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The Bourse is ours
Everyone takes note. Some keep notes. Some in diaries and journals. Some in their minds and hears. Some of these are shared via email or on Facebook or blog; some are not. Among these people are...
View ArticleConversations with Sarath N Silva
These are moving-around days. There’s talk of people crossing party lines. There are people plotting regime-change. There are people getting ready to counter such moves. People are talking to...
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When the 'boys' of '83 and '89 turned on the freshness
TEAM 83 with their die-hard fansThey were the oldest among the Old Boys of Royal College who had gathered at the CR&FC grounds. They had gathered to play rugby. That’s six-a-side rugby....
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It is cool to slosh around
‘I can’t stand seeing paddy fields like this!’ a 13 year old girl blurts out. The said paddy field had probably been ploughed a day or two previously. Ploughed but not evened out for transplanting....
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Rohana Wijeweera’s fading political signature
He still makes it to the 'May Day Stage'. Barely.Twenty five years ago a man was killed. He was one of some 60,000 who had been killed in those gruesome days of the late eighties. It is reported...
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Dear Rebel, P is (also) for Proportion
Pic by Rukshan AbeywanshaThis is the seventh in a series of articles on rebels and rebellion written for the FREE section of 'The Nation'. 'FREE' is dedicated to youth and youthfulness.More than...
View ArticleSome run, some walk, some crawl and some stand still
Tilvin Silva of the JVP made an interesting point at the commemoration of comrades slain in 1988-89: ‘Mahinda has already run half the race.’ The constitution favors incumbent. Authorities turn a...
View ArticleSampanthan’s non-aligned bluff
Former TNA leader and veteran politician R Sampanthan has raised important concerns that are shared by many outside his party’s constituency. China. He is worried that ‘Chinese influence on Sri Lanka...
View ArticleEnglish is a feel-good thing na?*
The nice thing about writing a regular column is that one gets a lot of feedback. Well, to be honest, it is not nice when people poke fun at me, but sometimes even the not-nice stuff contains valuable...
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Name-calling is a fun game
There are governments and each of them has an Opposition. There are strong governments and weak ones. Likewise, the Opposition is sometimes strong and sometimes weak. Very weak. Regardless of...
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Heroes and heroism are great but…
This is the eighth in a series of articles on rebels and rebellion written for the FREE section of 'The Nation'. 'FREE' is dedicated to youth and youthfulness.A hero is someone who does something...
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Still looking for that secret passage?*
Many believe that the world is made of secrets. One reason for this is that we are not born knowing everything. There’s so much we don’t know. The moment we recognize this, we start getting curious....
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"Kasurige Kolama": more than a collection of laughs
Former Editor, Silumuna, Karunadasa Suriyarachchi (better known by his byline 'Kasuri') passed on recently. This is a review of a collection of his widely read column in the Irida Divaina, 'Kasurige...
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Maithripala: King in Waiting or Ranil's Pawn?
Early days. Remember that. Keep in mind also that in a 40-day run each day counts and that ‘early’ can quickly bleed into ‘late’ and ‘too late’. That said, let’s consider Maithripala Sirisena’s...
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Mahinda-Maithree and the hour of the voter
After weeks of speculation the Opposition has come up with a name. A solid one too. Maithripala Sirisena. It’s a name calculated to split the major partner of the ruling coalition, i.e. the Sri...
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The Jathika Hela Urumaya decides
The Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) made a decision. The party decided that those who hold various positions in the government will resign forthwith. The party further decided that it will remain in...
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Dear Percy, your Membership Card is ready*
Yep, you touched it up nicely. We own it though. But we feel generous. Come join us. Membership is yours, if you want.There’s a cluster of caste-based villages off the Kurunegala-Anuradhapura (via...
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Recruiting for a rebellion
One person is not a front. Sometimes a single person can make a big difference, but if you want radical social transformation that (hopefully) lasts, you will need some pals. The problem is that when...
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The world is rearranged by silhouettes
There are times when we wonder if things are as they really seem. Think of something. Think of just one thing. Let’s say…hmmm…a coconut tree you can see from your window. If there’s no coconut...
View ArticleThe story of a puppy dog, a calf and an infant
I was thinking of dogs and remembered an observation attributed to the irrepressible Ranbanda Seneviratne: ‘There was a time when if a dog died, there would be 50 people there immediately wondering...
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