September - December 1996

• 29th December 1996
  Democracy: no doubt enslaved * An open letter to the Health Minister * Humps on highways * Death: food for thought * Dairy development in Sri Lanka * Going against God * Punish those road hogs
• 22nd December 1996
  Well said President * True meaning of 'Apostasy' in Islam * * A welcome move in Yala
• 15th December 1996
  Whither LTTE? Why Devolution? * Devolution and the Parliamentary Select Committee * Teaching standards and the Education Dept
• 8th December 1996
  Road-building - Sri Lankan style * Eye-opener for teachers * Speed traps: Colombo Traffic Chief replies * Kandy's subways: a monumental folly * Books for Jaffna Library * Are all the 'Gates' to the City guarded? * Confusion over time change * Buddhism and Pirith * Thank you for AJR tapes * JRJ's Funeral * Apostasy among Muslims
• 1st December 1996
  Dam Upper Kotmale and damn Mother Lanka * Lankan cricket going downhill * Fundamental rights,budget and PAYE * First lady judge: not quite * We must play our part in the Peace process
• 24th November 1996
  Handapanagala Elephants * Human Rights - more visibly * Ignorance amongst vegetarians * Ingratitude to a great cricket coach * Pollution of Bolgoda Lake * "Pooja" is an offering
• 17th November 1996
  We can't be indifferent to inhuman acts*Visa requirements for Lankan expats
• 10th November 1996
  Help rebuild the Jaffna Library * Child sex: Relief Foundation write * The 'smiling craters' of Narahenpita * The horrendous tragedy of Krishanthi * Whither the SLBC?
• 3rd November 1996
  Airport 'back on course' * GG(Snr.) and the Tamils * Bentota: a lost paradise * Electricity supply to Nawala: does anyone care? * Beware! They are not honourable
• 27th October 1996
  Take action to recover those firearms * Discipline bus crews * Yellow semi-luxury buses * The ailing dairy industry * The Tamil problem: what are the tests of nationhood? * Don't rob yourself * Underground road crossings in Kandy * Justice denied to tenant * Stagnant drain along 7th X Road, Panadura
• 20th October 1996
  Pathetic plight of pensioners * The Cricket Board must answer these questions * Doctors: their duties and tribulations * Poya Day programmes on TV * Inland fisheries and religious constraints
• 13th October 1996
  Curtail these avoidable subsidies * India should help disarm LTTE * Provoking revolt * Give us a better service * "GG (Sr.) did the correct thing" * Pollution and Public Nuisance in Kotte U.C. AreaCure this disease once and for all
• 6th October 1996
  Pita Kotte Road: an inferno * Devolution will only divide Lanka * Politicised judiciary * Dr. Gamani Corea * Inland fisheries and Buddhism * Protect the people from this big racket * Hale-Bopp Comet: some facts
• 29 September 1996
  Handapanagala - the last trumpet * An anti-Buddhist trade * Urgent remedial measures needed * The chaos at Ayurvedic Hospital * Well done world Champs * What above Dave Whatmore? * Moratuwa is Stinking * Inactivity of C.E.A. and Kotte UC
• 22 September 1996
  Strategy for Development and Priorities * Enter politicians and ruin cricket * Shortcomings of provincial council system * Advertisement for post of Vice Chancellor * Thank God for Cricket * Plight of the pensioners * Revision of pensions * A bitter dose of medicine! * Animal slaughter and consumption of meat
• 15 September 1996
  Cricket! what about the war footing? * Cricketers remember our armed forces * Keep that 'sop', we will die in dignity * Observations of a patient at the National Hospital * Unwanted anti-social practices * A third Bheeshana Samaya? * Security in villages
• 8th September 1996
  Memories of beautiful Sri Lanka * Bring justice within reach of all * The war on subsidies * Let us not mutilate this enchanted land * In-Service Advisors in English fully competent
• 1st September 1996

May - August 1996

• 25th August 1996
  Re-introduce English medium also in schools * Inland Fisheries: a threat to Buddhism * This war just cannot drag on for ever * Let's wake up from our deep deep slumber
• 18th August 1996
  The working of the Party system in Sri Lanka * Compute all pensions on basis of 100 percent of retiring salary * General Practitioners can give jobs to new Doctors * Do away with night power cuts * Our cricketers and our soldiers * SLBFE clarifies * Outdated method of teaching English
• 11th August 1996
  Message from Religious Superiors' Conference * Miss: World: organisers clarify readers' misconceptions * Try Prabha for war crimes * Make the world a happier place to live in
• 4th August 1996
  The challenge before the nation * SWRD on Democracy in Asian Countries * Ethnic conflict and inaccurate expressions * Whom are we to believe?
• 28th July 1996
  Crime wave primarily due to lenient punishment * Beauty and the beasts * Uncle Sam' has lost a friend * Discipline: the need of the hour * Authorities seem to confuse 'race' with 'authority'
• 21st July 1996
  Eelam: nurtured over the last 75 years * Devolution will only divide country * Executive Presidency * Peace: conceptual differences carry the day * Ever dwindling standard of English * Bartleet's management
• 14th July 1996
  Give up eating meat and embrace vegeratarianism * Power crisis: words without action * Present power cut unprecedented * Will they never learn? * Kuruwita mills not closed
• 7th July 1996
  This country cannot endure any more bloodshed * Appeal from B'caloa livestock breeders * Stop the cruel Handapanagala elephant drive * Vasudeva writes * Travails of the poor litigant * What is national: Sri Lankan or Sinhala Buddhist? * Trade Unions cannot hold country to ransom over Govt. policy matters
• 30th June 1996
  Why is Palitha Sidelined? * Kate Pittu for the Media * Restore age of retirement to 60 years * The Lankan logic * Let harmonious relationship between man and beast continue * Sri Lanka should learn a lesson from India * A flaw in privatization
• 23rd June 1996
  Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander
• 16th June 1996
  Deforestation going on unabated * Nationalism: politician's handy tool * Tamil Nadu is the Lankan Tamil Politician's Eelam * Implement Samurdhi programme in B'caloa
• 9th June 1996
  Northerners Want Compensation * Paddylands act 1959: long outdated * Puttalam Cement Co. and the SEC * Cut down procedures which tend to delay Court cases
• 2nd June 1996
  Import 155-seater double deckers to reduce overcrowding in buses * Credibility of the UN * Those off-season locals * Please stop splitting hairs over traditional words * What the Buddha taught * The Politico's Bread * The Benign Doctor
• 26th May 1996
  Ban strikes till war is on * Give power top priorityDiagnose the sickness to give the prescription * 'Free media' is Western media * Puttalam Cement DG clarifies * Unloading the civil servants who do not serve
• 19th May 1996
  The terrorist dilemma * The Magnetic draw of Valikamam * The NSSP May Day procession * Puttalam Cement: about turn by SEC
• 5th May 1996
  We are not LTTE supporters * An open letter to Prahha

February - April 1996

• 28th April 1996
  Deeds and not words needed * Bridging the communal gap * Pearl of the orient now shedding tears of blood * Avert an ecological disaster * What despicable hypocrisy? * Lanka plagued with "Mad Bull Disease"