By Fr J.C. Pieris –
Fr Chryso Pieris SJ
My money lies over the ocean
My money lies over the sea,
My money lies over the ocean,
Oh bring back my money to me.
Bring back, bring back,
Oh bring back my money to me, to me,
Bring back, bring back,
Oh bring back my money to me.
(Adapted from a scout song)
The above is not a joyful song of Lanka but a sad and desperate cry of our dear Mother Lanka. Who listens to her? Only sincere patriots, the legitimate children of Mother Lanka; Workers, domestic and otherwise in the Middle East, South Korea, Japan, Israel, Italy and other EU countries, mercenaries in Russia and so on.
Who are the deaf who do not hear her? They are the betraying bastards of Mother Lanka. Some of them are foreigners. Some have not done anything illegal but their earnings from exporting locally manufactured goods and other local produce like coconut rubber and tea have been kept in other countries without bringing the profits back home. It was the wealth produced by the sweat and tears of the people of Sri Lanka that is, in a way, robbed and sent abroad. That wealth belongs to Mother Lanka. The rest are those who accumulated criminal wealth through commissions and bribes from international companies and tycoons. But those firms and companies passed on the financial burden to the Sri Lankans. The Auditor General said that of the 8 billion we received from abroad for development, only work done for 2 billion can be accounted for. What happened to the 6 billion? Only the previous governments can answer that question. They bled the country to bankruptcy. They have committed matricide. They are parasites that suck the bloody wealth of the poor of Sri Lanka.
Thanks to International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, (The ICIJ is a global network of more than 290 investigative journalists in 105 countries who collaborate on in-depth investigative stories.) we know the names of most of these bastards. For your information I have collected them from the three famous (or notorious) papers; Pandora Paradise and Panama; And from Times Online SL and Colombo Telegraph But, I am sure there are many more not mentioned in these papers. Here are the known names; some of them may be repeated in more than one Paper.
served as secretary to Sri Lanka’s finance ministers under President Ranasighe Premadasa from 1989 to 1993, then under Dingiri Wijetunda until 1994. In his implication in the Pandora Papers, the ICIJ found a trust set up by Paskaralingam in the British Virgin Islands, through Trident Trust. According to the investigation, the trust was set up as a form of “succession planning” and according to documents, his occupation was listed as “retired” along with himself and other family members listed as beneficiaries. The trust owned two companies, one based in the British Virgin Islands and one in Singapore, and held shares in the Horizon College of Business Technology (HCBT), a vocational college in the eastern part of Sri Lanka’s capital city of Colombo.
served as a deputy minister of water supply and drainage in Parliament from 2010 to 2015 and is also a cousin of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the current president of Sri Lanka. Along with her husband, Thirukumar Nadesan, she controlled a shell company used to buy luxury apartments in London and Sydney and to make other investments. Working as a consultant and hotel entrepreneur, Nadesan used shell companies set up in secrecy jurisdictions to gain consulting contracts with companies working with the government and to buy artwork. In one instance, Nadesan used a shell company, Pacific Commodities, to transfer 31 paintings and other South Asian artwork to Geneva Freeport, a warehouse where assets are not subject to taxes or duties.
Thirukumar Nadesan
The owner of “Goddess Lakshmi,” and the artworks in transit with it, as recorded on the packing slip, was a Samoan-registered shell company with an unremarkable name, Pacific Commodities Ltd. But a cache of leaked documents from Asiaciti Trust, a Singapore-based financial services provider, indicates that a politically connected Sri Lankan, Thirukumar Nadesan, secretly controls the company and thus is the true owner of the 31 pieces of art. His wife, Nirupama Rajapaksa, is a former member of Sri Lanka’s Parliament and a scion of the powerful Rajapaksa clan, which has dominated the Indian Ocean island nation’s politics for decades.
Rajapakse Family
Sri Lanka’s president is Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Nirupama Rajapaksa’s late father was his cousin. The president’s older brother, Mahinda Rajapaksa, is prime minister. Human rights groups have accused the brothers of war crimes. Former government officials have alleged that the family has amassed a multibillion-dollar fortune and hidden part of it in bank accounts in Dubai, Seychelles and St. Martin. At least eight family members and loyalists have been investigated by authorities and some have been charged with crimes including fraud, corruption and embezzlement, according to media reports.
The Supreme Court Judgement
In a landmark ruling in November 2023, the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka found several members of the Rajapaksa family and top officials guilty of mishandling the economy and violating the public trust, actions which directly contributed to the country’s severe economic crisis and subsequent bankruptcy.
The court’s decision was a majority verdict (4-1) on fundamental rights petitions filed by civil rights activists and academics. The key figures held responsible include:
* Gotabaya Rajapaksa, former President
* Mahinda Rajapaksa, former Prime Minister and President
* Basil Rajapaksa, former Finance Minister
* Ajith Nivard Cabraal and Prof. W.D. Lakshman, former Central Bank Governors
The court determined their actions and inactions, such as a massive tax cut in 2019, the delay in seeking assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the artificial maintenance of the exchange rate, led to a foreign currency shortage and the nation’s economic collapse. The ruling was considered symbolic, as the petitioners did not seek personal financial compensation, but rather justice in the public interest. The respondents were ordered to pay a nominal sum of legal costs to the petitioners.
The judgment has paved the way for further legal action, with calls from civil activists and some lawmakers for criminal trials and efforts to recover allegedly stolen state assets. Several family members also face ongoing investigations and charges related to corruption and money laundering.
Tiran Alles
Aug 16, 2016, Times Online SL Businessman Tiran Christopher Alles and one time Tiger guerrilla fund raiser Emil Kanthan are among four persons whom the Attorney General has filed indictments before the Colombo High Court for alleged fraud.
Others indicted in the case, due before High Courts on September 24 are Rohan Saliya Abeysinghe Weerawickremasuriya Jayantha Dias Samarasinghe.
