BY PANCHAMEE HEWAVISSENTI Global Sri Lankan Forum (GSLF) was formed in 2016 by Sri Lankan citizens living abroad, with the intention of representing the country in the international arena. Ajantha Premaratna, Project Coordinator for GSLF in an interview with Ceylon Today said that with the eradication of terrorism in 2009,...
By Malinda Seneviratne There’s a descriptive that was liberally used not too long ago to describe Sri Lanka: “failed state”. Those who used that term not surprisingly were (at the time) ardent cheer-leaders of that 21st Century version of ‘White Man’s Burden,’ R2P (Responsibility to Protect). The ‘failed state,’ managed to record...
නලින් ද සිල්වා විසිනි කලකට ඉහත ටේරවෝ ලිං පවසා තිබුණේ ථෙරවාද බෞද්ධ රාජ්යය රජු, භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේ හා ජනතාව යන ගල් තුන මත රැඳුණු බවයි. රජු භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේට සිවුපසය ලබාදුන් අතර ජනතාවගේ වුවමනා එපාකම් බලා කියා ගත්තා. භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේ රජුට හා ජනතාවට අවවාද අනුශාසනා කළා. ජනතාව භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේට සිවුපසයෙන් සංග්රහ කළා....
by H. L. D. Mahindapala Lenin once said that Bernard Shaw was a good man fallen among the Fabians – a group of wishy-washy left-wingers whose airy-fairy politics was neither in capitalism nor in any kind of scientific socialism. It was, at best, a shade of state welfarism within...
