STAYING YOUNG AND HAPPY

In the complicated world we live in today, it is essential to concentrate on some important aspects of our lives and staying young and healthy emerges as paramount. A friend very kindly sent me a video on what is believed are essential attributes to staying young and healthy; and I am sharing it with you.

What is in store for the UNP/SJB?

It might not be ethically correct to predict result of any election, especially of a tightly contested election as it might influence the constituency.

United we stand, Divided we fall

The party brought independence to the nation. The party revived agriculture, brought free education, and started providing free text books and free midday meals to school children. The party introduced the Suwaseriya ambulance....

Tamils and their representatives in Parliament - EDITORIAL

The Sinhala lawmakers coming in their numbers to pay respects to the late Ceylon Workers’Congress (CWC) President Arumugan Thondaman remind us of something that needs to be changed in this country.

Polls apart, Lanka sitting on world geopolitical volcano

Sri Lanka seems to be caught in a storm in the troubled waters of the Indian Ocean as the United States and China lock horns on several fronts. With the US-China rivalry escalating in recent months, the Millennium Challenge....

Ranil will be remembered as best President Sri Lanka never had - Mangala

Former Foreign Minister and former Minister of Finance Mangala Samaraweera made a surprise decision not to contest the Parliamentary election.Various claims were made over his surprise move....

Voting is serious business so vote wisely

We focus today on the twice-postponed general election, which is just round the corner, at touching distance as it were amid the fear,,,,

Whither Gota and the SLPP?

Even the staunchest opponents of the Government would concede that the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) is more than likely to secure a clear majority at the parliamentary election in August.

Election manifestos and humbugs

This is a time when people with a franchise to vote must question politicians about not implementing what they boasted about in past manifestos.

SLPP wants to see the back of SLFP

As polling day approaches, intra-party forays over preferential votes rage within the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP). The SLPP is contesting the polls in alliance with likeminded parties such as the National Freedom Front, Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) and Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP).

PCoI criticised for entertaining complaints from private businessmen

Questions have been raised as to why the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) that was appointed by the President to probe political victimisation of public officers....

Thunder over the blunder of Colonial plunder - EDITORIAL

Amid the Corona pandemic, social analysts are also noting how catastrophe is being turned into a blessing with a historic worldwide movement.....

TNA’s demand for Federalism: A Manifesto of faultlines

The Election Manifesto recently issued by the TNA for the August General Election makes it unequivocally clear that the political aspirations....

Resolving PHI’s issues is vital to shield second wave

Sri Lanka is still on the brink of a second wave of COVID-19 pandemic, following the detection of more than 500 coronavirus infected persons at the Kandakadu and Senapura rehabilitation centres for drug addicts early this month and amo

Sri Lanka’s foreign policy formulation: The Indian factor

The foreign policy followed by Sri Lanka in its first few years of independence was largely determined by two factors: its proximity to India and its colonial past. The one influenced the other. The nature of the colonial bourgeoisie,

The UNP is the Party that developed the country

Kandy District United National Party (UNP) candidate Shanthini Kongahage believes that the UNP gave enough prominenc

FORGOTTEN HEROES BEHIND THE TRUE STORY OF FREE EDUCATION AND MISSED OPPORTUNITIES IN SRI LANKA

Much has been said and written about the great C.W.W. Kannangara for his salutary role in the introduction and implementa

We’re creating a working class consciousness

Socialist Equality Party (SEP) candidate Pani Wijesiriwardena, who is contesting the upcoming 2020 Parliamentary Elections, talks about the importance of a socialist revolution, providing the working class with solutions for issues regardi

Presidential pardons in Sri Lanka: An unchecked executive power?

On March 26, 2020, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa granted a presidential pardon to former Lance Corporal Sunil Rathnayake, a prisoner on death row for the murder of eight persons in Mirusuvil in 2000.

What’s wrong with bribery? How the law should deal with it?

A subsistence-level carpenter contemplating suicide in rural Sri Lanka and a multi million-dollar power plant bribery scandal cannot possibly be connected. Or could they?

Democracy or a Police State? Bathiudeen and Karunanayake Harassed

We have the police to uphold law and order, and to support democratic institutions. Unfortunately, there are dangerous signs that they, the police

Food and Nutrition in the Limelight

World attention is increasingly turning to food. It is during times of food shortages that people think of farmers, fisher-folk and food production.

Troubled times in Sri Lanka - EDITORIAL

We are living in troubled times. In April last year -just as we felt the island’’s economy was beginning to recover in the aftermath of the 30-year-long insurgency....

CWC, Jeevan Thondaman and Nuwara- Eliya Tamils

The hills of Nuwara Eliya are vibrantly alive with the hectic sounds of parliamentary electioneering! Nuwara Eliya district with its picturesque landscape and salubrious climate elects eight members in the 225 member parliament of Sri Lanka. 577,717 registered voters in the district are eligible to cast their ballots at the forthcoming elections scheduled for August 5.

Work for racial equality and social justice

American novelist and poet Josiah Gilbert Holland in a legendary plea said--give us men and women a time like this demands, strong minds, great hearts,

SJB and its repeated ‘Bombshells’

The Samagi Jana Balavegaya is now five months old. It officially began on February 11, when the Election Commission recognised Sajith Premadasa as its Chairman and Ranjith Madduma Bandara as its Secretary.

The Caring Shepherd

It was with curiosity that I read the article by Mr. Sanjeewa Fernando, under the intriguing title; “From Homilies on Piety to Harangues in Politics” appearing in the Daily Mirror of June 24, 2020.

Northern politics revolve around only one issue

There is no difference in essence between the politics and particularly the election campaigns of majority Sinhalese politicians and minority Tamil and Muslim politicians. No political party, be it majority or minority....

The UNP is a party that can stand on its own - Ruwan Wijewardene

Former State Minister of Defence Ruwan Wijewardene says that the incumbent government will not survive for long, especially when looking at what they have done to control the COVID-19 pandemic situation. Mr. Wijewardene.....

Hagia Sophia: Don’t violate its virtue of inter-faith harmony

For more than eight decades, the iconic Hagia Sophia has stood as a monument for inter-faith harmony. This cathedral-turned-mosque-turned museum has not only symbolized Turkey’s....