The four suspects will be charged for misappropriation of public funds and criminal breach of trust under the Public Property Act. They are alleged to have conspired to misappropriate state funds amounting to Rs 200 million from the state backed Reconstruction and Development Agency (RADA). The money to construct 800 housing units in Trincomalee and Batticaloa as part of a project called Jayalanka had been allegedly misappropriated.
The four will also be charged with criminal breach of trust of a sum of Rs 124,837,990.50 (over Rs 124 million) allocated to build 800 housing units in the two districts also as part of the Jayalanka Project. These funds are also alleged to have been misappropriated.
Pandora Papers
There are 35 names on the Pandora Papers; ‘Nirupama Rajapaksa (represented by her husband’s name), Arjun Aloysius, Ravi Karunanayake, D.M Jayaratne, Sajin Vaas Gunawardena, Buddy Wettasinghe, Sirisena Cooray, Dudley Sirisena, Rohan Pallewatta, Samarasinghe Arachchige Madush Lakshitha (Makandure Madush), Gampola Vidanelage Saman Kumara (Wele Suda), Bimal Ratnayake, Krrishmal Warnasuriya (Lawyer), Anoma Gamage (Daya Group business), Rauf Hakeem, A.H.M. Fowzie, Vijayakala Maheswaran, Ali Zaheer Moulana, S. B. Navinna, Karunaratne Paranavithana, Velusamy Radhakrishnan, Samadara Ranatunga, Hema Premadasa, Malik Samarawickrema, Sujatha Senaratne, Kavan Perera, Rohan Perera, Mavai Senathirajah, S. Yogeshwaran, Ajith Devasurendra, R. Rajamahendran and Jaya Sri Ranga.’
Panama Papers
Yapa Hetti Pathirannahalage Nissanka Yapa Senadhiathi – Avant Garde Pte Ltd
Y H P Kithsiri Manjula Kumara Yapa – Avant Garde Pte Ltd
Senerath Bandara Dissanayake – Avant Garde Pte Ltd
Prasanna Athanasius Sirimevan Rajaratne – Avant Garde Pte Ltd
Kenneth John Pendigrast – PASKEVILLE TRADING LTD
Kenneth John Pendigrast – SCATOLA FINANCE LTD.
Mohamed Siddeek Mohamed Ali – KALIN INTERNATIONAL COMPANY LIMITED
Mohamed Siddeek Mohamed Ali – KALIN INTERNATIONAL COMPANY LIMITED
Min Xuan – LENZSKI INTERNATIONAL LTD.
Jayakody Arachchige Dona Marian Srini Pamela Jayakody– GRAND RISE INDUSTRY LTD
Jayakody Arachchige Dona Martin Srini Pamela Jayakody – Lucky Stone Indus Ltd.
Palavinnege Sumith Cumaranatunga – EMPIRE STAR HOLDINGS LTD.
Tristan Laurens Bernard – Hotel IQ International Ltd.
Nicola Dawn Hakansson – NETWORK LIMITED
Michael Robert Nasmyth MacPherson – KACHINE LIMITED
Aroon Hirdaramani – Brown International Limited
Mona Hirdaramani and Aroon Hirdaramani as Joints tenants with Rights of Survivorship – STONECROFT INVESTMENTS INC.
Arun Prakash Mahtani – PASSION CHINA LIMITED
Mukesh Khubchand – ADVANI INVESTMENTS LIMITED
NG Yin Peng – GENIUS.COM LTD.
Simon Finch – BEST CHEERS LIMITED
Christopher Rohan Martin -Trump Trading Limited (https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/sri-lankans-in-panama-papers-full-list/)
Paradise Papers
(https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers?c=LKA&d=ma)
Open and shut cases
Apart from these people there are some open and shut cases that are getting old and slowly forgotten like the Bond Scam and the Sugar Scam. Why the AG’s department is so slow to attend to these open and shut cases is a mystery.
STAR (Stolen Assets Recovery)
StAR was launched by the World Bank and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to facilitate the return of stolen assets and put an end to safe havens for corrupt funds. Thanks to the NPP government and AKD, our president, we have begun the process.
Key components of Sri Lanka’s initiative
Proceeds of Crime Act: This landmark legislation, passed in April 2025, provides a comprehensive legal framework for asset recovery, including assets derived from unlawful activities.
StAR Initiative partnership: Sri Lanka continues to benefit from the StAR Initiative, which helps countries develop and implement asset recovery strategies through technical assistance and capacity building.
New authorities: The act establishes new bodies to manage asset recovery:
Proceeds of Crime Investigation Division (PCID): Within the police, it is responsible for investigating and seizing assets.
Proceeds of Crime Management Authority (PCMA): Responsible for the preservation, management, and potential compensation from recovered assets.
Non-conviction based forfeiture: This significant feature allows for the seizure of assets even without a criminal conviction, which is crucial to prevent assets from disappearing during lengthy legal processes.
Increased investigative powers: The new law grants significant power to investigators to freeze property and obtain court orders to prevent assets from being transferred or deteriorating while legal processes are underway.
Complementary legislation: The initiative works alongside other anti-corruption laws, such as the Anti-Money Laundering Act and the Anti-Corruption Act, to create a broader framework for fighting financial crime.
Only AKD/NPP can do this
It is like plucking feathers from a tortoise to expect any other political party to attend to this task sincerely and forthrightly. STAR is not easy. It is going to take years. For the money trail fades away fast and keep the pelf mobile from one criminal haven to another. What with criminal countries like Switzerland and some dirty small countries like British Virgin Islands, Seychelles etc. helping international crooks to hide the blood-money, the task gets more and more difficult.
They also say “set a thief to catch a thief”. We are up against international criminals and crooked countries. The underworld and mafias will have methods of recovery that are fast and sure. Of course, I know AKD/NPP will not approve of such methods. But I am tempted to expose a few such methods. Abduct a family member and give them one month to return the cash or ……….! There are other more gruesome methods. Ask Kehelbaddara Padme.
