Insight By Sunil Kumar for Lankaweb In a sudden and overwhelming sweep the recent past of turmoil and anguish seems to have been overcome as the JVP under Anura Kumara Dissanayaka from humble beginnings albeit a resolute campaigner who seems to have swayed the minds of an overwhelming majority has taken office as the new Executive President and his […]

Insight by Sunil Kumar For Lankaweb Monday, 11 June 2024  SJB Leader SajithPremadasa in a recent  election pledge to the people of Sri Lanka where he highlights plans to engage with India’s top 500,000 firms could be an unsubstantial proposition. While he encourages existing investors to bring friends and partners who are yet to take […]

Insight By Sunil Kumar For Lankaweb June3rd. 2024 For President Ranil Wickremesinghe who was not elected by the people of Sri Lanka but appointed by SLPP MPs to replace the ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the President now campaigning  to sustain his grip on the Nation`s leadership on the basis  that he alone stabilized the economy […]

INSIGHT BY SUNIL KUMAR MAY 31st. 2024 The Spreading  of  false narrative of ” Genocide” in Sri Lanka by Canada, particularly the Prime Minister’s office is unacceptable and never seems to stop. Spreading inaccurate propaganda about Sri Lanka continuously repeating the term Genocide which has no cognitive bearing on the truth and refers to Sri […]

Top Spin by Sunny for LankaWeb Feb.9th 2024 As the cricket world turns in Sri Lanka there is another misconceived choice which has surfaced where the Sports Minister Harin Fernando has promoted the entry of another unknown entity in international cricket who has never played for his country which is not only eyebrow-raising but mind-boggling. […]

Insight By Sunil Kumar Jan 26th 2024 There is an unwritten law that suggests:” Religious leaders should never dabble in politics” as it is not their call. Yes! there is that case of a certain Archbishop Desmond Tutu in S Africa where he too was accused of dabbling in politics with no right to do […]

Insight By Sunil Kumar (with news info – courtesy of an Info Lanka report)) Jan.24th 2024 When Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe announced that the Government would be deploying a Navy vessel to the Red Sea. Wickremesinghe pointing out that the disruption of shipping lanes in the region would lead to increased freight charges and […]

Insight by Sunil Kumar Jan.23rd. 2024 Alas ! our peaceful and tranquil Motherland Sri Lanka is suddenly being torn apart by gun violence. Yes! there are guns both legal and illegal everywhere, some in hands that have no compunction to use them readily and others who do have trepidations but still use them on various […]

Insight By Sunil Kumar Jan15th 2024 The President’s vision for Sri Lanka has certainly been recognized by the IMF and augurs well towards the future of Sri Lanka  with  Ranil Wickremasinghe at the helm with all his political savvy as the Nation emerges from the travails of the past with no thanks to past leaders […]

Top Spin By Suni Nov.11th 2023  It has finally  happened and the axe has fallen on Sri Lanka Cricket confirming everyone’s fears including the President’s that the ICC will suspend Sri Lanka’s membership. What an ignominious shame and what an insult to a country renowned for her cricketing prowess and  flair that  goes back decades […]

Top Spin by Suni (courtesy of cricinfo) Top Spin by Suni With thanks to: Shashank Kishore who is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo Oct. 27th 2023 “The entire Sri Lankan team stood together, their collective gaze fixed on the giant screen. The next moment, as the magic word “out” flashed, euphoria broke out. Sadeera Samarawickrama […]

Insight By Sunil Kumar While President Ranil Wickremasinghe insists that the Nation will maintain good relations with all countries and will take no sides he should also curb his Foreign Affairs Minister Ali Sabry from direct involvement in the ongoing conflict between India and Canada before it becomes an embarrassment to Sri Lanka straddled with […]

Insight By Sunil Kumar It seems rather high handed  and irresponsible for Former SupremeCourt Judge and MP CV Wigneshwaran of no mean repute as a troublemaker relative to Sinhala Tamil matters to make what appears to be alatent threat to the Government of Sri Lanka based on the fullimplementation of the 13th  Amendment and needs […]

Insight By Sunil Kumar for LankaWeb The realities and perils of a Land Bridge are explained for the benefit of Sri Lanka’s President and her people who can ill afford any situation as posted here. This dangerous and frightening proposal needs to be discontinued permanently. ROAD LINK BETWEEN INDIA AND SRI LANKA A BRIDGE TOO […]

Top Spin By Suni for LankaWeb  It is sad and disgusting to watch our National Cricket Team get beaten to a pulp by a team of Pakistanis who are pretty good players nonetheless but not that powerful albeit with many new players who have beaten the Sri Lankans comprehensively on their own turf which is […]

