“I couldn’t kiss the lion! If I kept kissing the lion after taking wickets, I would have been a hero. I didn’t learn to do such fake display. I just…
Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Cultural Affairs and Wayamba Development and UNP MP Palitha Thewarapperuma‘s brand new Toyota Land Cruiser is now for sale. This Land Cruiser is imported from Japan with a…
Tamil Diaspora organisations have today called on the Swiss authorities to immediately detain and prevent Director of Sri Lanka’s Centre for National Intelligence, Sisira Mendis from leaving Switzerland until there is…
Ruling United National Party party member, member of the Sectoral Oversight Committee on Legal Affairs (anti-corruption) and committee member on Public Finance and current Galle District MP Wijepala Hettiarachchi has…
A Buddhist Monk from Batticaloa has threatened to kill a grama sevaka for filing several court cases against Sinhalese living in the district. Using absolute filth in Sinhala, Ampitiye Sumana, a…
Ravi Caught Openly Lying Over Vehicle Allowance Bonanza Deal For MPs
Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake was recently caught lying and attempting to mislead the public over the government’s latest decision to provide vehicle allowances to 58 Parliamentarians. In one…
Thowheed Jama’ath Condemns Wijeyadasa’s Inflammatory Speech, Responds To All Allegations Against Muslims
Sri Lanka Thowheed Jama’ath (SLTJ) organisation has today condemned the statement made in Parliament by the Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe about the Muslim community. They have also…
New Constitution: Report Of The Sub-Committee On Fundamental Rights – Full Texts In Three Languages
The Report of the Sub-committee on Fundamental Rights has been submitted to the Constitutional Assembly for its consideration with the other five sub-committees reports. According to the Prime Minister’s…
MMDA: Kandy Forum Says Reforms Needed To Enhance Social Status Of Muslim Women
While emphasizing the need to enhance the social status of Muslim women in particular, the Kandy Forum has proposes changes in the areas of minimum age for marriage,…
Sirisena Stooge Bopage Targets Derana TV
Controversial Secretary to the Ministry of Parliamentary Reforms and Mass Media Nimal Bopage, who was found guilty by COPE of multiple charges of corruption when he was the Chairman of…
TNA Accuses Swaminathan Of Influencing MPs In ArcelorMittal Deal To Build Tin Houses
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has leveled serious allegations against the Minister of Prison Reforms, Rehabilitation and Hindu Affairs D M Swaminathan of attempt to influence the TNA…
I Couldn’t Kiss The Lion – Lasith Malinga
“I couldn’t kiss the lion! If I kept kissing the lion after taking wickets, I would have been a hero. I didn’t learn to do such fake display.…
New Constitution: Centre-Periphery Relations Sub-Committee Report – Full Texts In Three Languages
The Report of the sub-committee on Centre-Periphery Relations has been submitted to the Constitutional Assembly for its consideration with the other five sub-committees reports. According to the Prime Minister’s…
Muslim Council Slams Wijeyadasa’s Inflammatory Speech, Says It Will Give Rise To More Tensions
The Muslim Council of Sri Lanka (MCSL) has strongly objected the statement made in Parliament by the Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe about the Muslim community. The minister…
Wijeyadasa Repeats Old Story In Parliament And Provokes Anti-Muslim Campaign
Instead of attempting to take genuine efforts to quell rising ethnic tensions among the Muslims and the Sinhalese in the country, Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe made a statement…
FCID Arrests Rajapaksas’ Cousin Jaliya Wickramasuriya
Cousin of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Jaliya Wickramasuriya has been arrested by Financial Crimes Investigations Division (FCID) last night for allegedly accepting a USD 245,000 commission while serving…
Muslims Condemn Abuse And Threats Against Women From Within The Community For Advocating MMDA Reforms
