It is essential to raise awareness that Sri Lanka is no longer a war ravaged country.” So sayeth Minister of Sports Mahindananda Aluthgamage (MA) to explain away Rs. 336 million and Rs. 500 million spent on ‘preparation of the bid’ to host the 2018 Commonwealth Games in this fair Isle of Sri Lanker. Not one [...]
Truth to tell, Menika could not believe her eyes when she saw on TV late news of February 4, Independence Day, the brutal assault on peaceful protestors at Punchi Borella or thereabouts. She truly wondered whether the G&T tucked inside her was befuddling her brain, hazing her eyes and in short acting like a hallucination [...]
Whatever this Grouse and that Grump may say (all carrying language and/or class chips on their shoulders) the Galle Literary Festival is fine in every sense of the word. Menika makes her annual literary pilgrimage to this quaint maritime port city now bustling and alive with tourists and resident expats. She gets pleasantly satiated with [...]
Menika lurves overseas news and reads every bit she can lay her eyes on. So of late she has been following the terrible things happening in Tunisia a.k.a Carthage which as a kid she knew from prose and verse to be rich and splendrous. But the ruling family of the modern country went too far [...]
Aha! Gotch’ya! Now we know who wanted to ban mini skirts. ‘A sanctimonious humbug’ as he was labelled in last Sunday’s Leader! How did Menika get a frocked padre from the Catholic Church as the mooter of the ban. Maybe he pronounced the evils of exposing girls’ legs inches above the knee and this sanctimonious [...]
Menika starts her weekly looking back on a solemn note. Sadness there is, overridden however with admiration for the man who fearlessly used his journalistic pen. There is no coming to terms with the death of Lasantha Wickrematunge as it was when Richard de Zoysa was so callously abducted, brutally killed and dumped in the [...]
It seems to be a trait (too polite to call it a disease) among our VIPs and celebrities that they don’t seem to know when to fade away genteelly, knowing their day and popularity are long past. Well, genteel is the last word to be used with such, so Meniks changes that to sense and [...]
Rahul Says A Mouthful Jaffna students were forced to sing the National Anthem in Sinhala. Subheadline in a December 28th daily. Some kids of Vembadi Girls’ School and Jaffna Central College were selected to sing the National Anthem at the Weerasingham Hall in Jaffna in celebration of some day or another (Meniks has lost count [...]
Menika’s poor head is spinning. It is definitely not due to the extra G&T she has been imbibing in celebration of the birth of Baby Jesus in a manger with lowing cattle and all that. No! It’s all because of the mixed news items on Baka Moons’ panel of peaceful Nosey Parkers or secret-ferreting-out intruders. [...]
Menika’s old heart was warmed by the sight of the Leader of the UNP and the young ‘un who wants to oust him, stand next to each other in total amenity (at least in appearance) and wave to the cheering crowds, a jumbo gathering. Maybe Menika needs to beg pardon for pronouncing a truth which [...]
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