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By Dayan Jayatilleka  Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka After Hyde Park, March 17th 2016, politics cannot go on as before. Not for much longer anyway. For a few months now, Prof. Kumar David, a literate leftist and an ideologue of the Yahapalana bloc,..

Global Sri Lankans Forum, (GSLF)a group of expatriate Sri Lankans in Europe, North America, Australia and Middle East submitted their proposals to the proposed amendments to the Sri Lankan Constitution to the Chairman of the Committee of Public Representations on..

A daily newspaper released an article “Journalist tags Eknaligoda a fake” in late February 2016. The journalist making the allegation was Daily Mirror’s News Editor who said that in his 30 years of serving as a journalist he had never..

One of the major topics of discussion today is whether or not Sri Lanka needs a religious banking system. The Sinhala Buddhist group Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) first voiced concern over this issue by sending a letter to the Auditor..

Hon. Dinesh Gunawardena, MP, MEP Leader and Joint Opposition Leader said in the parliament that accusations levied against Sri Lankan military are indeed not fair. Numbers are disputed and varied from 140,000 to 7.000. He asked who’s responsible for LTTE..

National University Teachers Association of Sri Lanka, NUTA has issued a strongly worded press release on the behavior of the India High Commissioner Y K Sinha about his remarks on Sri Lanka. It seems that Mr. Sinha is acting as..

By Rajeewa Jayaweera According to recent news reports, the Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka addressing the workshop on ‘non-tariff measures increasing awareness on Indian standards and regulations under Indo – Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement ISFTA’, has criticized the..

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oy9p3E8svk Spokesperson of Hindu Federation Mr. Arunkāntan N said that separatism designed and feed to the innocent Tamil people by the Christian Catholics. Therefore,  Christians are directly involve to divide the country today. The Catholic fundamentalist organization such as Christian..

It was reported that many anti-Sinhala elements supported by LTTE backed TNA and other minority political parties and foreign funded NGO formulating a conspiracy to chase out Sinhalese from their native lands in the North and East with the intention..

(Courtesy of The Island)  One must understand what is meant by nationalism before one could understand the association between nationalism, the National Anthem and the Constitution. Nationalism is not racist; it is neither aggressive nor oppressive, on the contrary it..