By Camelia Nathaniel Recent reports have indicated that many politicians act with impunity by disregarding the rule of law. This year alone legal action has been initiated against 42 politicians, most of them from the ruling party, for their involvement in various crimes. From the killing of a tourist to raping a 13-year-old and beating [...]
Archive of entries posted on 3rd September 2012
India’s Desire to Dominate Sri Lanka Should be Analyzed From a Historical Perspective
By Udaya Gammanpila India is very lucky. When India dreams of influencing Sri Lanka, it gets opportunities without much effort. The latest is its appointment to a panel by the United Nation’s Human Rights Commissioner, Ms Navaneethan Pillai. She appointed a panel consisting of three nations to assess the progress made by Sri Lanka in [...]
Economic Affairs Ministry Has No Clear Boundaries Separating It From Other Ministries – Basil Rajapaksa
(Minister of Economic Development, Basil Rajapaksa, describing himself as a generally silent person, says he is doing a silent job stabilizing the country’s economy. In an interview with Ceylon Today’s sister paper Mawbima, he speaks extensively on a range of issues including his electorate Gampaha, his political career, the current state of the Indo-Lanka relations [...]
Stone Tablet Gifted in 1409 by Chinese Navigator Zhenghe during stopover in Sri Lanka has Chinese,Persian and Tamil Languages Carved on it
by Gen. Liang Guanglie (Text of speech made by Gen Liang Guanglie, State Councillor and Minister of National Defence of the People’s Republic of China at the Defence Services Command and Staff College of Sri Lanka on August 30, 2012 It gives me great pleasure to visit Sri Lanka and meet with all the friends [...]
Arundhati Roy:”The Cinderella who Gladly Smashed her Glass Slippers”
By Dilrukshi Handunnetti (Celebrity author, columnist and activist Arundhati Roy speaks to s Handunnetti about being labelled a ‘negative writer’, of informed and engaged citizenry, casteism, feminism and the joy of being published in the local languages) Her reputation as a ‘rebel writer’ is something that makes Arundhati Roy glow. “It must be that child [...]
While FUTA’s Chief Concern is Education the Movement it has Spurred Promises to Nurture Democracy in Sri Lanka
By Shamala Kumar The university system in Sri Lanka is at a standstill. The Federation of University Teachers’ Associations (FUTA), the umbrella body of 43 university teachers’ trade unions, is attempting to negotiate with a government that sees even the acknowledgement of FUTA’s position as a threat to its power and control.
