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India's 'love'
Subramanyam Jaishankar, India’s External Affairs Minister, being a politician has made a political statement. He would know, as any Indian politician would, the temper of the Indian voter. Moreover,...
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Covid-19 surge as an opportunity to re-calibrate
Lockdown. Isolation. Quarantine. Wave. Social. Spread. Cluster. These are not new words. They are however words that have acquired fresh currency courtesy Covid-19. And, as often happens, when used...
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Detox: political economy and practicalities
Vegetables grown at Mihimandala in Welikandagama are free of pesticides and other agricultural chemicals [see Dr Prasanna Cooray's article'Overcoming the challenges of organic farming' The final...
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The 'Third Wave' of political chicanery
We had the first wave. The second. Now a third. And, as is typical of a capitalist world order, crises (or waves) are a bit like the bread of Egypt, Octavio Paz, the winner of the Nobel Prize for...
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Business unfinished even after 12 years
Twelve years ago, almost to the day, the Sri Lankan security forces brought an end to a three decades long struggle against terrorism. Against the world’s most ruthless terrorist organization, in fact....
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The themagula, thilakshana and other thoughts on the Dhamma
There are things to talk about today. We could discuss the bipartisan House Resolution introduced by US Congresswoman Deborah Ross on Sri Lanka. It called for an ‘effective international mechanism for...
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Letting and making things happen
What’s happening? That’s the question many ask. Then there are those who respond to the question or, as in certain cases, a question is not even necessary for comment. ‘Nothing’ is a common...
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History and Historiography 101 for US lawmakers
Tulsa. Remember the name. May 31 and June 1. Remember the dates. There’s a year to remember: 1921. And there’s a thing that the USA would want US citizens and indeed the world to forget. Remember it....
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And Canada slips and slides on genocide
In an ideal world, or a flat world if you will (where liberty, equality and fraternity are affirmed in word and deed at every turn), it would be lovely for the people of one country to care about those...
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Covid-19 and the ‘science’ of the wizards
Dr Diyanath Samarasinghe, speaking on ‘How the [medical] profession can help us balance work and life issues,’ at an event organized by the Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA), made a very...
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රන් අකුරින් නොලියවුණාට සමහර දේවල් පවතිනවා
මහින්ද ප්රසාද් මස්ඉඹුල ගේ 'සෙන්කොට්ටන්'නවකතාවේ පරිවර්තනයට එච්. ඒ.අයි. ගුණතිලක සම්මානය ලැබීමෙන් පසු 'අනිද්දා'පුවත්පතේ කර්තෘ මා මිත්ර ජනරංජන විසින් කරන ලද සාකච්ඡාව එම පුවත්පතේ මෙසේ සටහන් විය: මීට...
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Island of a thousand hypocrites
A very wise man, then an undergraduate at the University of Peradeniya, once said that there are no wrongdoers in this world — everyone justifies their actions/decisions. The act or decision may be...
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Obtaining probables from one piece of a jigsaw puzzle is a political game
An Army-run vaccination centerPolitical commentary is easy. Good political commentary is rare. Think of a jigsaw puzzle. A tough one, not the one with just a dozen pieces, but one with a thousand and...
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Reading the ‘re-election’ statement
‘The boss has said it loud and clear that he will contest a second time! Now the other side (opposition) would have to nominate Basil. If not, even someone from the tuk-tuk party could also do the...
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Seeds of discontent, seeds of change
Comparative iron and fiber content of traditional Sri Lankan rice varieties (Oryza sativa): a fragrant rice (Suwandel); b dark rice (Kalu heenati); c red rice (Kurulutuda); d red rice (Madathavalu); e...
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Tsunamis: medical and otherwise
Dr Padma Gunaratne, President of the Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA) warned a few weeks ago that the country is heading toward what she called ‘the first phase of the Covid-19 fourth wave...
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Shadow warriors and comfort zones
Kagemusha is the name of a highly acclaimed film directed by Akira Kurosawa. Kagemusha is a Japanese term for a political decoy. It means ‘shadow warrior’ and refers to a look-alike tasked to...
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Superspreaders galore!
The Coronavirus has changed the world. It has transformed lifestyles. It has forced a re-think on a wide range of activities and things we’ve taken for granted. It has also spawned epidemiologists to...
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Terror hubs from Washington DC to Kabul, London to Johannesburg
The First Anglo-Afghan War, William Dalrymple observed just a week ago (‘Britain’s fourth Afghan war is a replay of the first infamous retreat 170 years ago), was arguably the greatest military...
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Covid-19 and citizenship
What should a citizen do in a situation that is certainly worrisome and is probably reason for alarm? What should you do, what should I do? These are questions to which there are many possible...
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