Mario Perera, Kadawata ƒ”š‚ In my opinion, this article (24 Apr, 2013 Sajeeva Samaranayake Colombo, Religion and faith) is an attempt to put India in the spotlight as the founder and sustainer of the Sinhalese Buddhist civilization, more specifically of Sinhalese-ness and Buddhist-ness.. The article comes at a time when the Sri Lanka-India relationship is plummeting […]

by Mario Perera, Kadawata Last night while watching the 10 p.m.Sirisa news broadcast, I was treated to a rude jolting shock; the announcement that Rev.Fr.Tissa Balasuriya had died. That death comes to all is no secret. But the one that just died was no ordinary man. Besides being an intellectual and moral giant his death […]

by Mario Perera, Kadawata At the end of the war, the President on addressing parliament introduced a slogan which according to him should henceforthƒ”š‚  govern the legal, social and moral conscience the nation. It was about the entire population being divided into two water tight segments; those who loved the country and those who did […]

By Mario Perera, Kadawata ƒ”š‚ Shenali, I am not faulting you for entertaining your wistful hope. But in the end good sense has to prevail. You surely know, with your wide knowledge of so many issues, that your plea to the Tamil people to distance themselves from the TNA would inevitably fall on deaf ears. You […]

By Mario Perera, Kadawata Much has been said on the above subject. The government channels are trying to whip up public condemnation of the concerned Dons by harping on dubious and contentious themes, namely the link up with a disgruntled opposition and worse still connivance with separatist diaspora elements.ƒ”š‚  Internationalizing a national problem is a […]

By Mario Perera, Kadawata ƒ”š‚ There exists a big gap, a wide gaping, even abysmal hole, between concepts and realities, between ideas and life as it is lived. Such values as patriotism and nationalism are deep seated attitudes to be expected in ordinary citizens of a country. They are considered as being normal, so much so […]

Mario Perera, Kadawata ƒ”š‚ Julian Assange is not a fugitive from Justice. He is a fugitive from injustice. And from where would this injustice originate? Where else but from the American-Anglo-European axis of evil, the Frankensteins and Draculas of international law and morality? Assange is wanted in the USA to be tried for treason. The road […]

by Mario Perera, Kadawata ƒ”š‚ The Olympics is in full swing. The USA is on top. Some other European nations and some assimilated nations are still visible on the screen though running somewhere behind. Those nations, courteously called “ƒ”¹…”developing nations’, and the irremediable third world nations are also there, more as tourists and awed onlookers. They […]

By Mario Perera, Kadawata Such was the report in the “ƒ”¹…”Island’ recently. The death penalty is a contentious subject. The present actual context as always counts for much in determining the issue. What the times have to tell us is alarming. No one denies that this country is in the throes of a lawlessness crisis. […]

By Mario Perera, Kadawata I refer to the article by Sara De Silva which appeared in InfoLanka a few days ago. Words such as “ƒ”¹…”reconciliation’ are now very much in vogue and have become yet other instruments of domination of the self-assumed “ƒ”¹…”blameless white societies’ and their brown and black lackeys the world over. The […]

Byƒ”š‚  Mario Perera, Kadawata I refer to D.B.S.Jeyaraj’s article: President Rajapaksa’s London address to Commonwealth Economic Forum cancelled “ƒ¢¢”š¬…” posted on his web site and reproduced in “ƒ”¹…”InfoLanka’. He says: In an unexpected, sudden development the Commonwealth Economic Forum the event in which Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa was scheduled to deliver the keynote address […]

By Mario Perera, Kadawata ƒ”š‚ Unsolicited gratuitous advice is now being tendered to Sri Lanka by members of an exclusive Home for the Aged Club. This self constituted club comprises former Heads of State of certain nations. They all bear the label EX. One of them is Nelson Mandela. He is an ex in more senses […]

By Mario Perera, Kadawata What the world is made to watch is a scene of US-EU flute blowers and the Indian Sikh cobra (called our “ƒ”¹…”relation’) now come in to the open, twisting and turning to the tune, in a dance akin to that of Salome’s seven veils. The only difference being that the Sikh […]

By Mario Perera, Kadawata There was another shooting in an American school. A school boy entered that precinct of learning with a gun and let off a barrage at his school mates. There were deaths. Photos and videos displayed it all. There was weeping and hysteria. School children were seeking consolation in one another’s arms. […]

By Mario Perera, Kadawata All Sri Lankan rulers embroiled with the secessionist movement of the LTTE, went to great pains not to ruffle India and to be in her good books. India’s foreign policy regarding Sri Lanka was deeply embedded in domestic compulsions. The South Indian, especially Tamil Nadu electorate was the key factor. An […]