What I cannot stomach is that we allow these insects full freedom to do politics and we feed them (Even their birthday parties are paid by the President’s Fund.) protect them and give them pensions. After getting the loot, as punishment, if we cannot hang them, we should at least exile these traitors as they are a liability and could betray Mother Lanka again and again.
Champa / November 17, 2025
Fr Chryso Pieris SJ
You have forgotten to add former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen who still owes the government the total cost of replanting 2,000 hectares he illegally cleared in the Kallaru Forest Reserve. Replanting in a dry zone area is more expensive than in a wet zone area which means that he owes the government a minimum Rs. 4 billion!!!!!!
Kallaru (the original name “Gal Aara” – rocky stream) Forest Reserve and Wildlìfe Sanctuary is a part of the “Wilpattuwa” (the Region of Lakes) Forest Complex in Sri Lanka. The tree canopies in many areas in the reserve are as high as 20 to 30 metres! Kallaru Forest Reserve is also home to valuable timber trees endemic to Sri Lanka, such as, Satin (Burutha), Ebony (Kaluwara), Ceyĺon Ironwood (Palu), Hazelnut (Weera), and Tall Chaste Tree (Milla).
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Rohan25 / November 17, 2025
Rubbish Kallaru is the original name and is a pure Tamil word meaning ‘rocky stream’. Sinhalese extremists are now, as usual, trying to distort ancient Tamil names, and there is no such Sinhalese word called Gal Aara. Most probably coined by you. For your information, the Sinhalese word for stone or rock, Gal, is derived from the Tamil word Kal, meaning stone or rock. Aru is a pure Tamil word meaning ‘river’ or ‘brook’. I have never heard of a Sinhalese using the word Aara for river or brook. They used the word Oya, which again is derived from the Tamil word uyavai, meaning brook, forest stream or Oodai, meaning a large water stream or dam or Channel. Stop lying
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Rohan25 / November 17, 2025
However, I agree with you in the case of Rishad, he and many powerful Colombo-based Muslim individuals and organisations and also powerful Muslim politicians and fanatics in the east, were trying to use the expulsion of Muslim civilians in the north to their benefit, after the defeat of the LTTE in 2009 and the then Rajapakse regime were also deliberately aiding and abetting them, as usual using these fake Arab, immigrant South Indian Tamil converts to Islam, as a tool and a weapon to marginalise the island’s native Tamils. Only around 54000 to 62000 the most were chased away from the north, and 90% of them were from the Mannar region, largely living in Mannar island and the coastal regions adjoining, and some were wealthy, but most were dirt poor and did not own anything land or farms. Lands are still largely owned by Tamils.
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Rohan25 / November 17, 2025
Only around 54000 to 62000 the most were chased away from the north, and 90% of them were from the Mannar region, largely living in Mannar island and the coastal regions adjoining, and some were wealthy, but most were dirt poor and did not own anything land or farms. Lands still largely owned by Tamils. However, they went around canvassing and lying and deliberately giving false information and statistics that around 300000 to 400000 Muslim civilians were ethnically cleansed from the north, and they owned lots of lands and farms, which they never did, and they need to be settled in . claiming huge swathes of the Vanni from Mannar to Mullaitheevu as historic Muslim areas( sic), all strategic coastal areas and land areas overlooking India and were busy obtaining funds to settle these Muslims from certain Gulf states and from Pokistan.
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Rohan25 / November 17, 2025
Around 54000 were sent out, and within 13 years, it had multiplied to 300000-40000,0, and they were even busy lying to any western embassies trying to get their help to settle these fake Muslim refugees, who had nothing to do with the north, mostly landless and poor Muslim peasants from the south and even some from overseas with fake documentation, to settle in large areas in the north with the intention of claiming an Islamic homeland covering 90% of the Vanni and the entie east for their immigrant fake Arab South Indian Tamil Islamic converted community, that arrived on the island a few centuries ago as refugees from South India most during the early British colonial era, claiming to be Tamil. The Rajapakses and other Sinhalese racists encouraged, and Rishad was successful to some extent. It was only after April 2019 that the Sinhalese realised what they were playing with the real intention of most of these Muslims.
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Rohan25 / November 17, 2025
he Tamils have an ancient history on the island and a homeland were fighting for their just rights from state-sponsored Sinhalese racism, which the writer conveniently ignores, however these fake Arab immigrant South Indian Tamil Muslims who started to arrive on the island a few centuries ago as refugees from South India to the Tamil parts of the island claiming to be Tamil and as immigrants and traders during the early British colonial era, have right to practice their religion and live in dignity and peace as equal citizens but have no ancient history on the island, a history of ruling lands or a claim to any homeland, especially Tamil lands, where they arrived first claiming to be Tamil and now denying this fact for political and economic benefits and trying to steal it with Sinhalese state help claiming to be Arab. If they are Arabs, they should claim a fake Arab Islamic homeland in the Arabian Gulf; why try to steal Tamil people’s lands and wildlife reserves? Arab and the Arabic language culture. Dress forms have no ancient history or claim to this island. It is alien. Just because your South Indian Tamil ancestors converted to Islam and a very small minority of you have a little bit of Arab does not mean you are Arab. What sort of logic is this?
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SJ / November 17, 2025
“fake Arab immigrant blah blah blah”
Here goes Champa’s mirror image
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SJ / November 17, 2025
“Kallaru (the original name “Gal Aara” – rocky stream) “
Your bigotry seems to get the better of any sense you may have.
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The region concerned is in the NP and predominantly Tamil/Muslim populated.
What evidence do you have for its being originally Gal Aara?
Is Aara a Sinhalese term that became Aaru in Tamil?
Such utterances make your frequent anti-imperialist utterances very suspect.
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Champa / November 18, 2025
SJ
Oh, it is very easy to prove because we have written evidence of the original Sinhala village names.
Our historical Sinhalese “Kadayim Poth” (boundary manuscripts written on palm leaves) provides meticulous details of boundaries of our Sinhalese kingdoms, regions, administrative divisions, villages and land demarcations.
