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(gulfnews) A picture-perfect village was home to Prabhakaran, terror’s poster boy responsible for around 100,000 deaths
Velvettithurai: “No further,” the lance corporal says, moving his Chinese-made T56 rifle off his shoulder. He means business.
I open my arms out to show I am not a threat and plan to obey his order.
“Prabhakaran’s house,” [...]
(The Island – Right to Live By Maneka Gandhi)
The human has spent the last 2,000 years trying to better nature. In the process we have reached a point where we are the victims of our own world view.
Since we too are a species on this earth and not invaders, we [...]
(Daily Mirror) SriLankan Airlines has once again been named ‘Airline of the Year’ for its overall contribution to the country’s tourism industry at the Presidential Awards for Travel and Tourism 2009, the second successive year that the airline won this title in the country’s highest accolades for the airline, travel and [...]
(Daily News) Questions and Answers
Bank Account for pensioner
Question: I am a regular reader of your extremely valuable column. My wife is a Pensioner whose pension is credited to Savings Account at People’s Bank, Dehiwela. She has suffered a stroke and is unable to visit the Bank to withdraw money from her [...]
(TC – by Vidya Abhayagunawardena)
The ongoing debate on Sri Lanka in the Indian film world in general and the South Indian Film Industry (SIFI) in particular is intriguing and thought provoking. The just recently IIFA award festival was devoid of participation of leading film stars from India presumably on account of [...]
(The Island) Shoemakerland has just been given permission to change its name. Residents waited 23 years for this moment. The real name of the town in Rajasthan, India, had always been Kuwan Ka Cas, or Home of Wells. But a mean-spirited official from a different caste renamed it [...]
Peradeniya University – 1960 Batch Reunion:
(Daily News – by Austin Fernando)
Fifty years back a batch of 644 young men and women entered the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya. Most of them were from the sub-urban and rural areas of Ceylon. Due to the addition of Sinhala and Tamil as medium of [...]
(TC – by Upul Joseph Fernando)
Though some are waiting in expectation for the release of KP alias Kumar Pathmanathan, it was a long time since he had been released. The fact that he was freed came to light officially when he recently toured the North East along with the [...]
(The Island – by Dr. B. J. C. Perera MBBS(Ceylon), DCH(Ceylon), DCH(England), MD(Paediatrics), FRCP(Edinburgh), FRCP(London), FRCPCH(United Kingdom), FSLCPaed, FCCP, FCGP(Sri Lanka) Consultant Paediatrician)
In the normal course of events, children in their formative years, even from the time they are very small babies, learn most things by absorption of [...]
(Daily Mirror – by Gomin Dayasri) We are suddenly in the international incinerator, after successfully navigating in troubled waters during times of war, when the weather was far more cyclonic. The US State Department despatched a tomb with over 300 charges on war crimes while we snuggle to cuddle its head, [...]
(Daily News) Keynote address by Ports and Aviation Deputy Minister Rohitha Abeygunawardena at the second Forum of the Asia-Pacific Region Space Agency Forum (APRSAF) on ‘Space Application for Environment’ held on June 28 and 29 in Mount Lavinia
The natural environment is the source of human well-being, and we [...]
(TC – By The Friday Forum)
The Friday Forum is an informal gathering of public spirited persons wishing to contribute to the future development of Sri Lanka within a framework of democracy, social justice and pluralism.
The Forum brings together a diversity of expertise and viewpoints reflecting its membership consisting of academics, [...]
(The Island – by Prof. Rajeeva Wijesinghe) In writing about Somerset Maugham, whose short stories cover a range of experience, I noted that he did not aim simply at thrilling or entertaining us. That idea, somewhat dismissive of work that concentrated on just one element, has stuck with me [...]
(Daily Mirror – By Dianne Silva)
Democratic National Alliance MP Vijitha Herath spoke to the Daily Mirror about the parties intentions to educate the public on the vices of the Executive Presidency and the failures of the government’s foreign policy.
Q: The Government is thinking about constitutional reforms. What are the JVP’s concerns [...]
(Daily News – by Phillip Fernando)
US President Barack Obama meted out swift punishment to US General Stanley McChrystal who was found chronically insubordinate and meddling in civilian affairs. Strangely, US State Department failed to level with the Sri Lankan President upholding the same cherished democratic traditions when facing the allegedly [...]
(Sunday Leader – by Kusal Perera) A long time ago, there was a witty column in a Sinhala newspaper that captured the best news headlines of the week and tagged them with its own pithy comments. Today, if that column was there, some of it would go like this.
Mahinda Rajapaksa and [...]
(The Island) Paper presented by Prof. G. H. Peiris at the H. L. De Silva Commemoration Programme 23 June 2010 at the BCIS Auditorium, Colombo.
Continued from yesterday’s
Midweek Review
In the efforts to provide the ‘R2P’ with a legal garb, one of the most frequent claims made is that [...]
(Daily News – by Malinda Senevirathne) Today (as I write), June 30, I am thinking of deserts. And wells. Deserts and wells mark this day on account of two notes sent to me, the first a quote and the other a speech, the first a timeless love story and the [...]
(Daily Mirror – By Harim Peiris)
The past week was certainly a bad one for Sri Lanka from a foreign relations standpoint. Firstly Sri Lanka received the news that despite much lobbying, the UN Secretary General had proceeded with the appointment of a panel of experts to assist and advice him on [...]
Political stooges causing education breakdown -Teacher unions
(Lakbima – By Manjula Pradeep Weerasuriya)
Everyone talks about the quality drop in the education sector. But nobody talks about the grievances of teachers. Political stooges who are running the education sector are responsible for the quality drop in the education sector, teacher unions say. Henchmen of [...]
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