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  • Masters Honored Mangala for His Services to the West

    Masters Honored Mangala for His Services to the West

    A NGO, the International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) has presented a high award for “Special contribution to the reconciliation and coexisting of different groups in Sri Lanka”‘ to Mangala Samaraweera the most unpopular Foreign Minister of Sri



  • Subservience at its worst

    Subservience at its worst

    Courtesy  of The Island 

    It is being argued in some quarters that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s recent comment, in Colombo, drawing a far-fetched comparison between the Vanni war and acts of genocide in Rwanda and Srebrenica has inflicted severer …



  • Thus spake Ban

    Thus spake Ban

     (Courtesy  of The Island )

    UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has come and gone, but brouhaha one of his controversial remarks triggered has not yet died down. The government was over the moon about Ban’s visit, but now it has …


  • THE “KINGDOM OF JAFFNA”

    THE “KINGDOM OF JAFFNA”

    KAMALIKA  PIERIS

    Jaffna was originally an island called ‘Nagadipa’ , separated from the mainland by a narrow strip of water. It became linked to the mainland only in the 18 century. It was a part of the Sinhala kingdom and