Medical consultant Dr. Militant Deshapremi looked hard at my clinical reports and then glared at me. ‘You people are killing yourselves, my country and our government,’ he barked. Am I killing people and the government? Dr. Militant Deshapremi is a dedicated patriot and a passionate supporter of the Rajapakse regime. ‘Your life style is draining [...]
Today, we bring to you a World Exclusive: Last week’s exchange of letters between Percy Mahinda and Barack Obama which reveals the extremely cordial state of relations between the two countries contrary to popular belief. Percy Mahinda’s letter TempleTrees February 28. My dear Barack, I wish to convey my very grateful thanks to you and [...]
Most Sri Lankans have a secret yearning to be a royal. This is probably because we are steeped in history with our glorified kings and queens despite all the current debates about equality, democracy, human rights etc. Only a few will admit to such secret yearnings such as the self proclaimed reincarnation of Dutu Gemunu [...]
Sududath and Nodath, two old boys of the Forward School for Backward Boys of the (Special English Crash Course) met for their monthly pow-wow at the Addi-Puddi, their usual water-hole. Sudath greeted his pal: So, so how- how? So, so how-how? What for the telling. Ha- Ho in Maho no? was Nodath’s response. (Nodath is [...]
That the ‘Law is an Ass’ is an accepted truism even by learned members of the legal profession. There are also other facts that should be realised and accepted by contemporary society: politicians are scoundrels and the masses are asses. These thoughts come to our minds when we read frequent news reports these days of [...]
“A committee is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, it wilts and dies scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in turn.” This is the demystification of that bureaucratic and political panacea for most of political and bureaucratic ills - a committee – by Northcoate Parkinson [...]
While Sri Lanka’s literati were paying their ‘salaams’ to the visiting literati and glitterati at the Galle Lit festival, our ‘Salaams’ go to a group of intrepid schoolboy actors of a school at Labuduwa, not far from Galle town, where the international literary festival was held. The school, Labuduwa Sri Dhamma Vidyalaya a ‘national school’ [...]
The usual reaction when a vehicle crashes on the road injuring and even killing others is: Hang the driver. This seems to be the response to the accident that took place on Thursday morning when a school van crashed into and oncoming bus injuring 9 children in the vehicle, some of them seriously. Certainly the [...]
A politician’s desire to be remembered is only natural. To be remembered forever would be the acme of political desires. What better way would a Sri Lankan desire be remembered than for his name be inscribed in the Mahavamsa. (The Mahavamsa we have to explain to those uninitiated in our history is the record of [...]
Nikang Kangkendiriya B.A. (Unemployed) was in a deep depression. ‘Tell me uncle, the best way of committing suicide’, he asked. How I became his uncle, I am completely unaware of, but in these days men with grey stubble on their chin and women with missing teeth keep ‘uncle-ing’ me. I let Nikang’s reference to his [...]
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