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Two ministers to counter Ananthi’s ‘genocide’ charge Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Northern Provincial Councillor Ananthi Shashitharan is perhaps one among few opposition politicians who have come under severe criticism from the Cabinet of ministers.This came after her speech at a side event during last month’s UN Human Rights Council sessions in Geneva. Speaking in English [...]
Multimillion dollar Avurudu gifts for Hambantota
As another National New Year dawns, the movers and shakers of the UPFA Government will be heading south. Ministers, military top brass, senior bureaucrats, commoners and family members will be there to greet President Mahinda Rajapaksa at his ancestral home in Meda Mulana, just 32 kilometres from Tangalle. The area, like other parts of the Hambantota [...]
Country first: A lesson from our cricketers
My Dear Sri Lankan Cricket team, I know you are extremely busy these days lapping up all the attention that is being lavished on you and accepting invitations to visit VIPs who want to be seen with you and photographed with you but still, I thought I must write to you at this historic time.First [...]
House in rare display of unity pays tribute, fetes Lanka’s T-20 World Cup champs
There was a rare show of unity in Parliament this week when legislators from all sides came together to pay tribute to the T-20 Cricket World Cup winning team who were invited to the Speaker’s Gallery of the House as special guests on Wednesday evening, and feted for their historic achievement. The players were given [...]
Lanka must guard against cricket ‘Doosra’
Oblivious in bliss to what horrors the morrow may hold, Lankans danced on the midnight streets in Colombo after Lanka pulled off a victory over India in a rain hampered damp final T20 cricket match played in Bangladesh last Sunday. Finally with Thisara Perera’s match-winning six, India’s insufferable insults delivered unlimited during the last few [...]
Winning the T20 World Cup: When will we learn from our cricketing success?
Today we celebrate the National New Year: in a backdrop of Sri Lanka’s superb victory at the World T20 Cricket Championship. Winning this World Cup has added to the elation of the country’s cricket crazy populace and enhanced the nation’s enjoyment of the New Year sans class, community or creed. Will we ever learn the [...]
Does India’s abstention at UNHRC open up the middle ground?
The reasons for India’s decision to abstain during the vote on the US resolution against Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council have been articulated by Indian officials and diplomats on different occasions and in different forums, both in India and in Sri Lanka, since the resolution was adopted last month. A day after [...]
Our fairy tales and an explosion of religious hatred
Not even during the entire three decades of the war between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and government troops has communalism and race hatred been displayed so openly by Government protected groups of men wearing yellow robes as in these most unhappy times. BBS being let out like a genie from a bottle [...]