Courtesy of The Island

By Shamindra Ferdinando

The launch of ‘Thiyunu Asipathaka Sevana Yata’ (In the Shadow of a Sharp Sword), Sinhala translation of ‘Oru Koorvaalin Nizhalil’, life story of high ranking LTTE cadre, Subramaniam Sivakamy alias ‘Col’ Thamilini, took …

By Senaka Weeraratna

Buddhism has shaped the lives of our people, the identity, and the direction of our society in a way unmatched by any other religion. Buddhism has been the national faith for over two millennia and the bedrock …

Kings King’s Grove Crescent,

Gloucester,

Ontario, K1J 6G1

19 May 2016

Rt. Hon. Justin Trudeau

Prime Minister of Canada

House of Commons, Ottawa.

cc. Hon. Rona Ambrose. Interim Leader of the Conservative Party

     Hon. Tom Mulcair. Leader of the NDP…

KAMALIKA  PIERIS

The  British name for the island, ‘Ceylon’ came from the Dutch   ‘Zeylan’ . ‘Zeylan’ came from the Portuguese ‘Ceilao’ .  Ceilao came  from the Arabic ‘Zailan’   which was derived from the  indigenous ‘Sinhala’. Therefore these were all versions …

(Courtesy of Sunday Times)

After 16 months of holding the post of Prime Minister, is UNP on a navigated route or on a collision course with the people?  Undoing is self-inflicted: mainly caused by the leader’s cloistered advisers living far …

By Dr Mathias Keitel

(Courtesy of Asian Tribune)

As a student of Sri Lankan politics and a commentator on South Asian affairs, I was appalled to read the open letter written by the Sri Lankan Foreign Minister, Samaraweera, to the …

Close observers heard distant but nevertheless clear ringing of the bells of warning about a pre-arranged Indo-Lanka plan to forge closer… and shared… Indo-Lanka maritime ties judging by the apparently easy acceptance by Indian Premier Narendra Modi of President Sirisena’s …

The voting percentage in Tamil Nadu has crossed 40 as I write this and no matter whether the DMK or the AIADMK wins, the state will return to the now, sickeningly familiar phenomenon of welfarism run riot, on a scale …

“The TULF / TNA knew what the LTTE could do to the unarmed. They knew what they had done to those who were armed, those who had the guns and had undergone relevant training. The LTTE annihilated the TELO, and …