A cross section of Muslims have banded together to unequivocally condemn the recent threats against women activists who have been involved in recent campaigns to reform the Muslim…
New MP Vehicle Allowance Bonanza: Maithri In Point-Scoring Exercise
While expressing his concern only over the cost of taxes that the government will incur from the vehicle allowance to be granted for 58 MPs, President Maithripala Sirisena…
Tension Mounts As Batticaloa Buddhist Monk Encroaches A Private Land To Erect Temple
Police intervened once again when Batticaloa Buddhist monk Ampitiye Sumanarathana encroached into a private land where a Bo tree is and attempted to erect a Buddhist Temple. The Monk claimed…
The ‘Post War Sinhala Buddhist’ & Selective Truth Telling
By Hafeel Farisz – The recent fire at the Fashion Bug store in Pepiliyana has…
Rajapaksa & Company’s Crocodile Tears & Their Public Stripping
By Vishwamithra1984 – “It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they…
Torture (And Empathy)
By Charles Ponnuthurai Sarvan – The following arises from the furore caused by sending one…
Tamils Succeeding From Jaffna: A Star In The Dark Skies
By S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole – Outlook for Jaffna Having returned to Sri Lanka to…
Donald Trump: The Nationalist Messiah From The Wild West
By H. L. D. Mahindapala – If there is one slogan that swung the political pendulum…
Women Human Rights Defenders In Sri Lanka: Challenges
By Anushka Kahandagama – The word ‘defender’ connotes agency and strength while the word ‘victim’…
A Question Of The Arts
By Uditha Devapriya – Artistes are a self-contradictory lot. They make us happy and they…
Review Of Draft National Trade Policy
By W. D. Lakshman – Sri Lanka Association for Political Economy (SLAPE) being a body…
Inter Religious Violence Can Threaten Consensual Reforms
By Jehan Perera – The passage of the second reading of the budget by a…
Human Rights, Constitutional Reforms & Devolution In Sri Lanka
By Asoka Bandarage – Significant efforts have been taken towards reconciliation and integration of the…
Let’s Withhold Tax Payments Until MPs Pay Back Defrauded Tax On Car Permits
By Nagananda Kodituwakku – The State Minister of Finance Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena on the 25th…
Why President Mahinda Rajapaksa Should Have Heeded The Island
By Dayan Jayatilleka – “To be engaged and yet above the fray, to lead the…
Thriving In A Digital Age: Digital Currencies Pose The Biggest Challenge For Banks – Part I
By W.A Wijewardena – The Digital Age is not new or alien to the financial…
Do Not Fill ‘Grama Rajya’ With The Poison Of Ethnicity
By Dinesh Dodamgoda – The report of the Sub-Committee on Centre-Periphery Relations of the Steering…
Response To Mahinda Rajapaksa’s Grievance On Government Media Repression
By Thisuri Wanniarachchi – Honorable MP, Your new found interest in media freedom is heart-warming.…
Judicial Process Used For Tax Collection
By Somapala Gunadheera – Listening to the budget speech, I was surprised to hear a…
Media Repression Is Now A Cornerstone Of Yahapalana Policy
By Mahinda Rajapaksa – While the people’s attention remains focused on the budget and on…
Extremists Are Running This Country; Yet Again
By Lukman Harees – “The dangerous enemies of your species are fundamentalism, intolerance, separatism, extremism,…
Testing The Limits Of American Democracy
By Kumar David – Trump: Idiosyncratic harum-scarum or cunning impostor? Testing the limits of American democracy…
Election-Related Violence – Part I
By Emil van der Poorten – In a recent discussion with a friend, it dawned…
Buddhism, Sri Lankan Trump Supporters & The Pedagogy Of The Oppressed
By Thisuri Wanniarachchi – To all genuine followers of Buddhism, and everyone else who believes…
Research, Ideology & State Policy In Relation To Trincomalee
By Rajan Hoole – The Dress Rehearsal In Trincomalee – Part IV The New Bosses…
Observations On The Trump Triumph
By Izeth Hussain – Sometimes the great writers get it right when all or most…
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