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Mohamed Hisham, Co-Spokesperson, Rally for Unity begins the interview by saying why he chose to be associated with and helped co-found a group that openly and in public stands up against hate speech, in a country where most citizens are fearful of opposing policies, practices and bitter invective supported by the highest authorities in government aimed at minority groups ...

Northern Provincial Council Election and the Future of Lankan Tamil Politics (via http://www.groundviews.org) This year promises to be a decisive one for Lankan Tamils. Events that take place this year will considerably determine the future trajectory of Tamil politics. It is only a beginning where the end of the LTTE’s totalitarianism gives the Tamils opportunity to evaluate their nationalist ...

Just got a news alert that DIG Vaas Gunawardena is admitted to hospital due to an illness, after being arrested over the murder of a Bambalapitiya businessman and eight other murders. Yeah right, we didn’t even see that coming. It’s totally surprising. Damn, wow, what a coincidence. But I tell you what, this guy is not going to jail. That ...

Image courtesy The Australian The political opposition in Sri Lanka seems freshly energized if recent events are anything to go by. The UNP has formed some form of a broader opposition coalition through the “Viroda Vipakshaya” and released a draft constitution as a discussion document for public and civil society debate, while the JVP galvanized by the economic issue of the ...

Final Competition was held on 21st May 2013 at Cinnamon grand Colombo. These are the winners of this competition. From left to right Live and Learn Environmental Education – Maldives Shilpa Sayura Foundation – Sri Lanka Young Power in Social Action (YSPA) – Bangladesh YUWA- Nepal These winners were selected within eight of the finalists.

  Four years have passed since the end of the war. Indeed, the scenes from this year’s victory celebration event are still fresh in our minds. We are told that the country is free. But, little has changed for the ‘liberated’ people. One only has to travel via Omanthai (on A9) in public transport to understand what I mean. It was ...

Laying the foundation for young business enthusiasts, exposing them to the best of business, creating awareness about the trends and issues in development and connecting youth from various backgrounds in order to identify effective means to build a peaceful and sustainable nation, the Sri Lanka Youth to Business Forum was successfully concluded by AIESEC Sri

XXXXThere is a lot of interest in Gold specially after the spectacular drop in price on Friday April 12th this year (2013). There are many opinions on whether gold price will drop further (e.g. Nouriel Roubini) or gold will go higher (e.g. Jim Rogers and Marc Faber). This post is not investment advice, but educational in what you should be ...

Image from Sunday Leader First, I want to convey my deepest sympathies to the family and friends of late Venerable Bōwatte Indrarathana (VBI) for the shocking and untimely way he embraced his death on the most venerable day of the Buddhist calendar. No amount of academic analysis will bring a life back. However, we must move on and learn ...

Recently one of my truly Sri Lankan aunts asked me how to help her niece with her baby. After listening to her long explanation on how the niece refuses her help and how she think the niece should have listen to her advice, and how she thinks that niece is not a good mother, I told her "may be the best ...

The Nokia Lumia 520 is an Entry Level Smartphone Windows Phone 8 device manufactured by Nokia. It was announced at the 2013 Mobile World Congress along with another device, the Nokia Lumia 720. The Nokia Lumia 521 supports 4G (but not LTE) and has a sensitive 4-inch screen, a 5-megapixel camera with 720p HD video capture, and the full helping of Nokia’s Windows Phone apps. Some People Hunting Mobile Devices ...

Photo via IBN Live, taken by Reuters The Buddhist –Muslim relationship in Sri Lanka is centuries old. It grew from the pre-Islamic Arab relationship with Sri Lanka and continued beyond the advent of Islam. Principally, the Arabs who built vibrant trade relation with Sri Lanka put their roots here and made Sri Lanka a second home. With the advent ...

I have two Tamil friends. Their names are SriLankan Tamil and Tamil Sri Lankan. “Aren’t they the same?” you ask. No, the order in which the identifiers appear is significant, and is crucial for the rest of my story. My friend SriLankan Tamil (SLT for short) has the following take on the politics of Sri Lanka. History started on ...

මගේ කලින් සටහන සඳහා පාදක කර ගත්තු කරුණු දෙක තෝරා ගත්තේ හේතුවක් ඇතිව. හැබැයි අපට ඇඟිල්ලෙන් ඇහැට එන්නේ නැත්නම් එය තේරුම් යන්නේ නැහැ. දැන් මේ ප්‍රතිශක්තිකරණයට  එරෙහි වන පිරිස ජනගහනයෙන් ප්‍රතිශතයක් ලෙසට ගත්තොත් ඉතා සුළු පිරිසක්. මා ප්‍රතිශක්තිකරණය අඩු ප්‍රදේශ කියල කියන ඒවා ඇත්තටම විශාල දිස්ත්‍රික්කයන් නොවේ. ඒ අනුව මෙය විශාල සමාජ ප්‍රශ්නයක් බවට තවම පත් වෙලා නැහැ. මේවා ගැන කියවන්නේ ...

මගේ කලින් සටහන සඳහා පාදක කර ගත්තු කරුණු දෙක තෝරා ගත්තේ හේතුවක් ඇතිව. හැබැයි අපට ඇඟිල්ලෙන් ඇහැට එන්නේ නැත්නම් එය තේරුම් යන්නේ නැහැ. දැන් මේ ප්‍රතිශක්තිකරණයට  එරෙහි වන පිරිස ජනගහනයෙන් ප්‍රතිශතයක් ලෙසට ගත්තොත් ඉතා සුළු පිරිසක්. මා ප්‍රතිශක්තිකරණය අඩු ප්‍රදේශ කියල කියන ඒවා ඇත්තටම විශාල දිස්ත්‍රික්කයන් නොවේ. ඒ අනුව මෙය විශාල සමාජ ප්‍රශ්නයක් බවට තවම පත් වෙලා නැහැ. මේවා ගැන කියවන්නේ ...

5,081 people that is. The petition was created by a small group of concerned Sri Lankan citizens, following the systematic harassment of minority communities around the island over the past few months. What started out with banning Halal food, rapidly developed into arson attacks on Muslim owned businesses, defacing of Mosques and attacks on Churches. That’s […]

I have seen many students struggling with their school work. All they need is just some help – a tutor. In most cases we as parents may not be able to tutor our children, because of the time constraint or maybe because we do not have enough knowledge. It is going to be really expensive to pay for one-to-one ...

“Sri Lanka remains deeply concerned that the lack of financial independence of the OHCHR also leads to disproportionate attention being paid to country-specific action in the Council which selectively targets some countries, while situations, human rights violations and restrictive practices in other parts of the world that warrant more urgent and immediate attention and action remain conveniently ignored,” said the ...

Image courtesy Christian Science Monitor This year’s Bishop Cyril Abeynaike Memorial Oration was a fascinating talk on some aspects of globalization by Dr. Harsha Athurupane.  He spoke mostly of the benefits of globalization but also mentioned some possible ill effects.  In an ideal globalized world, people, goods, services, knowledge, information and technology should move freely across of globe.  But ...