My deepest sympathies and condolences to those who lost loved ones or were injured in the Terror bombings while they prayed at Easter Service or as they had breakfast in Sri Lanka. The news, pictures and videos, are heart rending and sorrowful, again. We have growing evidence about the people who committed the atrocity and some of their compulsions. ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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. ...
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, ...
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!!! ...
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, ...
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 ...
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. ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Every dog is a Poo-dle! So are politicians? Every dog is a Poo-dle, kind of, in a manner of speaking. Parisians, with their fondness for the chien and so very indulgent towards them to the extent that the doings of the chien are kind of considered somewhat of an idiosyncrasy that makes Paris what Paris is. So say those who ...