් ලබාදීම සදහා සංවිධානය කර තිබූ  “New Year in Paradise 2023” අලුත් අවුරුදු උත්සවයේ අවුරුදු කුමරා සහ කුමරියට සිංගප්පූරුවට යාමට සහ ඒමට ශ්‍රී ලංකන් ගුවන් සමාගමෙන් ගුවන් ටිකට්පත් දෙකක් ප්‍රදානය කළේය. මෙරට සංචාරය කරන විදේශීය සංචාරකයින්ට අලුත් අවුරුද්ද හා බැදුණ දේශීය සංස්කෘතික අංගයන්හි අත්දැකීම් ලබාදෙමින් “New Year in Paradise […]

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Senaka Weeraratna Sri Lanka’s Christian Colonial Dark History The Govt. Sri Lanka must :1) Inquire into Colonial Crimes committed by the three Colonial Rulers including Genocidal crimes and wholesale destruction of Buddhist Temples and illegal seizure, occupation of Buddhist Temple lands, and the prohibition of the practice of Buddhism, 2) Establish a Museum dedicated to […]

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Rohan Abeygunawardena Rugby is without doubt most popular team game among Sri Lankans, after cricket. This oval shaped ball game too was introduced by the British like Cricket and Tea in the mid nineteenth centaury. Rugby Football is a sport with an abundance of history, tradition and interesting episodes. To start with, a pupil at […]

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Courtesy Hiru News Foreign media cited sources familiar with the Paris Club, to say that the group has informed the International Monetary Fund of their willingness to support Sri Lanka’s debt re-structuring. As it stands, only India has confirmed its participation in the restructuring process, with the IMF accepting a letter in this regard. Meanwhile, […]

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