By Mario Perera, Kadawata In a recent comment I made to a lead article appearing in Lankaweb, I expressed the above opinion. A commentator labelled it as “ƒ”¹…”NONSENSE’ and that such a thing could NEVER be. I have spoken about this issue more at length in my book: The kingdom, the glory and the power. […]

By Mario Perera, Kadawata Cameron labelled the social classes involved in the London riots as being “ƒ”¹…”sick’. Some others called them “ƒ”¹…”wild beasts’. The media wrote of the rioters of London as a generation with no hope and nothing to lose. If such is what they are, then whose fault is it? There was someone […]

By Mario Perera, Kadawata ƒ”š‚ It was downright humiliating to watch the performance of Minister G.L.Peiris before the Indian rulers. There he was seated upright before Manmohan like an Abitthiya before the Mahanayake, with his head held with its habitual slant, taking in every word seemingly from the source itself of wisdom. Then he met two […]

By Mario Perera, Kadawata Advaita and Transcendentalism are two perspectives of existence that are literally poles apart and irreconcilable. The former is a fundamental tenet of the Asian mind and outlook, whereas the latter expresses the Christianity influenced Western perspective on that subject. Advaita means non dual or not two. This Oneness is said to […]

By Mario Perera, Kadawata A group calling themselves “ƒ”¹…”Christian clergy and laymen’ have signed a statement in which they say “We call on all Sri Lankans and particularly religious leaders and the government to take into serious consideration the stories of our brothers and sisters contained in the (Ban-ki Moon) report, along with its conclusions […]

By Mario Perera, Kadawata ƒ”š‚ There are many words that sprout up and come into vogue in relatively short periods of time. The word “ƒ”¹…”Reconciliation’ itself is not in any sense new, just its being minted together with “ƒ”¹…”Commission’ for the pleasure of the few. Wars and conflicts have been part and parcel of human history. […]

By Mario Perera, Kadawata People in glass house must not throw stones. What happens when they do? Well they break their window panes and become all the more scrutable and assailable. The axis of evil has done it again. First there were the World Wars, their dirty wars into which they dragged their colonies. Then […]

By Mario Perera, Kadawata ƒ”š‚ I have just finished reading for the third time the masterly article of that erudite and eminent columnist of “ƒ”¹…”The Island”ƒ”š‚ Mr. Eymard de Silva Wijeyeratne. Mr.Wijeyeratne writes: “It is very likely that the Temple of Hypocrisy that is being built higher and higher like the Tower of Babel, by the […]

By Mario Perera, Kadawata I must admit being deeply affected by our cricketers snatching defeat from the jaws of probable victory. When the final team selection was announced the foreign commentators summed it all up very succinctly. They said that the strength of Sri Lanka had all along been the bowling with its quota of […]

By Mario Perera, Kadawata This is a question many are asking themselves and others on the eve of this fiercely fought out elections to local bodies, where the prize money the winners get is a miserly rupees 5000. Just a few days ago the “ƒ”¹…”Derana’ morning news analyst summed up the reasons for this frenetic […]

By Mario Perera, Kadawata ƒ”š‚ I refer to the incident which was the violent confrontation that Shaun Tait led Dilshan into at our last result less encounter with Australia. It was totally unprovoked, unwarranted and unnecessary. Yet it did happen. We saw the umpires talking it over with Tait and later with Dilshan. Dilshan was the […]

By Mario Perera, Kadawata ƒ”š‚ There was a detailed article on this subject in the Lakbima Newspaper this morning. The article begins by stating that Paba “ƒ”¹…”hogs the spotlight for all the wrong reasons’. This is not entirely true. She does take a bow and rightly so for activities in line with her talent, which is […]

Prefaceƒ”š‚  byƒ”š‚  Professor W. S. Karunatillake This book is unique in the annals of Catholic literature in Sri Lanka. It not only narrates the author’s intense spiritual odyssey towards the Catholic priesthood which eludes him when on the verge of crossing its threshold, but is also punctuated with penetrative insights regarding the Catholic Church. This […]

By Mario Perera, Kadawata ƒ”š‚ There were very interesting happenings in the recent past that merit a recap. We all know the strange behaviour of Ban Ki, that lent credence to the belief that a (mad) cow had jumped over (or better, into) Moon. Now why that happened is become crystal clear seeing that the cats […]

By Mario Perera, Kadawata ƒ”š‚ Prince Gemunu lying in foetal position on his bed said that he had been hemmed in by the Tamils and the Deep Blue Sea. This nation has always been hemmed in this manner by the Tamil separatists and the deep blue sea symbolizing the hypocritical and to that extent immoral European […]