Looking at Sri Lankan politics and searching for a method to the madness let alone a science is no easy feat, and certainly it is beyond me; a mere armchair based channel flipper loath to immerse myself in everything but the juiciest of political gossip. But as a representative then, of the vast majority of [...]
It’s amazing how people who don’t know you or have nothing to do with you can change the way you look at life. It does nothing to them. They don’t gain or lose anything from it, but they just feel like doing something good. And they do it. On the 14th of November 2008, that [...]
Local journalists who speak out against human rights abuses fear for their lives and the world press turns a blind eye By Edward Mortimer It is now over a year since the President of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, claimed victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). But war is still being waged on [...]
Lately I’ve been hearing a lot of my friends complaining about being mistreated at events in Colombo. I’ve not come across this too often, so naturally I’m wondering what this is about. And it’s all pretty simple really; Sri Lankans aren’t used to how events are handled in other countries. For example, let’s look at [...]
Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka Sri Lanka is a sovereign state which belongs to the international system. It must safeguard its sovereignty as well as its membership of that system. Sri Lanka’s enemies have a main objective – a separate state – and two subsidiary objectives which are a prelude to the main objective. Those subsidiary objectives [...]
By Jayantha Weerasinghe Under the present leadership of the Defence Ministry the policing of the streets is looking increasingly like a military exercise. A good example is the current operation undertaken by the police to deny parking on all Colombo streets. This is not only on no parking zones but on any and every Colombo [...]
The Eclipse Of The Moon, For How Long? By Ravi Perera The on-going turmoil in front of the United Nations office in Colombo and the preceding controversy about GSP+ should tell us that those conventional views on the sovereignty of a state are now not as rigid as once believed. Whether we like it or [...]
Because it just makes sense. Let me outline my case. The current education system is mainly Government funded, and there are four main phases, being Primary (Grade 1-5), up to Ordinary Level (Grade 6-11), Advanced Level (Grade 12-13) and University. Whereas a hardcore capitalist would make the argument for complete private education, I’m more in [...]
By Tisaranee Gunasekara “…tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.” — Voltaire (Philosophical Dictionary) There is hysteria in the air. The regime and its allies are flailing at the UN and the EU, to the tune [...]
By Lakshman Seneviratne, MP – Deputy General Secretary UNP “I had mixed feelings when I read the article in The Sunday Times of 20th June 2010 by Ranil Wickremesinghe, Leader of the main Opposition United National Party written as a guest column. I was amused as to whether RW was asleep or in Mars during [...]
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