Yearly Archive: 2017

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Imperatives under Article 83 for a new constitution

By Neville Ladduwahetty MP Dr. Jayampathy Wickramaratne P.C. during the course of an interview had stated: “We must go for a referendum if we are to introduce a new Constitution. For example, if we want to change even a comma in Article 83 of the Constitution, we must go for...

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Grapes of wrath and the elixir of compassion

By Rohana R. Wasala   Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fatal lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on. From ‘The Battle-hymn of the Republic’...

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Why we mustn’t move a millimetre beyond the 13th amendment

By Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA   “Many Sinhalese … forget that the Tamils of the North and East occupied our Island even before the birth of Buddha … Long before the Sinhalese language was born out of Pali, Tamil and indigenous dialects, the Tamil Dravidians have been occupying this land for centuries…” Chief Minister CV...

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The Third Deadly Event of the First Independence Day

By H. L. D. Mahindapala Part II – continued from…….. It  is by looking back that one  can detect how coming events had cast their shadows across the political landscape in Sri Lanka on the first Independence Day. In the previous article I showed how the two major events that...