Then, there are our ancient books called “Viththi Poth” (event manuscripts written on palm leaves) where all important events occurred across the country have been documented.
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LankaScot / November 18, 2025
Hello Champa,
“Oh, it is very easy to prove because we have written evidence of the original Sinhala village names”
Then show us where we can find these written Records, Time Periods and what Language they are written in.
Here is a 14th Century copy of the Claudius Ptolemy Map of Taprobane, created in 139 AD.. I notice a town and island both called “Nagadiba”
The dedication in Latin roughly translates to “Before Taprobane there are islands which you can see, and which are unknown in number, these are they”. You can see where the Mahawelli Ganga enters the sea on the East Coast.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ptolemy%27s_Taprobana.jpg
What language are the names of the towns and areas that you can decipher written in?
Best regards
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Jit / November 19, 2025
LS, this reply I wrote was for your comment in that already closed article, but well justified here too, so I’d reassign it here. When a fossil or artifact is unearthed, archaeologists turn to science to determine its age. Specialists such as Geo-chronologists, apply radiocarbon analysis to establish timelines with near precision.
Yet, once the scientific process concludes, politics often enters the picture. Archaeologists interpret discoveries through the lens of historical narratives. The challenge is that written history itself is not always reliable as it can be shaped by imagination, bias, or deliberate fabrication. Texts such as the Mahavamsa, Sangam or the Ramayana illustrate how myth and history can ‘cleverly’ intertwine.
What quite often happened in Sri Lanka was archaeologists, influenced by their ethnic, or religious perspectives, construct narratives around their findings. This practice has distorted the past and fueled divisions. In Sri Lanka, such interpretations contributed to tensions between Sinhalese and Tamil communities quite often, undermining ethnic harmony. That negative outcome has no limits when you can clearly see it even in this forum itself, as all these people with high academic qualifications get into ugly dog fights over ancient fossils and bricks!!
That was the essence of my argument. While science seeks truth, human interpretation bend it, and when history is politicized, it becomes deeply damaging and create societal fractures instead of fostering unity.
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LankaScot / November 19, 2025
Hello Jit,
I agree with what you have outlined above. It is incumbent on all of us to be aware of when any so-called Archaeologist embellishes, distorts or tells lies about an Archaeological Report’s findings. I know it is very difficult for many of us to point out where Archaeologists have doctored or lied about the Evidence, when we don’t have the Training or Knowledge. But this is where Peer Reviews come in. I would like to suggest that if a Paper or Report has NOT been Peer Reviewed, then we should not give it much credence.
However in Sri Lanka the protection of the Country’s Heritage is woeful –
“Lanka’s heritage protection reduced to just one cop”
https://island.lk/lankas-heritage-protection-reduced-to-just-one-cop/
Best regards
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Champa / November 19, 2025
LankaScot
Sinhalese “Kadayim Poth” (Boundary Books) and “Viththi Poth” (Event Books) are written in the Sinhala language. You can find them in university libraries, the Department of Archives and Buddhist temple libraries.
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SJ / November 20, 2025
Stop cheating.
Give the relevant pages and book titles on which your evidence is recorded, the way any honest researcher would.
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LankaScot / November 20, 2025
Hello SJ,
I have found 2 significant Contributions to Champa’s “Kadayim Poth” (Boundary Books) and “Viththi Poth” (Event Books). One is on Medieval Feudal society in Matale and the other is from a 1928 Lecture by Edmund Reimers on Feudalism in Ceylon, followed by W. A. de Silva on the Economic and Social Organisation in Early Times.
They are heavy going but mostly about the 13th Centuries onwards, so hopefully Champa will come up with her Evidence.
Best regards
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old codger / November 18, 2025
Champa dear,
In case you have forgotten, I am still waiting for your page number from Baldaeus, where he states that the population of Jaffna was brought from Kerala by the Dutch.
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Native Vedda / November 18, 2025
old codger
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” …………………………..your page number from Baldaeus, where he states that the population of Jaffna was brought from Kerala by the Dutch.”
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I believe she misquoted the reference, I think it must from be H.L.D. Mahindapala’s Vellala Mahathmiyam.
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SJ / November 18, 2025
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Many Sinhala family names suggest Kerala origins, and many toddy tappers came in from Kerala as they were highly experienced with coconut trees.
They integrated with the natives.
Prof Illeperuma told me once that five Malayali brothers (including one of his ancestors) with name ending in peruma(l) settled in this country.
I wonder what fraction of the gene pool of Champa is truly traceable to a lion. It cannot be a large fraction, since, generally, the bigger the alien component the greater the urge to asserts on racial purity.
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old codger / November 19, 2025
SJ,
“”I wonder what fraction of the gene pool of Champa is truly traceable to a lion. “
I guess that would depend on how long and how bushy her tail is.
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Mallaiyuran / November 20, 2025
Champawati is regarded as an eminent archaeologist and linguist, whose contributions are often linked to the influence of Buddhist traditions and interpretations of the 6th-century Mahavamsa. But you are just sitting there and throwing “Aval to the mouth of a UOJ Shakespeare” for chewing. Please stop it. The name Permal is known as a Tamil term for Krishna, and it may also be used by Keralites. Perumal has been revered in Pirapanthams (4000) by third-century Tamil sages such as Periyalvar, as documented in Tamil literary works. Although Perumal is frequently identified with Krishna in various traditions, references to Perumal can be found throughout Thevarams (hymns from the third to seventh centuries) dedicated to Shiva. There appears to be some misunderstanding regarding the origins of names like Ilperumma, which are associated with Malayalam—a language that developed after the 12th century—while Perumal features prominently in the names of historic Tamil kings too. Chenpaka Perumal is a Tamil king ruled Kotte and Jaffna (14th or 15th Century period). He was a son of a Tamil Karava General and a High Caste Sinhala lady. “Chenpaka” is a prefix frequently found in Tamil Kings’ name, though it appears it has nothing to do with their dynasty.
