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What if Maithri called the UNP’s bluff?
'No can do' is a trump-response that Maithri can draw anytime.The United National Party (UNP) wants Parliament dissolved. This is not new. Party stalwarts Lakshman Kiriella and Kabir Hashim even...
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"Good Governance Vs Corruption" and Sajith Premadasa's cheap talk
Sajith Premadasa has taken a long break from attacking his leader, Ranil Wickremesinghe. Perhaps he’s been sobered by recent developments. Perhaps he has taken the trouble to read the party...
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A home-grown solution to the home-based problem called Dengue*
*An earlier version of this article was published in the 'Daily Mirror' on June 1, 2010. I have made a few changes in view of changes in the political scene. The mosquito has survived these changes....
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The UNP’s desperate dissolution-need
The story that’s being shared most in social media with respect to political developments in Sri Lanka is Health Minister and Cabinet Spokesperson Rajitha Senaratne’s claim that former President,...
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Ranil Wickremesinghe's trumps
Old friends need each otherThe joke was that Mahinda Rajapaksa and Ranil Wickremesinghe, regardless of stated political differences, were totally dependent on each other. In Mahinda’s case Ranil was...
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පියවරු සහ පුත්තු (හෝ දියණියන්)
මගේ අම්මා සංසාරේ ඈ ගොනු කර ගත කර්ම ඵල වලට අනුකූල භාවයක් පතා අපෙන් සදහටම සමුගෙන දැනට පස් වසරකි. ඈ අපෙන් සමුගත් දුක්බර මොහොතේ දී මාගේ මිතුරියක් මගෙන් මෙසේ ඇසුවාය: 'අම්මා ට ඔයා ගැන ආඩම්බරයක් තිබුනද?'මා...
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Dear Rebel, have you met 'PB' of Alutwela?
PB repairing the 900m long pipe that irrigates his landThis is the thirty fourth in a series of articles on rebels and rebellion written for the FREE section of 'The Nation'. Scroll to the end for...
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"මගේ කවියට අරමුණක්‌ නැහැ"
'Edges' ('එජස්'නොහොත් 'මායිම්') නම් කාව්‍ය සංග්‍රහය සඳහා 2013 වසරේ ග්‍රේෂන් සම්මානය ලැබීමෙන් අනතුරුව ලක්මාල් බෝගහවත්ත මා සමග කල සංවාදයක් 2014 ජූලි 3 දා 'ඉංග්‍රීසියෙන් සිංහල ආරක්‌ෂා කිරීම මගේ වෑයමයි'යන...
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When people don't listen, things will
This is the thirty fourth in a series I am writing for the JEANS section of 'The Nation'. The series is for children. Adults consider yourselves warned...you might re-discover a child within you!...
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The JVP now owns ‘The Old Left’
In a parallel universe Anura might wonder, 'What would Wijeweera say?'First there was the Left. It was still ‘Left’ even though those bunched at that end of the political spectrum disagreed vehemently...
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The besieging of Ranil Wickremesinghe
It cannot be easy to run a Government with a less than 25% strength in Parliament. Sure, Ranil Wickremesinghe has the backing of the still very powerful executive president (i.e. post 19th Amendment),...
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Dissolved: The Parliament. No tears over a bunch of people who didn’t exactly cover themselves in glory having to come begging to us for votes. Dissolved: The 20th Amendment. This is not only sad...
View ArticleThe President’s moral obligations
President Maithripala Sirisena has reason to be grateful to Ranil Wickremesinghe and the UNP. True, gratitude-reason is a two-way street, but we are talking of the President, what he owes and to whom....
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Rev Maduluwawe Sobitha Thero’s Amazing Logic
So it's not about good governance but a UNP government, haamuduruwane?Rev Maduluwawe Sobitha Thero was one of the strongest advocates of ‘good governance’ and therefore lent weight and slogan both to...
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Are you sure about those selfies?
While you take selfies others may take you!This is the thirty fifth in a series of articles on rebels and rebellion written for the FREE section of 'The Nation'. Scroll to the end for other articles in...
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Lessons of the ‘7-times table’
This is the thirty fifth in a series I am writing for the JEANS section of 'The Nation'. The series is for children. Adults consider yourselves warned...you might re-discover a child within you!...
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Maithripala as prop and pin-up
We don't know if everyone who voted for Maithripala actually believed that Parliament would be dissolved in late April, i.e. when the much talked of and now hardly ever mentioned ‘100 Days’ came to an...
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විසුරුවනු ලැබිණ!
මහා ජන ගඟට එක් වූවෝ මහා වංචාවකට සම්මාදම් වූ බව කනගාටුවෙන් ප්‍රකාශ කර සිටිමුවිසුරුවනු ලැබිණ: පාර්ලිමේන්තුව. 2010 සිට අද වනතුරු ජනතාවට කොකා පෙන්නපු ආණ්ඩු පක්ෂවලත් විපක්ෂවලත් මන්ත්‍රීවරුන්ට නැවත වරක්...
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The greening of the media
The absence of media freedom and the violation of the rights of media personnel were a constant lament articulated by the then Opposition during the previous regime. The restoration of freedoms and...
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Maithripala, Mahinda and the SLFP’s democracy-deficits
So Maithripala Sirisena blinked first. The merits and demerits will no doubt be debated at length. Neither is it a done deal. He who blinks and also open eyes. Sirisena is no less seasoned than...
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