By Nalin de SilvaThe Channel 4 (of the BBC) crew that has come to Sri Lanka with Visas to cover the CHOGM is not doing what they have being given accreditation to do. It is clear by their behavior that they are interested in cooking up another video footage(s) against the Sri Lankan government and the armed forces and of ...
The earth’s magnetic field is said to be due for reversal sometime soon. This is when the current North Pole would become the South Pole and vice versa. We may be witnessing a different kind of Pole reversal taking place in an altogether different sphere; i.e. in the socio-cultural sphere. There are two extreme cases of socio-cultural organizations in ...
Passing down culture to children serves an obvious egoistic purpose: to make them look, feel and behave like you. This is why most Sri Lankan expatriate parents take pains to teach their children Sinhala, and build temples in their new homeland to have Avurudu Uthsawa and sing Bakthi gee; habits that don’t help their children much in a foreign ...
Dr. Carlo Fonseka, writing to the Sunday Island on the 30thof August, hypothesizes that “religion can be rationally understood as the expression of tribalism which evolved because it has survival value for the tribe.” To prove his hypothesis he points out the recently concluded test match between Sri Lanka and Pakistan where Sri Lanka had to score rapidly to ...