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Mallaiyuran / November 20, 2025
Chenpaka Pandyan is the king who pleaded with Shiva to bring back Nakerar, (the chief poet in the Tamil Sangam of the same King’s Sangam court) who crudely argued with Shiva. Once shiva brought him back, requested Ahastyar, to teach him better Tamil. Nakerar, learning from Ahastyar, the purpose and the tur meaning of Tamils, quit the King’s Sangam (because he was enlightened by Ahastyar; – Ahastyar was not a UOJ Sadampi, arranged by Badiyudeen to teach A B C to kids.) and went out to Lord Chanmuga’s temples and composed Tirumurukāṟṟuppaṭai, probably the first, full work on Lord Muruga. These days Sadampi has no teeth even to pronounce Tirumurukāṟṟuppaṭai, the book’s title, reading that Tamil is in the other world, probably.
The term “Perumal” signifies respect and greatness, derived from the root word “Periya,” which connects etymologically to Brahma. “Periyavaal” is also the title given to one of the spiritual leaders of Kaanchi, established by Sankara Swamikal. In later periods, Tamil scholars extended the meaning of “Periya” with “Piramaandam,” signifying “greatness” and indicating concepts such as the universe or cosmos. It is important to approach the interpretation of historical names with scholarly rigor and avoid casual assumptions based solely on online searches. Anybody wants to debate the Tamils and its work, I like that. But first learn the context of why their legends are there.
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Mallaiyuran / November 20, 2025
UOJ Pundits themselves accepted they did not learn even math or Engineering in London, because the professors have not professionally learned those subjects. Even Shakespeare cannot come anywhere near to these stories. Now, he is teaching Karlmarxism and Malayalam in CT. Sava, Sava! Whom to tell this!
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SJ / November 18, 2025
How Sinhaese are the Sinhala village names? How ancient are they and their names?
What is the source word for Kandayam?
You tried a fast one with Kallaru and got trapped.
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You come out as rotten as some of the Tamil bigots here.
Kindly do some serious research before giving everything a SB colour at will.
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Native Vedda / November 18, 2025
Champa
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“Our historical Sinhalese “Kadayim Poth” (boundary manuscripts written on palm leaves) provides meticulous details of boundaries of our Sinhalese kingdoms, ….. “
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How far back can you go?
Three visits of the Buddha, Vijaya’s arrival with his goon mates, ….. or birth and death of Balangoda Man, …… Rama’s monkey engineers built the bridge across Palk Strait, …. engaging in friendly swashbuckling adventures with the tourists Pandya, Chola countries from South India,, …. Maghrebi Muslim traveller’s arrival, ….
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Champa / November 17, 2025
How much money Rishad Bathiudeen may have earned from selling the valuable timber of the Kallaru Forest Reserve he illegally cleared in partnership with Basil Rajapaksa?
Let’s do the math.
The number of hectares he cleared = 2,000
The number of mature trees would have been in 2,000 hectares = 2,000,000 to 5,000,000
The value of timber per a mature tree = at least Rs. 20,000
The money Bathiudeen may have earned from selling timber from the Kallaru Forest Reserve = 2,000,000 X 20,000 = Rs. 40 billion
In its verdict, the Appeal Court did not even consider the damage that Bathiudeen caused to the wildlife habitats and archaeological sites in the illegally cleared 2,000 hectares in the Kallaru Forest Reserve and Wildlife Sanctuary. The Courts even failed to secure the meagre penalty they imposed on him.
The Kallaru issue warrants Sri Lanka to introduce severe punishments for environmental crimes as penalties are not sufficient for deterring such illegal acts.
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Native Vedda / November 19, 2025
Champa
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” How much money Rishad Bathiudeen may have earned from selling the valuable timber of the Kallaru Forest Reserve he illegally cleared in partnership with Basil Rajapaksa”
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I have no idea.
No idea.
However do you know how much money Kaputa Basil earned from A to Z, including many many tonnes of used copper shells he sold to Japan after the end of the war?
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Champa / November 17, 2025
Rohan25
There is nothing uncommon about the Sinhala word “Gal Aara”. For example, the meaning of “Gal Aara Amuna” is an anicut built across a rocky stream. Then, there is the famous “Maha Wil Aara”.
I stand by what I said. The original name of Kallaru is the Sinhala name “Gal Aara”.
Tamils have difficulty pronouncing the letter G. So, they pronounce “Gal” as “Kal”. They also pronounce P as B. Take Champa for an example. Tamils pronounce ChamPa as ChamBa.
I can give more examples. Tamils pronounce the Sinhala name “Gal Liyedda” as “Kalliyadi”. “Gal Amuna” as “Kalmunai”. “Gal Oya Handiya” as “Kaloya Sandi”. “Gal Thudawa” as “Kalkudah”.
All the original village names in the North and East of Sri Lanka are Sinhala names. What the Tamils did was, change the ancient Sinhala village names into Tamil names by adding Ks, Bs, Vs, Ems and Ens to the beginning and end of Sinhala village names in the North and East and called it their “homeland”.
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Rohan25 / November 17, 2025
Really! First of all, there are no harsh or gurreral sounds in the Tamil language, so Tamils, so if there is a B sound in Tamil and they usually pronounce B as P and not the other way around. Go and tell your lies and fairy tales to others, and you are making a fool of yourself with your lies. The Sinhalese word for stone or rock, like many Sinhalese words, is derived from Tamil Kal or Kallu. Sinhalese is basically Tamil that got highly corrupted and adulterated with the Prakrit and Pali Languages that arrived on the island with a few hundred Immigrants from somewhere in northern India, but more so with the arrival of Buddhism and the Pali language that came with it, just like Malayalam is basically Tamil that got highly adulterated with Sanskrit. Around 30% of Sinhalese vocabulary is derived from Tamil, and not the other way around. I do not say this, but renowned and respected Sinhalese linguists, historians, archaeologists and anthropologists. Please read what they wrote and not listen to your local semi-literate Buddhist monk, politician and Sinhalese extremists or fake archaeologist Chimba. Hope I have pronounced it correctly. I suppose even Tamils in South India and other Dravidians borrowed these words from Sinhalese (Sic)
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SJ / November 18, 2025
“there are no harsh or gurreral sounds in the Tamil language”
Seriously?
