By Sena Thoradeniya (1) Economic Crisis: Then and Now Founding father of JVP, Patabandige Don Nandasiri Wijeweera (later baptized as Rohana, to signify his Southern roots and victorious armies of ancient Rohana Rata), began his famous panthi paha” (five classes or lessons) in 1965, with Economic Crisis of Lanka”, an imaginary crisis he has invented […]

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Vichara At the opening of the 10th Parliament, President AKD made a policy statement covering a wide range of issues. It was a professional presentation. This note is in elaboration on a few topics in his speech that are related to economic development. (In this note the President’s statements are in Italics.) 1. if national […]

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KAMALIKA PIERIS After the colonization schemes of the 1950s and 1960s,   the government started doing Development Schemes. Tamil Separatist Movement viewed these development schemes   with great alarm, because they brought Sinhalese settlers into the area they had reserved for Eelam. State-sponsored colonization would lead to a change in the demography of the Northern and Eastern […]

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Prof. Hudson McLean President-elect Donald Trump Appointment of General Keith Kellogg with High Credibility, to Stop the Russian- Ukraine Conflict, is Positive!       A Master-Stroke! Trump Offers the Russian Bear a Honeycomb! Offering President Putin of Russia a 20% land area which was Ukraine and a 1000 km Buffer De-Militarised Zone is a […]

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Dr Sarath Obeysekera Politicians in this country instigate people to carry on strikeS irrespective of the nature of the problem ,and without studying the proposal –may be… From  the government- side there  should be many public forums explaining the circumstances under which Indians have been entrusted the peacekeeping functions in the North and how Rajeev […]

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By N Sathiya Moorthy Courtesy Ceylon Today In a way, there isn’t much new in the book, The Rout of Prabhakaran by M.R. Narayan Swamy, who had authored an ‘unauthorised’ biography of LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran, Inside an Elusive Mind, way back in 2003, and two other books, one earlier and another latter, on the world’s most dreaded […]

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