On the 7th of October 2010 the No Confidence motion put forward by the UNP against Minister of External Affair G.L.Peiris was defeated by 107 votes. I am not going to be writing on the failures of G.L. and why the No Confidence motion was the right move. Instead I am going to highlight the lack of support the UNP ...
I played a game of golf today after a few weeks and it did not take me long to remember why I love this game. Golf unlike many other sports is an opportunity for a you to escape into your own little world. While you are on the course it is just you and the field, rarely are people around ...
This article is written in reference to myself as I am now faced with a situation where all the goals and aspirations that seemed a certainty not too long ago are now looking less and less attractive. It is close on a year ago that I was back in Australia finishing my degree. At the time all I could do ...
For the past few weeks I have been asking people to join the Samagi Youth Corp, and rightly so many of them have asked me what exactly is the Samagi and what are the goals of the Samagi Youth. I am taking this time to write a brief summary of what the Samagi is and how the youth corp will ...
Sixty-five years on since the United Nations General Assembly voted to partition a territory in the Middle East into a Jewish state and an Arab State, the state of Palestine has been officially recognised by the UN. While the state of Israel was admitted as a member of the UN back in 1949, it took the very people that created ...
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. ...
Egypt’s newly instated President, Mohamed Morsi, successfully orchestrated a ceasefire between Palestine and Israel this past week. In doing so he has announced himself as a key player in the post Arab Spring Middle East. For many outside of Egypt, Morsi was a relatively unknown character prior to the ousting of Hosni Mubarak in 2011. Despite being a political figure ...
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 ...