(Courtesy of Daily News)

Colonel Olcott was an inspiring servant of mankind. He lived in our age and dedicated the later years of his life to Buddhism and the peoples of Asia particularly those of India and Sri Lanka. He …

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Vociferous to Silent:

Does the international community’s silence during the rule of Yahapalanya mean Sri Lanka is finally on the ‘right’ path, or that we’re finally doing what we’re told to do.

From 2009 to 2014, Sri Lanka was so …

බ්‍රිතාන්‍යය තුළ කොටි සංවිධානය තහනම්ය. එහෙත් බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය රජය කොටි මිනීමරුවන්ට කොටි ධජය සහ ප්‍රභාකරන් නමැති මිනීමරුවාගේ ඡායාරූප ප්‍රදර්ශනය කරමින් විරෝධතා පැවැත්වීමට ඉඩදී ඇත. මේ හැර තෙරේසා මිලර්ස්‌, රොබට්‌ සැල්පන්, පෝල් ස්‌කලි, එඩ්වඩ් ඩේව්, ජෝන් රයිස්‌, ස්‌ලොබද්‍රනා මැක්‌ඩොනා ඇතුළු බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය මන්ත්‍රීවරු …

Mahinda Rajapaksa, after losing the Presidential Election, making his now infamous from-the-window speech, blamed it ‘on the Tamils’. It was a crass, knee-jerk conclusion which was racist and a complete disavowal of his own and significant flaws. He has since …

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Supported by the Sri Lankan government, Sinhala nationalist and Buddhist monks from Colombo and Jaffna, a group of over  50 former Sinhalese families who were in Jaffna prior of the LTTE Tamil terrorism  have settled in Navakkuliya village, along the …

(Amended excerpts From the “Sunday Times” Political Column of February 11th 2018)

Just this week, a completely unrelated incident was to highlight the sharp and heightening divisions within Sirisena’s coalition. It came after Britain’s High Commissioner to Sri Lanka James …

(Courtesy of The Island)

Co-conveners of Purawesi Balaya, Gamini Viyangoda, K.W. Janaranjana and Saman Ratnapriya yesterday claimed that the outfit had received firm assurances from President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Monday (Feb. 12) that they wouldn’t …

The best way to predict the future is to create it – Abraham Lincoln

 By Shenali D Waduge

10^th February 2018 will go down in history as a watershed moment in Sri Lankan politics. It beat previous startling …