By KAMALIKA PIERIS

When Mahinda Rajapakse became President of Sri Lanka in 2005, Ajit Samaranayake said the event ‘opens a new chapter in post independence history, where a leader unburdened by either dynastic trappings or the stigma of elitism find …

(Courtesy of Ceylon Today)

BY SHIVANTHI RANASINGHE

The focus of the West, UN, civil rights groups and like-minded politicians, is to engineer reconciliation in Sri Lanka. Their agenda is to reconcile the Sinhalese with the Tamils. Unfortunately, this is not …

(Courtesy of Ceylon Today)

Rtd. Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara will leave for Geneva tomorrow leading a three-man delegation to meet UN Human Rights Chief Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein to mount an offensive against the case, now argued before the United …

Senaka Weeraratna

The primordial national identity of this country is Sinhale and religious identity is Buddhist. These two historical identities should not be allowed to be dispensed with in order to embrace an artificial secular identity (Sri Lankan) that has …

By Shanika Sriyananda

‘ViyathMaga,’ professionals for a better future, last week called on professionals, academics, intellectuals andentrepreneurs to become a force that guides the country irrespective of party politics.

Having its maiden annual convention on 4 March, it brought nearly …

By Malinda Seneviratne

 What’s the difference between this government and the previous one?  Ask some random person on the street and the most likely answer would be ‘nothing’.  That’s a perception of felt benefits.  In fact some might even say …

Global Sri Lanka Forum, GSLF an umbrella organization of Sri Lankans domiciled abroad, says it will work hard for the preservation of the unitary status of the country. In an interview with Daily Mirror , its Sri Lanka coordinator Nuwan …

https://www.change.org/p/president-of-the-united-states-stop-entertaining-tamil-tiger-terrorists-sympathisers-traitorous-minister-samaraweera

Tamil tiger terrorists are still active in western countries aiming the destruction of Sri Lanka again which the visionary ex-president Rajapaksha has finished with able Tri-forces after 30 years of suffering to all communities.

These Tamils originated from their …

By Malinda Senevirathna

Any discussion on claims which contain words such as ‘traditional’ or ‘historical’ can make sense only if assertions are backed by fact and not myth.  They should be buttressed by a corpus of evidence that are coherent …