There is a facile truism about nations getting the politicians they deserve. We, in Sri Lanka certainly have the kind we deserve. Small-minded, cliquish, corrupt, self-serving, self-indulgent and deceitful. We should have booted them out a long time ago – but have not. As we watch the conclusion of yet another election what is evident [...]
To date the Government has not taken any action to either investigate or to take corrective measures to rectify these irregular incidents of gross misconduct by the Chairman. Also what action has been taken to inquire into the smuggling of the foreign exchange and to check on the bona fides of the Rolex Watch? Why [...]
There is NO rape. There are NO abductions. There is NO corruption. There is NO fear psychosis. The media remain – independent – unbowed and unafraid. Editors are not coerced into submission over candlelit tete-a-tetes with the President. Children as young as six and seven years old are NOT being raped. Certainly not by politicians. [...]
Nishantha Wickramasinghe – Chairman of SriLankan Airlines So, we were compelled to rely on inside sources. Not the thieves. Our ‘sources’ confided that US $ 11,500, Sterling Pounds 10,500 and one million rupees was the amount stolen from Wickramasinghe’s home in Mt. Lavinia . A Rolex Watch valued at an estimated Rs 4. million [...]
Everybody looked as if they were something out of Jurassic Park. It was probably the eerie blue lighting. As I perched myself on a chair I whispered softly to my companion on my right that she looked good. She actually did. Despite the awful lighting – perhaps because she had wisely chosen white for her [...]
Those who believe that the country’s justice system treats everyone equally is living in a fool’s paradise. This is true of all justice systems in the world. While some countries try to make it more fair than the others, the truth is that there will never be a system that is entirely fair. After all, [...]
Last week an astrologer Madura Peiris had his moment in time. Featured on a private news television station Peiris said that intellectuals, especially, writers who use their pen as a weapon, are destined to face bad times. This situation would prevail until the first week of April, he said. This is indeed a profound statement. [...]
Where are they? What happened to dozens of LTTE members who surrendered to the army together with Rev. Francis Joseph, a Catholic priest, south of the Vadduvaakal bridge on May 18 2009? “Aananthi” (not her real name), the wife of one of the disappeared, told Human Rights Watch that she saw the army load the [...]
Colombo Telegraph last week unearthed another WikiLeaks cable. According to the cable Major General Prasad Samarasinghe the former Military Spokesman and Director, Directorate of Media in the Army, has been passing highly sensitive information to the US Embassy in Colombo on a burning issue – Abductions. Many of those abducted were believed to have been [...]
Last week a story on the front page of a daily English newspaper caught my eye. Not for its content but for the sheer absurdity of such a story having made headlines on the front page of a newspaper. This was the story: Manioc stolen from Horogolla. The article went on to say that some [...]
