Here’s something that doesn’t add up, why is the government wasting time testing the water in Weliweriya, when tests were carried out months before? According to a report by the National Water Supply and Drainage Board, on 11 June tests were carried out to determine the physical and chemical quality of the water in the village. The report states that ...
Apparently, Miss Sri Lanka 2013 is ugly. Her features aren’t good enough to represent Sri Lanka, and she’s got dark skin (quite aside from the fact that most Sri Lankans are dark). Some people suspect foul play. They charge that the only way she could have won the ‘Miss Sri Lanka’ title is if she had some political backing ...
The only monkey wrench cast into the cogwheels of the Rally For Unity, was the circulation of leaflets opposing the highly publicised event. The leaflets contained the usual rhetoric, claiming that the organisers were traitors and that their facelessness should be of critical concern. Only the organisers weren’t faceless. Sure, they weren’t one body but a group of different ...
pic credit- Colombo Gazette And now the Jaffna office has been burnt down. The Government has been quick state this was a malicious act conducted by Uthayan to frame the government. Sure, Uthayan Newspapers which has been around since 1985– and which has continued to publish their paper even though they’ve been attacked, and journalists and staff killed– would set ...
To my right a man is hauled off by the police. He tries to resist but it’s futile as four policemen load him into a police jeep and drive off. I’m snapping away as the jeep speeds off into the distance, when a voice behind me asks, ‘what just happened?’ I explain to the man in a brown t-shirt, that ...
Dear Bodu Bala Sena, Over the past few months I’ve come to notice that you seem to dislike Halal meat. Perhaps you dined at a Halal restaurant and found the meat gamey. I can assure you though, that Halal meat is not too different from any other meat. What makes meat Halal is merely in the way the animal ...
…like this- Though it seems there are a few who believe the global One Billion Rising (OBR) campaign undermines the work of grassroot level organisation working on GBV (such as what this article expressed- Natalie Gyte). Or that it’s a campaign on a treadmill, like this comment on the Daily FT: In response to Natalie Gyte and Arvind, expecting a ...
I have a proposal to all those who drive in Sri Lanka. It’s a protest of sorts against a menace that has killed a few, left some severely injured, damaged vehicles and property, and angered even those who don’t drive. I’m writing about the army and police convoys that clear the streets for ministers, who seem to be in ...
…through the streets of Katmandu. A wider street in New Road, Kathmandu Almost racing to keep up, we’re following our Nepali friend cum tour/foody guide. We navigate through New Road (a Pettah-like) marketplace– weaving through dense crowds of people, squeezing through narrow alleys, leaping out of the way of crazy motorcyclists and chickens, dipping through hobbit-sized entrances that lead into (what seems ...
“Statistics have revealed that 1 in 3 women on the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime. With the world population at 7 billion, this adds up to more than ONE BILLION WOMEN AND GIRLS”. Another reason as to why I am rising, and this is what I stated in the One Billion Rising (OBR) South Asia video ...
Inadvertently of course. Though it’s quite sad that they campaign with such passion to be exactly what patriarchy (and capitalism) wants of women. Take slut-walk for instance. Sure, I agree that women should have the freedom to wear whatever they want and not be oogled or worse raped. But we all know that clothes have nothing to do with ...
Graffiti. The stuff we have in Sri Lanka ranges from school boys defaming other schools on random walls or spraying the name of their ex-girlfriends on walls and following it up with an expletive. Yeah, over here cans of spray paint are used for vandalism, revenge and defamation. Nothing pretty. But cities across the world, even our neighbour—India, have pretty ...
So the Sinhalaya Travellers have been lying low for a while. Well actually, they’ve been on a few trips, skirting the realm of Death, but the official blog-updaters (Jerry and Halik) have been rather preoccupied with listening to Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream and studies (respectively). Anyway, getting back to the point of the post, sometime last week or later… I ...
