Mahinda Ranil Score Lines – Time Ripe for Ranil to Win? And is MS Making a Bid to Collect his Value? Presidential Elections Ranil (latest first) WLLL Mahinda LWWW Parliamentary Ranil (latest first) LLWL Mahinda WWLW Is there momentum on one side, a trend depicting capacity to win? Clearly each election has unique features and is situated ...
Ranil and MR to form National Government Ranil and MR have met to cement their impending electoral positions within a national government and they have indicated to the President their intention. MR and Ranil will share the office of Prime Minister in turn. The TNA and JVP have expressed their concern and so has the SLMC. The National Government, a ...
The Federation of Teachers Associations (FUTA) of the public universities in Sri Lanka has raised an important question that is about ethics in public service. FUTA is asking that the Chairperson of the University Grants Commission resign from her post due to unethical conduct. The primary objective of the UGC is to plan and coordinate university education to confirm to national ...
Well, our next Prime Minister might be a Volkswagen, definitely not a Lamborghini. Although there are many Sri Lankans working in Italy, the Italians are not in this except through that other group, the Vatican, and that is now Argentine. We are reading about self-driving cars. Tracks are being laid and cars are being tested in Europe and the US. ...
Tissa we love you please come back to us! Yes? Or is it, I am Tissa remember me? Please take me back! The former General Secretary of the United National Party (UNP), yes, the one who crossed over to the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, says now that he regrets his decision to leave the UNP. These things happen. Does it ...
Hang on, here we go again! The MR money may not have been all spent on a single roll of the Presidential Poll. There may be much more money left squirrelled away, not in the Seychelles or Dubai but where the hand can reach it. Maybe more money-making schemes away from the public eye have been quietly churning out, money, ...
NUTA Knows! A New Union of Teachers to Bring Back MR “Did you hear that some university Dons here in Sri Lanka have formed a new union and have sworn to bring back MR?” “Bring MR back, as in Back?” “Yes, that is it” “Wow! What do they call themselves? LOOTA? Nah! Can’t be LOOTA?” “No! No! No No No!!! ...
And the Winner is…. All Under Heaven Once upon a time… With 47.4% of the vote (plus or minus 2 percent) the incumbent, Mahinda Rajapaksa relinquished the presidency to the challenger Maithripala Sirisena. Really? Well not quite. This is based on assumptions that may not be borne out. Using a simple model of the electorate and simplifying assumptions I arrive ...
An International Government for Sri Lanka! Now! “It’s all a bloody circus mates and the clowns are in control!”[1] Amateurs make revolutions and professionals make Coup d’état! Yes? Well then what about the revolutions that did not fail, who made them? We are all amateurs in some field and citizens make up for what professional politicians are unable to do. ...
Cricket: Is Sri Lanka in a Bungle Daze? What is happening to Sri Lanka Cricket? Is this the Bungle Daze of our times or is it the time of Bungle Days, stretching into months and perhaps years? Now the Indians are here. Why are we seemingly bungling? Or is it simply the nature of things? When the stalwarts are gone, ...
Reclaim the Symbol! Swastika! Swastika! Ancient symbol Of well-being and Sun energy Why is it the property of evil? Clockwise and back The balance, Forward and back, Day and Night. Symbol of renewal light energy Symbol of night energy I want to take it back for all of us. Can I come into a synagogue? Into a church, temple, school, ...
Has this “democratic moment” for Sri Lanka passed? Has the democratic moment passed? Yes, the recent one? Has the train left the station, with a swirl of candy wrappers, cigarette butts and empty drink cartons, and pieces of newsprint? And are we left with a fading wail of a once loud train horn notifying its journey to those in the ...
Genocide! What? Genocide! Yes, Genocide, here in Sri Lanka among us, under our feet, above our heads and over our shoulders! From the first, since independence, Genocide! The Northern Provide Provincial Council has tabled and passed a resolution stating that since independence the Sri Lanka state committed Genocide against the Sri Lanka Tamils. That’s it. It is done. No going ...
The Fault is in the stars! What? I mean if the planetary arrangement at present is faulty, not fawltry, what can be done short of removing oneself from that arrangement? Strangely, some people blame the stars for being, well, being where they are when they should be some place else. From what we know, and this knowing business started as ...
Animal Palm The Presidential Election in Sri Lanka, whew! Were the voters mostly sheep, goats, lions with some tigers prowling about? Especially those who voted for MS? Well let us see. MR received about 300 thousand votes less than he did in 2010 while the voter base increased by almost a million to over 15 million. There would have been ...
An International Government for Sri Lanka! Now! “It’s all a bloody circus mates and the clowns are in control!”[1] Amateurs make revolutions and professionals make Coup d’état! Yes? Well then what about the revolutions that did not fail, who made them? We are all amateurs in some field and citizens make up for what professional politicians are unable to do. ...
Lest We Forget – Another Woman Killed by A Mob of Males “..an official in the Ministry of Religious Affairs said the attack on Farkhunda might have been justified if she actually did what she was accused of.”[1] A young woman was stoned, beaten and set on fire in Kabul on the 19th of March. The vile mob that killed ...
Freedom of Information now! Yes, Sri Lanka needs a law that addresses the issue freedom of information. While professional groups are toiling to craft the legal enactments I suspect political party leaders are smirking or better, sighing a deep sigh of relief, safe yet again! A good misdirection! Perhaps it is. Sharing information about public actions of government is necessary ...
Name them All! The answers Are not only figured in the drift of stars, But also in what we choose to do. When do we learn, To add behind a name, A descriptor of race? Why do we do it? Bill, a black man was shot today, While walking through a park. Seth, a Jew, was a successful academic. Billy ...
A great opportunity for Sri Lanka to Assist Nepal, Propose a Major Sino-Indian Nepal recovery Program The earthquake tragedy of Nepal is heart rending. Nature has exerted its own order easily overwhelming human endeavor. We wish the Nepali people all resolve and strength and add our resources and effort to enable them to recover and regain their lives. May you ...