“The human dilemma is not whether to do right or wrong but rather to do right when it matters the most and wrong when it matters the least.”- Unknown writer
They are dead
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE) are dead. The war was won and the guns have fallen silent. But the drums keep beating and
clarion […]

Finally, a pragmatic perception, however episodic, of reality– and a prudent policy move results. With President Rajapaksa’s decision to
announce the holding of the election to the Northern Provincial Council after almost a quarter of a century (taken together with the re-arrest of the suspects in the murder of the Trinco 5), Sri Lanka seems about […]

“Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;”
~Henry Ward Beecher
Tragic flaw
From the time Sri Lanka gained Independence from the colonial powers, all Sri Lankan political leaders, barring none, have been
indulging […]

“In sooth this was a very base madness and a most horrible frenzy.”
Anatole France (Monsieur Bergeret in Paris)
‘Nationalist Collective’ is the latest Rajapaksa-concoction, a toxic brew of fanatics and opportunists, ladled together in an effort to
convince Delhi that Sri Lanka is being inundated by a spontaneous anti-devolution wave. Addressing its inaugural rally, Rev. Galagoda-Atte Gnanasara […]

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance
As those move easier who have learned to dance
-Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism
Recently there were media reports that leaders of cultural, educational, welfare, sports, youth and political associations in Paris gathered at the Embassy of Sri Lanka in France to meet and greet Sri Lanka’s Ambassador. […]

“Brazil has a female president and a police chief, and staffs many of its political stations with women, promoting women’s rights. And, yet “public rapes”, especially of poor women, are increasing. Similar truths exist in India. The brutal rape and death of a paramedical student in a moving bus in New Delhi mobilised massive anti-rape […]

Reluctant
The government is continuing to give indications of its reluctance to establish a provincial council in the Northern Province with the devolved powers as provided by the 13th Amendment. The main concern articulated by government spokespersons has been the danger
that a Tamil-led provincial council in the former war zone of the North might pose […]

“Religions may begin as vehicles of longing for mysteries beyond description but they end up claiming exclusive prescriptive rights to them” – Richard Holloway (New Statesman – 15.3.2012)
 
Burmese monk leader of anti Muslim terror
Last week Myanmar banned the latest issue of ‘Time’ with its cover-story on the violent creed of Ashin Wirathu, the Burmese monk […]

“Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.”
~Francis Bacon
Wrapped in the National Flag to cover all the sins that they commit without a break, the present regime and its chief ‘comrades-in-arms’ are not stopping their outlandish pillaging of the county’s coffers. Corruption has become a second nature […]

“Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know”- Aldous Huxely (Ends and Means)
Almost 60 fishermen died at sea, because the authorities failed to warn about an impending storm.
No one accepted responsibility, no one apologised and no one resigned.
 
A Deputy Inspector General of Police was arrested for abducting and murdering a […]