I know a lot of atrocities must have happened during the war, especially towards the last few days of the war. There could have been killing civilians, raping women, robbing valuables from fleeing civilians, etc. During the ancient wars, this was called “the spoils of war.” Killing men, raping women, enslaving children, looting treasure were part and parcel of war. It ...
I never expected this futile war to end during my lifetime or during that of my son’s for that matter. But, thanks to the former president Mahinda Rajapaksa and the brave armed forces, the police force, the Civil Security Force and the citizens at large who sacrifices the unimaginable, the war ended for good on May 18, 2009, before ...
I am not trying to explain how the ethnic issue in Sri Lanka happened and the different perspectives to its root causes. I am only going to talk only about how I perceive it. I was born in 1972 in the village of Mahawilachchiya (in Anuradhapura District of Sri Lanka) bordering the Wilpattu National Park. Velupillai Prabhakaran, who went on to create and ...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa accepting a guard of honor The infamous 13th amendment was forced upon both the government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE terrorist outfit by India for a problem that would have been solved between the government and the terrorists. The said amendment was a solution that had no sensible approach at all. Both the government and the ...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa Even though the president earned a lot of appreciation by appointing a smaller interim cabinet soon after taking oath, within a few days he lost the very admiration by appointing a large number of state ministers, obviously the almost the whole lot of rogues. I understand that it is very difficult to keep the MPs happy but ...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa I am not an economist so we will have to wait and see how the recent tax reductions could help the economy in the long run. This is a gamble the new president is indulging in and the gamble should have a meaning beyond the forthcoming general and provincial council elections. But like everyone else, I too ...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa One main surprising difference is how both his admirers and even some of the distractors, largely the youths irrespective of petty ethnic, religious and class differences got together without any directions from the top started making the cities and the villages beautiful on their own initiative. I am not sure if such a reaction happened even once ...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa Earlier, I strongly believed that Sri Lanka had to elect a benevolent dictator who uses extreme powers to take Sri Lanka to the right track out of the present quagmire it is in but now I feel that Sri Lanka has to run like how a modern private corporation is run by a capable Chief Executive Officer. ...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa I originally wanted to publish this post to coincide with the completion of the new President Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s first month in his post. But I purposely delayed this as I didn’t want to sensationalize the president unnecessarily by getting carried away with what happened during his inaugural month in office. Besides, this had been the country ...
The below are a few pictures of the Jaffna lagoon, Sri Lanka. Fishermen use these fiberglass boats at night to go fishing in the sea. They go about 5 km from the shore into the Indian Ocean. Some who could afford, use outboard motors on their boats, but many just use oars to row the boats. In fact, I ...
I am not too sure with this law or tradition where the Members of Parliament (MPs) enjoy a special right or privilege when it comes to them being arrested as suspects of crimes. When an MP is to be arrested, the police need to inform (or is it get permission?) from the Speaker of the House. They say all ...
Swiss Embassy in Sri Lanka By Nanda Wanninayaka I don’t know what REALLY happened with the Sri Lankan employee who worked at the Swiss Embassy in Colombo. Nobody will ever know, would they? The embassy says one of their local employees was kidnapped, detained and was questioned for good two hours and then let go. But the Government of Sri ...
A Poster for a Tuition Class I have only three years’ experiences as a teacher of English at two state schools and only a few months’ experiences as a private tuition master. Had I continued as one, I might have become a millionaire by now if not a multimillionaire. But I chose not to. I was more comfortable in teaching ...
I had the pleasure of visiting the Radella Relay Station of Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation on September 22, 2018. It was my good friend Mr. Sudarshi Madanayake took me there. I am publishing the pictures I took during the tour. The station is situated in a beautiful mountanous terrain in cold and amazingly attractive Nuwara Eliya district. Most of the ...
Nanda Wanninayaka nanda.wanninayaka@gmail.com Jokers (and jerks – including Mr. Anura Dissanayaka) apart, there are two mainstream candidates in the run-up to the presidential election on November 16, 2019. Well, whether you like it or not, it is Mr. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa (GR) and Mr. Sajith Premadasa (SP) who are the frontrunners for the contest and the others are just vote spoilers. ...
