A European economic revolt is on in all its fury. Since the economic crisis that commenced in 2008, 11European leaders have fallen, the last being Nicholas Sarkozy, the President of the second biggest country in Europe last week. The Economic crisis may lead to a political revolt with countries heavily indebted to Germany and international [...]
I saw this eyebrow raising advertisement the other day trying to sell fairness cream for vaginas or, so corrects my spellchecker, vaginae. What will these ingenious Indians think of next? This led me down a train of thought that I’ve often climbed on before, but rarely sat inside until the last stop. Which was ‘Makeup [...]
US to discuss SL with India ahead of GL’s visit Sri Lanka votes against India The Mahinda Rajapaksa administration it appears will never learn from its past mistakes, especially on the diplomatic front. While scoring points on the one hand by showing some progress in post-war Sri Lanka to the EU parliamentary delegation that was [...]
It seems that, periodically, Our Beloved Leader (OBL) just to keep his minions off-balance and perhaps to send them a message that he, and only he, determines the extent of their REAL incomes, threatens them with shuffling their portfolios in a manner that could adversely affect their futures as bread-winners for their families and the [...]
So many Gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind, Is all the sad world needs -Ella Wheeler Wilcox-The World’s Need Lanka-e-News-reported last week that the Minister for Land and Land Development Janaka Bandara Tennekoon had said that a situation has arisen now where the [...]
Seneviratne: If players don’t have the time for national duty then they shouldn’t be playing domestic rugby. THE more you think about Sri Lanka’s performance in the recent A5N competition; more painful is the regret that promotion had eluded us, needlessly. A team of second-stringers did perform admirably, but, in the final analysis, to no [...]
Is there a country with even a semblance of democracy existing across the North African sub-continent or even in southern African regions south of the Maghreb or the strip that stretches from the Red Sea across the Middle East ending in Pakistan? We stand to be corrected but it does appear that democracy does not [...]
Sachin Tendulkar is the most adorable of sportsmen and indeed Indian sportsmen we have seen . He is certainly an international superstar and a cricketing god. India has thousands of gods and Sachin is among the latest and the most evoked of gods particularly when the Indian Cricket team is in dire straits. Little wonder [...]
With the odd exception, the mainstream English media has displayed a monumental gutlessness in the matter of dealing with the destruction of the rule of law in this country. Nothing short of “wondrous to behold” could describe its deafening silence or sanitized reporting as one atrocity follows another. Recently, journalists and contributors to the print [...]
Govt. Commences Fresh Probe On ACF Killings Russia And China Out Of UNHRC This Year Pressure on the Mahinda Rajapaksa government mounted last week due to several reasons. Key among them were: the clash between Muslims and Buddhists over a Muslim mosque in Dambulla, moves by French NGO Action Against Hunger (ACF) to file [...]
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