Tamil has to guttral sounds?
FYI
The sounds /k/ and /g/ are considered guttural consonants.
Think about it– that is when you can think.
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Mallaiyuran / November 20, 2025
The letter “K” is often discussed in linguistic comparisons, but it is important to recognize that its pronunciation varies significantly between languages. In English, which is not a phonetic language, the pronunciation of “K” can be unpredictable and does not consistently adhere to a set pattern. By contrast, Tamil is a phonetic language, though it has some unique features and certain deficits in its sound inventory.
In Tamil, all consonants, including “K”, follow a single, unified grammatical rule regarding their behavior within words. The pronunciation of “Kaana,” for instance, is smoothed depending on its position within a word. Tamil was specifically developed to avoid the use of the throat in producing consonant sounds, making the articulation of consonants distinct from many other languages. This phonetic characteristic can make it challenging for speakers of other languages to master Tamil pronunciation, especially because the consonants are designed to dodge or soften short sounds.
Another point to consider is that Tamil is not derived from a written alphabet in the way many modern languages are. Instead, Tamil originates from the spoken words of people thousands of years ago. Legendary scholars such as Agastya and Tholkappiyar are credited with shaping the language and its rules, ensuring that throat stress is minimized or eliminated entirely in spoken Tamil. For example, attempting to pronounce the name “Tholkappiyar” reveals how the “K” sound is employed without throat stress.
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Mallaiyuran / November 20, 2025
Tamil also does not include the letter “G” in its script or phonology. It is essential to understand that in Tamil, the written letter, its sound, and its shape are distinct entities. Attempting to capture a single instance of a sound with a letter can only approximate the true spoken form. Ultimately, Tamil instructs speakers to use the most natural, primitive sound that would have existed 5,000 years ago in that specific position within a word. Remember, Tamil does not use phonetic character to guide sounds, it is well understood even by the uneducated user, speaking perfectly from how his/her mother was using it.
All consonants adjust their sound to reproduce how the spoken language was 5,000 years ago. It is not completely depicted by the shape of the letter. That grammar is taught for kids at Arivari. Too late for you to go to Arivari (Kindergarten), which you widely, rudely resisted. Now, don’t keep struggling for nothing with google.
There is a unique balance achieved with sound grammar between the language that was spoken 5,000 years ago and the alphabet developed 3,000 years later. Kaana is not the letter “K”; neither Kaana is not the sound “ka”. Learn the grammar behind how to use “Kaana” and come back, then we see if you Google only Tamil ignorant, knows something more than others.
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Rohan25 / November 17, 2025
There is no recorded history anywhere, even in your Mahavamsa fable of Sinhalese inhabiting the north and east and fleeing or deserting these areas in droves, with invading Tamils from South India coming and taking over these lands. On the contrary, they only deserted the Anuradhapura and Polonaruwa areas and moved further south, west and to the central parts of the island. Sinhalese have never inhabited the northeast or the coastal northwestern area until very recently. More than 90% of the so-called Tamil invaders and immigrants to the island assimilated into the Singhalese identity, and most of your kings and aristocracy are from these South Indian invaders and immigrants. Around half the present-day Sinhalese population, both low and high born, are largely descended from post 15TH century Tamil immigrants from South India. Most probably you, definitely the cross-dressing Cardinal, 99% of your politicians and Mahanayakes, the grandma from USA and many others, all now busy beating the anti-Tamil Drum and the Sinhalese Aryan myth.
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Rohan25 / November 17, 2025
The population in the north and east largely did not convert to Buddhism, so they maintained their ancient Tamil identity, even the ones who converted and later reconverted back to Saivaism. Even your Mahavamsa anti-Tamil diatribe and fairy tale constantly refers to the north and east of the island as Tamil lands. Sinhalese never lived in the north or east other than in the peripheries, but there is enough and more evidence of Tamils living in the south, west and central parts of the island from ancient times, and most of them have now assimilated as Sinhalese. Even the east was pure Tamil and never lost its Tamil character or history, even when, after the fall of the Jaffna kingdom, it came under the loose control of the Tamil-Sinhalese kings of Kandy, for a short period. The Tamils of the east and their Vannmai Chiefdoms saw no problem with this, as they considered the king of Kandy to be a Tamil Hindu, which he really was, and he dealt with them in Tamil and patronised Hinduism in these regions. It is because of the ancient pre-Buddhist Dravidian Yakka and other ancient Tamil settlements down south, that you see many Tamil names now Sinhalised down south and not the other way around, especially along the western and southern littorals.
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Rohan25 / November 17, 2025
The Anuradhapura area was the most northern periphery of ancient Sinhalese habitation, and Polonaruwa was the most eastern part of their ancient habitation; and they hardly went further north or east of these areas, as these were all inhabited by Tamils. So most probably, when they say we fled the north and east, it is not the actual north and east of the island, as they never lived there, but their most northern and eastern parts of the island, where they largely lived and inhabited during ancient times and then fled further south and to the west around the 12th Century, areas to which they were gradually moving, just like the way Tamils living in the Anuradhaoura and Polonaruwa areas moved further north and east to their stronholds. This is all now that Sinhalese extremists are trying to distort this and create false stories. Even ancient Sinhalese narratives only state that the north-central province is getting depopulated. The ancient cradle of Sinhalese civilisation is not the proper north or east. When English people say the northern country, it means the northern parts of England and not Scotland, and usually western country does not mean Wales but the western counties of England. Stop being foolish and idiotic.
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SJ / November 17, 2025
C
You are sick I fear.
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Pundit / November 17, 2025
Father Peiris, you have failed to mention the failed professional politician who has spent almost all his adult life living off the taxpayer’s money – RW. Master crooks and racketeers have defrauded this country of billions of rupees with his tacit approval.
