He stood at the top of his mark, barely able to hold himself upright. A deep breath was taken and he came charging down, an in-swinging yorker upended middle stump and suddenly the crowd was brought to its feet. There was a sense that he had got something out of nothing. On the other end a man stood on his ...
For all those who have sat down to a broadcast of a game of cricket, you would have at some point or another been exposed to what I like to call the “Myths Of Cricket”. These in reality are simply comments or ideas that commentators and the media have instilled in the viewers of the game. Below are the top ...
Sri Lanka, and the government, is at crossroads regarding its future. On one side we have a path that could see us coming under a new regime with an unknown leadership, while on the other side there is a path that will see the Rajapaksa government strengthen their already iron grip over the politics in the country. However, sadly it ...
Election Day in the US will see millions of people around the country line up at polling stations ready to cast their vote. Unlike Sri Lanka, something I have noticed in the US is that the number of polling stations are far fewer and casting the vote itself would also take up to ten minutes. This means that people are ...
The state of Ohio is considered the biggest swing state in the 2012 US Presidential election. With 18 electoral votes up for grabs, both campaigns have been tirelessly wooing voters in the state for the past month. Recent polls show that as of Thursday (November 1) Barack Obama has a slender lead of 2 percentage points. However, early voting has ...
Before I even start this post, I have to point out that in no way is this an indication of support towards the current government. The Brits threw down the gauntlet, in a manner of speaking, when they allowed Mahinda Rajapaksa to be targeted by the Diaspora in the UK resulting in him cutting short his visit there last week. ...
With the monsoons having arrived many people are cursing the rain claiming it is ruining their crops, make the city dirty due to blocked drains, creating even worse traffic jams and overall ruining many people’s days. I am a fan of the rain, I would rather wake up to a grey sky then one that is clear blue with the ...
Cricket has come to that period where a generation says goodbye to the legends they grew up with. A few years back the world said farewell, albeit a little later than they expected, to Sanath Jayasuriya. Last year India’s most underrated batsman, Rahul Dravid, bowed out of international cricket; and today the world prepares to say goodbye to Ricky Ponting. ...
Sri Lanka’s reaction to the elegant Colin Cowdrey Lecture delivered by Kumar Sangakarra has crossed the boundary of pride to overkill. Sri Lankan’s in and outside the country showed their support to the lecture by quoting sangakarra on Facebook. A trend that has taken an upward surge in recent years. Media poured out accolades to the former skipper, complimenting him ...
I wrote an article the other day about religious intolerance around Asia and it prompted discussion both online and among friends. One of the interesting comments, which can also be seen on the article, was that I had been making “a mountain out of a mole-hill”. Now obviously I do not agree with this otherwise I would not have written the ...
Polling stations have closed in Ohio and now the public eagerly awaits the results of the key swing state. Ohio has 18 electoral votes up for grabs and whoever wins the state has been predicted as winning the 2012 Presidential election. To make matters more interesting, no Republican candidate has won the Presidential election without winning this state. Republican candidate ...
With the focus in Sri Lanka directed at the domestic situation, namely the rising cost of living and political instability, the country’s foreign policy has been forgotten with continual blunders on the part of the government. In March this year the country was faced with one of its biggest challenges on the international stage as they prepared for a vote ...
Election Day in the US will see millions of people around the country line up at polling stations ready to cast their vote. Unlike Sri Lanka, something I have noticed in the US is that the number of polling stations are far fewer and casting the vote itself would also take up to ten minutes. This means that people are ...
While the whole world prepares for the United States presidential election, many, both inside and outside America, are still unsure how the system works. The 2000 presidential election debacle involving George W. Bush and Al Gore fueled this confusion with Gore winning the popular vote but still failing to win the election. In the US, despite a candidate winning the ...
At 64 years, Marie Jenson has been a volunteer for the past 6 presidential elections in the Democrats’ camp. Back in 1988, while Democrat candidate Michael Dukakis was soundly beaten, winning only 111 electoral votes, Jenson was bitten by the election bug. “I was forty years old and a stay at home mother when I first volunteered. Elections were not ...
Hello everyone, it has been a long time since my last post. Courtesy of my girlfriend I have been pushed back into my blog. So I will use this post as a small re-cap of what I have been up to. Well back in October 2010 I was offered a position at a local newspaper as a journalist and grabbed ...
The idea of self-reliance is an attractive one. Everybody at some point in their life would like to feel as though they have achieved this state. Is it however possible to truly achieve self-reliance? Or is it a term we use to hide behind failing to really face reality? Why is self-reliance such a drug to the masses? The confidence that ...
A few months ago I sent in a few articles to a leading magazine. I explained that I would like to work with the magazine in attracting a different reader base. Both were rejected on the basis of being age discriminatory. Now what is age discrimination? The rejection letter explained that my article was aimed at the youth of Sri Lanka ...
What is that thing which those from the affluent families take for granted? What is it that we complained about so much when we were young? A good school. This is the one such thing that those children from the less fortunate families place a high value in. We have all been guilty at times of ...
Sri Lanka has once again been awarded 16th place in ‘Encouraging Gender Equality’ according to the Global Gender Gap Index. So well done to males all over Sri Lanka we have managed to show that Sri Lankan males are in fact able to accept women as equals. However does this mean that women have recognised gender equality is across the ...
