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Saudi To Be Rapped For Maid Torture »

By Ranee Mohamed in Kamburupitiya With the surgical removal of over 23 approximately 2 inch-sized nails from the body of newly returned housemaid from Saudi Arabia Lahanda Purage Ariyawathie Friday,…

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The Necessary Battle Over Presidential Term-Limits »

“Tomorrow, perhaps the future” — W.H. Auden (Spain 1937) By Tisaranee Gunasekara The charade is finally over. President Rajapaksa has informed Sri Lanka’s Micawberian opposition that he intends to remove…

Aug 29 2010 / 117 Comments / Read More »
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SLFP Celebrates 59th Anniversary (Photos) »

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The SLFP celebrated its 59th anniversary at Temple Trees yesterday (2). The President addressed over 15,000 people at the event.…

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Several UNPers To Support Amendments »

Another UNP parliamentarian pledged support to the government’s proposed constitutional amendments today (3). UNP Badulla District Lakshman Seneviratne announced his…

Sep 3 2010 / 5 Comments / Read More »

Amendments: Debate And Vote On 8 »

The party leaders have decided to hold debate and vote on the Constitutional Amendment Bill on September 8. Initially the…

Sep 3 2010 / 1 Comment / Read More »

Army To Vacate Private Lands In The North »

Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao has said the Sri Lankan government has assured that the army will return the land…

Sep 3 2010 / 3 Comments / Read More »
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Columns

Much More Mahinda »

Mahinda has got a two thirds majority in Parliament and is using it to extend his term. This is not because he was necessarily so powerful, it was more because the opposition was so weak. Mahinda told Ranil that he was going for an Executive…

Aug 31 2010 / 14 Comments / Read More »

‘Bull’, Zero Bull, ‘Infinity Bull’ And Cock And Bull »

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Jack Anderson, the controversial American columnist of the 1970s, in his work The Anderson Papers, quotes a tyrannical CEO of the notorious American corporate giant ITT addressing a meeting of ITT executives: ‘Gentlemen, I have been thinking. Bull times zero is zero bull. Bull divided…

Aug 29 2010 / 1 Comment / Read More »

Apartheid In Arugam Bay »

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The approach is simply breathtaking. And the place itself, picture perfect. But all this beauty hides the harsh reality that Arugam Bay really isn’t what it should be. Located on the long forgotten east coast of the island, Arugam Bay is world famous as a…

Aug 29 2010 / 7 Comments / Read More »

Devil In A Blue Dress »

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I am addressing this communication to the Editor of The Sunday Leader newspaper and wish to offer my comments for approval or rejection by you. It’s nothing but an absolutely shameful article under the heading “The Exodus.” You obviously belong to the new modern trend…

Aug 29 2010 / 47 Comments / Read More »

The English Speaking Elite »

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I am part of a dwindling and slightly pathetic race called the English Speaking Elite, or the  Esé. Despite filling out ‘Sinhala Buddhist’ on every police report (they ask), I cannot really speak Sinhala. If I’m under arrest it somehow comes back to me, but…

Aug 29 2010 / 64 Comments / Read More »
Editorial

Ranil And His Bullish Wiles »

The most immediate threat to Sri Lankan democracy is not the rapid monolithic build up of administrative and political power by the Rajapaksa clan, but…

Aug 29 2010 / 17 Comments / Read More »

The Guilty Are Afraid »

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There are times when one simply cannot believe the attitude of the government. It acts with an impunity never quite before seen and unlikely to…

Aug 29 2010 / 2 Comments / Read More »

IN A NUTSHELL »

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A One Way Street It’s all one way traffic these days. With the Mussalmans and  some Green types thinking of doing a high jump.  No,…

Aug 29 2010 / 3 Comments / Read More »
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Mervyn And Other Silvas

From the media we gather that Mervyn Silva has at last been booked. Looking at the past history of Mervyn Silva, it could be said that Silva took a leaf from the lamppost killings of the…

Aug 29 2010 / Read More »
Politics Mangala and Ranil and Karu

A Blocked Generational Transition

By Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka Was opposition firebrand, lawyer, karateka and pop vocalist Dayasiri Jayasekara right when he warned several weeks back that the UNP stood in danger of electoral extinction, like the Old Left in general…

Aug 29 2010 / Read More »
World 10-2

When They Choose To Leave

By Maryam Azwer On Friday August 13, the MV Sun Sea landed at a naval base in Western Canada, with 492 people on board, all of them Sri Lankan asylum seekers. Canadian authorities say they have…

Aug 29 2010 / Read More »
Features Welikada prison

Prison Expansion Underway

By Raisa Wickrematunge A new prison is being constructed in Kalutara for women and their children, and will be completed next month, according to Prisons and Rehabilitation Minister, D.E.W Gunasekara. The new prison is being built…

Aug 29 2010 / Read More »
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Place The Team Over Self

The cricket dished out at Dambulla has not caught the imagination of the market. The one-day game was meant to produce plenty of runs and a chase which is worthy. It was never designed to bore. A…

Aug 29 2010 / Read More »
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Chandika’s Ban: Punishment Bigger Than Crime

It might be premature yet for Sri Lanka Cricket to contemplate swapping a foreigner for a local to do the job of head coach. At this point in time there’s simply no homegrown coach proficient enough…

Aug 29 2010 / Read More »
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Craving Japanese? (Restaurant Review)

Japanese restaurant Sakura has been around for years. Walking into the place is a little like going back in time, as little of the place has changed, decor-wise. The rice-paper walls and bright red lanterns are…

Aug 31 2010 / Read More »
Business Rishard Bathiudeen

Govt. Cuts Export Target By 20%

The Commerce Ministry has revised downwards its export target by 20% to US$ eight billion this year, up 12.7% over last year’s export figure of US$ 7.1 billion, but down 1.2% over the 2008 export figure…

Aug 29 2010 / Read More »

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