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leelagemalli / November 19, 2025
Pundit,
Please check your sources before attacking former President RW or anyone who may have lived off taxpayer funds. The truth is that RW has donated his entire salary to charity over the years. They come from a wealthy family. Just because Jeppos spread blatant lies in multiple volumes does not mean that everyone should accept everything they say. I, too, believed that the Rajapakshes stole billions of dollars and hid them in Uganda. However, the truth has been revealed: no such funds have been robbed, and this is now the biggest lie of JVP-preelection rhetoric.
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Mallaiyuran / November 20, 2025
Robin Hood is often portrayed as an outlaw and an enthusiastic thief, yet he is also remembered as someone who cared deeply for the poor. Throughout history and across the world, many individuals similar to Robin Hood have existed. It is said that even the legendary English Robin Hood may not have been a single person, but rather a figure representing different kinds of outlaws.
In this context, the Sinhalese outlaw Puran Appu can be compared to Robin Hood. However, unlike Robin Hood, Puran Appu is not generally associated with acts of charity.
Turning to more recent events, the so-called Evil Emperor admitted guilt for the UNP’s pogrom of 1983 sometime between 2015 and 2017. Despite this admission, he never accepted responsibility for the actions of Junius Richard or Cyril Mathew. Furthermore, no reparations were ever paid to the Tamil victims. In contrast, his unelected government made unreasonably high payments for alleged fake property damage to ministers and MPs in 2022. Some of them may face criminal cases.
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ramona therese fernando / November 17, 2025
Besides the hidden shell and money-laundering accounts that will be impossible to locate, prove, and repatriate ( other than to prosecute and penalize the suspected account-holdees), most of these so-called investment accounts have now become legitimate main-stream ones. GoSL needs to take note on where Lankan stock exchange places its investments on, and what the foreign overseas Lanka businesses are about that builds up foreign communities over Lankan ones. The following are a few examples of these money drainers crippling our land:
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-Dubai and Western real estate
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Foreign businesses started up with Lankan money like Ayuverdic ones in the middle-east and start-up companies in Canada that come with vendetta-type killings
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-Crypto-Currency (to fuel the US-China rivalry)
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Money of struggling Lankan workers siphoned off into legitimate global monetary markets for investment purposes, where only the 0.1% reap its rewards (and taken care of by teams of Lankan lawyers),
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Hosts of beauty contest investments
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Hosts of religious activities especially new alternate Christian ones
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Global AI investments to boost up the US-China rivalry
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Space-X venturisms (where huge amounts of Lankan money went/goes to build up this space industry with key Lankan players holding titles)
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US and other conglomerates with Lankans sitting in grandure as trustees.
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nimal fernando / November 18, 2025
“Space-X venturisms”
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Ramona,
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While you’re stargazing nightly with beloved OC …… Musk’s focus is more earthly.
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“Satellite giant EchoStar just sold off a block of radio frequencies to Elon Musk’s SpaceX for a jaw-dropping $17 billion. To most investors, it looked like another headline in the crowded 5G race. With SpaceX eliminating “dead zones” worldwide, Mode’s earning technology can reach 3B+ unbanked people globally in rural populations worldwide. We’re talking about emerging markets with no infrastructure.”
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ramona therese fernando / November 19, 2025
Nimal……Truly diabolical! And the money comes from struggling workers in countries such as ours, for Lankans to buy their places in the space industry for Eelon to experiment with infrastructure that will widen the ever widening global poverty gap.
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old codger / November 20, 2025
Ramona,
“Nimal……Truly diabolical! And the money comes from struggling workers in countries such as ours”
So, you finally admit that there are struggling poor people living in tent cities in Pittsburgh, where you live. But can they afford StarLink in their tents?
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ramona therese fernando / November 17, 2025
Cont.
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GoSL needs to investige each and every Lankan stock exchange placement and foreign investment and business accounts, repariate the monies, and create our stock exchange suited to our developmental needs by placing these monies on the investment and development of our own workers and industries.
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GoSL can’t pussy-foot around these in fear and fall in with the old-school gala-dance parties to keep a temporary economic high. It’s about time they implemented the rigorous Lankan plan of capital gains to save the Motherland. It is not too tough a road ahead if they have the courage and support of the struggling masses, and one that will serve the country, reconciliation and all, for generations to come.
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Mallaiyuran / November 18, 2025
The opposition’s Sinhala Buddhism card is many times larger than even some of the players’ imagination. NPP has to roll its cart only holding masses’ hand to defeat the opposition.
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Rajash / November 17, 2025
unfortunately AKD is busy with Buddha statue is Trinco. which is now the headline news in Sri Lanka. All corruption and money laundering by Ranil Rajapkasas are buried under the Trinco Buddha statue.
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Rohan25 / November 18, 2025
Yes, why is this government, the Sinhalese police and armed forces and many other powerful southern Sinhalese media and elite protecting these Sinhalese Buddhist racists, fascists and extremist Buddhist monks going around the predominantly Tamil Hindu and Muslim Trincomalee district? where Sinhalese only arrived as illegal migrants and colonisers around 50 years ago, settled using the power of the Sinhalese military and police and government resources, and Tamil lands to run a mock everywhere with impunity, with the support of the fake Archaeological Department, which is full of fake Archaeologists, and Sinhalese Buddhist racists and facists, specially selected by all Sinhalese led governments, especially the Rajapakses for their ability to lie concoct history to steal stategic Tamil lands in the north and east for Sinhalese Buddhism.
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Rohan25 / November 18, 2025
Look, there is a dead silence about what is happening in Trincomalee, about these extremist Sinhalese Buddhist monks, who are allowed to run amok with impunity, surrounded by a whole heap of Sinhalese thugs and criminal elements, to plant Buddha statues everywhere and destroy Hindu god statues and claim everything for Sinhalese Buddhism. Like Sumanthiran posted, this government is proving that it is as racist and Sinhalese Buddhist fundamentalist as all previous governments. These extremist Buddhist monks and their heavily armed thugs, Sinhalese supporters, should have been apprehended and punished severely for disturbing the peace and harmony, but instead are being given all the protection by the Police, the Sinhalese armed forces and the fake Archaeological department Sinhalese racists. This proves that we need a proper federal state for the north and east with Police and land powers for both state and private lands, and the power to make our decisions here and stop this state-sponsored Sinhalese settlement in Tamil lands. Otherwise, we need a separate state.
