by Ruwanthi Abeyakoon ‘Ode to Autumn’ by the famous English Romantic poet John Keats, is what comes to my mind as I travel down the High Level Road. For Keats it was the vines and the apple trees that were loaded and blessed abundantly with fruit but here in Sri Lanka it is all about [...]
Archive of entries posted on 4th July 2012
Manipay Green Memorial Hospital notches 165 years
by Chelvathamby Maniccavasagar The Green Memorial Hospital which is located in Manipay was founded in 1847 by Dr Samuel Fiske Green, a young medical graduate from New York, United States, which was later renamed as Green Memorial Hospital in his honour. This mission hospital was the first medical school in Sri Lanka taking in the [...]
Political and Ethical Issues in Setting up an Engineering Faculty for The Jaffna University-1
by Dr. S. Ratnajeevan.H.Hoole Dr. S. Ratnajeevan.H.Hoole is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University,USA. He was formerly the Vice- Chancellor of the University of Jaffna and also University Grants Commission Coordinator for Engineering at the Jaffna University. This paper titled “Location of an Engineering Faculty in Sri Lanka: The Unusual Criteria [...]
Attitudinal change, and not constitutional bickering, is what we need for ethnic harmony
by Sebastian Rasalingam Please permit me to comment on the article published in your columns on 2 July 2012 by Mr. Hemantha Warnakulasuriya (HW), entitled “The systemic denial of Justice to Tamils in the judicial sphere”. Mr HW recounts the harrowing story of 15 estate Tamils who had come to the capital in search of [...]
If Rolex makes Wimbledon Great, then what makes Rolex Great?
By Chackravarthy ‘What makes Wimbledon great?’. This is how Rolex watch that sponsors the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament, spending multimillions of sterling pounds, asks in its advertising campaign. Of course Rolex makes Wimbledon great. But what makes Rolex great? Come to the last line of the article. Tourneau in Madison Ave, NYC – a luxury watch [...]
It is duty of Opposition in Democratic Countries to show right path to The Govt
by Karu Jayasuriya MP We came across media reports stating that the attention of the President and the general public has been drawn to the breakdown of law and order, wave of murders and related incidents which occurred during the past few days. There was a huge outcry in the country regarding the murder of [...]
Indian Presidential poll: Possibilities,Prospects and Problems
by N Sathiya Moorthy Independent of the results, which seem to be a foregone conclusion at the moment, the run-up to the presidential poll has exposed chinks in the rival alliances, existing and prospective. At one stage, the presidential poll was also seen as a forerunner to the parliamentary elections that are due in 2014, [...]
International Diplomacy is not undertaken in the same manner as Domestic Political Theatrics
by Shanaka Jayasekara Foreign policy of a country is formulated to advance the national interest and achieve the best possible outcome. Unfortunately, in Sri Lanka foreign policy is not determined by national interest but by irrational interest. If we accept the notion that the government’s blueprint for overall policy making is the Mahinda Chinthana, then [...]
Stalled coal fired power plant project can be shifted to Noracholai or Hambantota
By Dr Tilak Siyambalapitiya We never seem to learn! Sri Lanka messed around with the Norochcholai coal-fired power plant over 1993-2005, and we still pay for the sins of the politicians, religious leaders and NGOs that blocked the vital power plant. Today, as stated by the Honourable Minister himself, the country would be reeling with [...]
Naval Commodore (retd) Nadarajah Kuruparan Case in Canada: Text of Judgement
Date: 2012-06-13 Docket: IMM-3842-11 Citation: 2012 FC 745 Ottawa, Ontario, June 13, 2012 PRESENT: The Honourable Mr. Justice O’Keefe BETWEEN: NADARAJAH KURUPARAN BAHMINI KURUPARAN MAIYURAN KURUPARAN KIRUSHANTHY KURUPARAN Applicants and THE MINISTER OF CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION Respondent REASONS FOR JUDGMENT AND JUDGMENT [1] This is an application pursuant to subsection 72(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, [...]