Insight By Sunil Kumar For LankaWeb If anyone is wondering how Canada’s Prime Minister Mr. Justin Trudeau suddenly became very sympathetic towards Sri Lanka Tamils and even emphasized the term ‘Genocide’ towards his parlance and coined it with what he termed the massacre of Tamils in Sri Lanka which is a downright misrepresentation of facts, […]

Insight By Sunil Kumar 25thJuly 2023 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has every right to protest incongruous statements by those without the real knowledge of what truly transpired in Sri Lanka during the three and a half decade long terrorist insurrection eventually put down by the Government Armed Forces in defense of her people and […]

Insight By Sunil Kumar  The recent proposal by  President Wickremasinghe  to approve a land bridge between Sri Lanka and India may not be beneficial to Sri Lanka from many perspectives.It could open the floodgates to many issues that have been contentious towards Sri Lanka’s National Security  in the past  and have been conscientiously kept secure […]

Insight By Sunil Kumar The events of the not too distant past relative to regime change seems to be of little or no  avail relative to Law Enforcement when it comes to the circumstances which forced then-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country. Rajapaksa, long implicated in corruption and draconian measures when he was defense […]

By Sunil Kumar The name Anandasagaree certainly does not get a stamp of approval from the Government of Sri Lanka with very valid reason hence the  recent denial of an entry Visa to Sri Lanka by the Government of Sri Lanka to Gary Anandasagaree. Canadian MP Gary Anandasagaree inasmuch as his father V Anandasagaree of […]

Insight By Sunil Kumar (with courtesy and acknowledgements to Colombo Page News Desk) A pointer towards those sources especially certain Tamil Organizations who from time continue to insist  that Sri Lanka’s history has no authentication relative to the Sinhala Race has surfaced.They have often attributed the history of Sri Lanka to myth and folklore towards […]

Sunimal Perera Montreal, Canada 14th June 20 Alas! What conventional wisdom do we see of five men in a boat all a glee for a boat ride costing a million and quarter but ignoring warnings, they’ve gone to their slaughter in a cramped up space as adventurers full of spirit and such wanderers. The pressure […]

Sunimal Perera Montreal, Canada In retrospect, the sad and sudden demise of the OceanGate Titan submersible in the dangerous swells of the Atlantic Ocean off Nova Scotia, Canada has shaken the world and left many wondering after reading the intricate details of preparation and the safety factors which do appear to have been left wanting  […]

Insight By Sunil Kumar  Travelers have suddenly become aware of a painful reality that  the “Pearl of the Indian Ocean,” also known as Sri Lanka  has a sad reputation as a terror haven in the past four decades, a sinister cohort of despots, bloodthirsty separatists known as Tamil tigers, Che Guevarists and crooked and power-drunk […]

Lankaweb Poetry Corner by Sunil Kumar In the shadows of my weary soul,  A haunting presence takes its toll. A weight upon my fragile heart,  As sadness weaves its sublime art. Like an Autumn’s fading light, emotions dimmed and veiled from sight.  A somber melody softly plays, as tears now dance in silent haze. A […]

INSIGHT BY SUNIL KUMAR The aggravating news from Canada is  that the Sri Lankan High Commission in Canada has raised objections to the erection of a monument to commemorate what the Tamil community living there calls “genocide” of Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka during the Tamil Tiger insurrection This follows in the heels of the […]

By Sunil Kumar When the President  of Sri Lanka  urges all Sri Lankans to work together to build a prosperous country free of bankruptcy and all the ills of the recent past it is an assertive call to the nation which needs to be responded to beyond conjecture or speculation. The protocols  surrounding his call […]

 Insight By Sunil Kumar  Surprisingly Canadian Prime Minister Mr.Justin Trudeau seems to have taken a  path  which his World Respected father Mr. Pierre Elliot Trudeau who was once  closely associated with Sri Lanka would never have taken by virtue of  how well informed of world affairs he was and never once dipping into  the till […]

Insight By Sunil Kumar May 15th 2023 Sri Lanka’s Political, Social and Economic issues  on a daily basis continue to a degree unabated with little emphasis on the basic rights of her citizens relative to the Constitution which is circumvented in a subtle manner despite the rhetoric from the hierarchy where state intimidation and aggression […]

Top Spin By Sunny Yes the signs are quite visible that Sri Lanka may not make it to the next Cricket World Cup  which some  analyst and more perceptive observers see possible after the  latest loss against what could be termed a second string New Zealand team where the big names of Angelo Mathews, Kusal […]