The planetary preferences of yahapalana apologists
A self-proclaimed Marxist recently listed 12 things that the Yahapalana Government cannot achieve. He should have put it this way: ‘should but cannot achieve’. As someone who once said ‘we must hope...
View ArticleThe Malwatte Mahanayake Thero and yahapalana devolution machinations
The Mahanayake of the Malwatte Chapter of the Siyam Nikaya, the Most Venerable Thibbatuwawe Sri Siddhartha Sumangala Thero was spot on about proposals to change the constitution. The Venerable Thero...
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The democracy deficits within
They have more to contemplate than the Joint Opposition!Politics is about power. Rhetoric is frill. Objection on grounds of morality, unconstitutionality, illegality etc., with chest-beating to...
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The quiet and shout of the racist label
Wigneswaran is ok, really!The Chief Minister of the Central Province has stated that Hindu and Muslim encroachment as well as Christianization has to end. Right now. The Chief Minister of the Western...
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සර්පයා සමග සංසාරාරණ්‍යයේ දඩයමක
මීට වසර කිහිපයකට පෙර මා මිත්‍ර කේ.කේ.සමන් කුමාර (සර්පයා) මා සමග කළ සාකච්ඡාවක් (රාවය පුවත් පත සඳහා)මේ වන විට ‘ද නේෂන් ’ පුවත්පතේ සංස්කාරකවරයා වන, ඉංග්‍රීසි මෙන්ම සිංහල යන ද්විභාෂාවෙන්ම කටයුතු කරන...
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The intoxicating relations of (yahapalana) production
No, it's not only about Hydrogen, Carbon and Oxygen Here’s a nice Marxist definition of ‘relations of production’: The objective material relations that exist in any society independently of human...
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President Sirisena has spoken (on Eelamist myth-mongering)
There's no better proof that 'Eelamism'was a British creation than the fact that the 'Eelam Map' is a trace of arbitrary linesdrawn by the British.On many occasions when the issue of ‘homelands’...
View ArticleThe ‘National Question’ and the vague-speak of Tamil ‘moderates
There are some fundamental difference between moderates and extremists that go beyond the obvious degree of flexibility. Extremists are upfront, moderates are cagey. Extremists may believe (even if...
View Articleඊළමේ කයිවාරු රේඛා සහ බලය බෙදීමේ කෝලම
දුක්ගැනවිලි ඇත. හැමෝටම. අභිලාෂයන්ද ඇත. හැමෝටම. අභිලාෂයන් නිර්මාණය කිරීම ධනවාදයේ අනිවාර්යයකි. අභිලාෂයන් වැළඳගත් අය සටනට කැඳවීම දේශපාලනිකය. සුලබය. දුක්ගැනවිලි ප්‍රසාරණය කිරීමද, ප්‍රසාරණය කරන ලද...
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First, get the lines straightened out Jayampathy
Dr Jayampathy Wickramaratne, who is described as someone playing a pivotal role in the constitution-making process in his capacity as a member of the steering committee on the subject, has offered...
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Tariq Mahushukeen and the gates he walks through
It is never easy to find parking on Kumaratunga Munidasa Mawatha, better known as Thurstan Road for reasons that warrant another article, even when it is not under repairs. Even at night, there are...
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Words, deeds and devolution-fixations
The Foreign Minister, Mangala Samaraweera, has pleaded that action be taken more seriously than word. Speaking at a press briefing on the subject of a vote on a UNESCO resolution, Samaraweera...
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The two Wickramaratnes and the learning curves of Yahapalanaya
Eran Wickramaratne has said the Government is ready to amend existing laws to enable the recovery of losses incurred in the controversial sale of Central Bank bonds. This is good. Some may talk of...
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Amaradeva: a name for everything that is our little island
Pic by Sandra MackThere are rain clouds, not too dark and not threatening. It might rain later. There was rain last night. Tomorrow, there will be other clouds of similar shade. Non-threatening for...
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TRAIL 2016 and the unleashing of hope
Little drops love made an ocean of hope Mahela Jayawardena, former cricket captain of Sri Lanka wept. He recalled how his brother had died of cancer twenty years previously. Through his tears he...
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The limbs, eyes and lives of our (relatively) good times
Add captionIn the film ‘Doctor Zhivago,’ based on Boris Pasternak’s celebrated novel, there’s an argument between two officers of a Red Guard unit. One believes that Zhivago, who had been abducted by...
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Saundarie and Kishani: classically of the heart
Around three years worth of violin lessons from Eileen Prins and an equal number of years learning the piano from Mrs Niles meant a considerable number of hours ‘with music’ down School Lane,...
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Getting over Trump(ed)
"Peaceful Acceptance" of "people's will" there was NOT in 2008Kautilya, a religious bigot if ever there was one, nevertheless wrote an excellent treatise on state craft titled ‘Arthashastra’, one of...
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Camillus: the compassionate and trenchant fellow-citizen
What does a cartoonist have in common with a soccer player? Deftness, certainly. An eye for line and space. Innovation. Not all soccer players can draw and not all artists can dribble a football....
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Fidel, "free" markets, and the sauce with which we are being eaten
Fidel Castro is no more. He died today at the age of 90. Whether he is hero or villain, he certainly is historic. This cannot be disputed. The following article was published in the Sunday Island o...
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