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by Charitha Ratwatte The Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary defines ‘reconcile’ as ‘finding an acceptable way of dealing with two or more ideas that seem to be opposed to each other’. Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II shakes hands with Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister and former IRA commander Martin McGuinness as First minister Peter Robinson looks on [...]

By S.S Selvanayagam In view of the undertakings given by the State, the Writ application filed in the Court of Appeal challenging the impugned controversial Land Circular on the management of land in North East withdrawn yesterday. A Writ petition had been filed by TNA Parliamentarian M.A Sumanthiran challenging the said controversial Land Circular. The [...]

by Arthur Wamanan General Secretary of Citizen’s Front and Parliamentarian J. Sri Ranga charged that Tamil politicians were taking people for a ride for their own benefits. In an interview to The Nation, Ranga said the likes of Tamil National Alliance (TNA) misled the people and were not genuine on going for a political solution [...]

by FLORET When the British took over the island in 1796, Colombo had a population of 4,700. In the city of Colombo, there were horse driven carriages, bullock carts and rickshaws. This was a time when ladies wore long gowns and had feathered hats. Most of the gentlemen had long whiskers and top hats. There [...]

by Carlo Fonseka Victor Ratnayake, the much loved reigning King in the Kingdom of Sinhala music, is the creator of the all time musical extravaganza called Sa. By a very wide margin Sa has proved to be the greatest solo song show in Sri Lanka’s recorded history. Those who listen to Sinhala music and have [...]

by Rajpal Abeynayake A Sunday newspaper last week alleged that the said newspaper’s female editor had called the defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa to clarify a story about a matter allegedly involving him — and that the defence secretary had abused her in unparliamentarily language, and also threatened her. Certain media rights groups have meanwhile taken [...]

by Gamini Weerakoon The uprooting of the Bandaranaike colossus that towered over Galle Face and its environs brought to our mind a poem we learned in the Fifth Form more than half century ago on the fickleness of immortality – Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley: I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said [...]

by Dr. Vickramabahu Karunaratne All democratic organizations vehemently condemned the unlawful killing of political prisoner Nimalaruban, without any trial, at the Vavuniya prison. Everybody in the north as well as in the south understands that he and other prisoners were severely assaulted and beaten with iron rods by the police and others, while they were [...]

By Tisaranee Gunasekara “The answer to bad speech his nearly always better speech and those who argue otherwise rarely create countries worth living in” Nick Cohen (Standpoint – 14.7.2012) The Rajapaksa government is going hell for leather not against child rapists or murderers. The Rajapaksa government is going hell for leather against journalists.

By Raymond Stock Closing a celebration on June 30, 2012 for his swearing-in as what the world hailed as Egypt’s first civilian, freely elected president, Mohammed Mursi declared, “We will not look back, nor will we look beneath our feet, but we will look forward always.” Mohamed Morsi supporters celebrate his initial victory in the [...]