July 27 to 29 At The National Art Gallery The Second Annual All Island Prisoners’ Art and Craft Exhibition is to be held from July 27th to 29th at the National Art Gallery, Green Path, Colombo 7. The event which is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Colombo North. Exhibiting his support towards rehabilitating prisoners, [...]
By The Incurable Romantic My friend, who is a happily married ‘incurable romantic’ told me a few days ago: “It is odd how the universe works, incompetent dumbos get jobs and witchy airheads get husbands.” I don’t think she meant this as a general statement but one has to admit that of late, many of [...]
“Stupidity has come back as a king – no; as an emperor, as a divine Führer of all Aryans.” — Aldous Huxley (Eyeless In Gaza) By Tisaranee Gunasekara Twenty Seven years ago, “Black July” burst upon Sri Lanka with the sudden ferocity of a flash flood. The omens of this bloody deluge was evident in [...]
British Tamils Call For Justice For War Crimes In Sri Lanka By Faraz Shauketaly British Tamils on Friday, July 23 embarked on a rally through London calling for justice for victims of war crimes in Sri Lanka. In an effort to appeal to the wider public and make a symbolic peaceful show of unity and [...]
By Faraz Shauketaly Do You Love Your Country? Asked Bjorn Byron from Belgium who was visiting Sri Lanka. I was quite taken aback at the suddenness of the question and I was stuck for words. “Yes” I said — I consciously said that — it was manifestly not an automatic reaction out of any mistaken [...]
By Faraz Shauketaly The sleepy village of Malwana in the Gampaha District is an unlikely place for controversy of any sort but is all set to become the background for a financial scam that has many similarities with the “Sakvithi” case. A number of commercial establishments persuaded many investors to part with their money to [...]
By D.B.S.Jeyaraj The tragic history of post-independence records that the Tamils of Sri Lanka have been subjected to mass-scale mob violence in the years 1956, 1958, 1977, 1981 and 1983. The anti-Tamil violence of July 1983 was the most terrible and horrible of them all. It remains etched in memory even after 27 years. Twenty [...]
The country’s oldest finance company, The Finance Company PLC (TFC) which recently faced a run on its deposits, expects to completely lift the strictures it has placed on withdrawals on demand in another year’s time, its director/CEO Kamal Yatawara said. TFC which currently has a mismatch of meeting its full liabilities, also has put a [...]
By Nirmala Kannangara The government’s decision to set up a Media Development Authority is an attempt to suppress the private media, a senior newspaper editor told The Sunday Leader. He opined that the government’s move to set up a Media Development Authority reeks of suppression as state intervention in any media matter would lead to [...]
The market is heavily liquid, but, paradoxically no borrowers or investors to mop up this excess, virtually forcing the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) to drain this excess liquidity though a combination of its overnight open market operations, selling CBSL securities and by US dollar-rupee swaps in order to control inflation caused by this [...]
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