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Rohan25 / November 18, 2025
The Sinhalese got their independence from European colonialism, but the Tamils only changed their masters from white European colonials to racist Sinhalese, who had never ruled their lands and are now intent on destroying them, fell from the frying pan into the fire. This is what the British did to us, and then watching the fun and supporting the Sinhalese racists.
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rajk will arul / November 18, 2025
Jesus Christ taught a federation of heaven and Earth. The God spoke the 10 commandments, and Israel rejected God (Exodus 20:19,) so God gave 2 stone tablets as remembrance 10 commandments As 10 fingers in anjali mudra – they form 5 pairs that explain Christ’s parable of the wise sower. 1) own truth. 2) neighbourly honesty. 3) respectful preservation of truth. 4) contractual integrity and autonomy. 5) abundant life. This are _common_ principles found in Zhou Enlai’s 5 principles of peaceful coexistence. As God’s words are 7 dimensional: a temple is as local as a town. 8D governmental religion covers multiple temples and towns. and 9D is the language shared by governments. Federalism would teach Sri Lanka to engage in the World as NZ does, eye to eye with giants.
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Native Vedda / November 18, 2025
Rajash
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Have you seen nimal fernando anywhere in the vicinity since yesterday? I want him to see a clip, https://www.facebook.com/reel/1142948471345949 which clearly indicate the state of the state.
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A Bikku (monk) publicly campaigning against AKD because the authorities did not allow the construction of an unauthorized or illegal Vihāra on a beachfront isn’t just about one building. Then today the deputy minister told it was a temporary ban. It symbolizes a deeper, long-running political dynamic in Sri Lanka:
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Some monks have historically exercised political influence, sometimes outside legal frameworks. When a government or official blocks an illegal construction, certain clergy may interpret it as hostility rather than enforcement. However all parties without exception willing to bend or break the rules if it pleases the saffron thugs.
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A monk mobilizing sentiment not on legal grounds, but on identity and emotional framing. This is a common tactic used to stir resistance against reformist or secular governance. The monk’s campaign is a way to, signal that religious nationalism can still mobilize quickly and warn political actors that any challenge to extra-legal privileges will be met with backlash.
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This is exactly why some people worry about how strong the resistance to institutional reforms will be.
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Yet nimal wants us to trust AKD and his comrades including Tilvin, Bimal, …. rest of the old guards.
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Ajith / November 17, 2025
“They are the betraying bastards of Mother Lanka.”
All this bastards betraying Mother Lanka is still feel free and be around us without any fear of the past. NPP also says that they are clean but most of them hold millions worth of money. Why they are reluctant to take action against them. I don’t think there is not single family who was responsible for corruption and misuse of power, misuse of resources, misuse of religion. This Family is called Rajapaksa Family. All the so called bastards were under under them. So far NPP is reluctant to take actions against them. Why?
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Rajash / November 18, 2025
Mother Lanka is crying for last 75 odd years.
at the beginning it was tear drops.
politicians promised to wipe away the tears
but tear drops became
blood drops
then blood shed
then rivers of blood
all along politicians were sucking the blood like parasites
AKD was also guilty of rivers of blood
but he promised to wipe the tears away
but he is shedding blood again in Trinco
hope it doesn’t turn in to rivers of blood
Sri Lanka is known as the tear drop of the Indian Ocean…for no reason
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Ajith / November 18, 2025
“Mother Lanka is crying for last 75 odd years.”
The day Buddhism was introduced to Lanka in the 3rd century BCE by Mahinda, the Buddhism start to cry because Sinhalese took Buddhism as a weapon to cover up their true face. They were very silent nearly five centuries they changed to different religions under europeans. when the opportunity came in in 1948, they took up cover under Buddhism for their politics.Buddhism cried, but they all used it to become billionaire’s and even now after bankruptcy, they killed Lord Buddha and true Buddhism. The body is covered by Yellow but blood is all around the country Buddha is killed but they play with Buddha’s statue.
Oh dear Buddha. why did you come to Lanka. Not only you but many. Blood is Lanka. Lanka is Blood.
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Mallaiyuran / November 18, 2025
The defeated opposition appears to be preparing for a movement that could be even more significant than the events of 1958, 1977, or 1983. Drawing parallels to the way the so-called Evil Emperor suppressed the protests in 2022, there is a growing concern that the opposition is attempting to provoke the National People’s Power (NPP) into taking drastic measures. Their aim seems to be to lure the NPP into a trap, giving them an opportunity to execute their own plans unhindered.
This fear is not unfounded, especially for those who have experienced hardship and migrated to Colombo in search of employment. The opposition is unlikely to allow the NPP to dismantle the networks of the drug lords, as these networks are integral to their power and survival. There are indications that they are attempting to manipulate Sinhala Buddhism to exert influence over the Tamil population, spreading their agenda even further.
It is not only the opposition itself that is involved in these maneuvers; their paramilitary affiliates also seem eager to take center stage and play an active role. If the opposition succeeds in their efforts, the future of Lankawe could mirror that of North Korea, with no hope for recovery or reform.
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Ajith / November 18, 2025
“If the opposition succeeds in their efforts, the future of Lankawe could mirror that of North Korea, with no hope for recovery or reform.”
The opposition already succeeded in their efforts again use Buddhism for a bloodbath. NPP government immediately changed its stand in Trincomale. Further, President agreed to meet Federal party tomorrow. This is again a positive opportunity to benefit opposition. They will make a storey or even bomb blast to create another 1983. Now, NPP need to decide do they need Buddhism in Politics or not.
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