Mr. President please help us stop terror on the roadways. Buses and trucks are terrorizing us every day. Every day buses and trucks including dump trucks carrying sand ply the road terrorizing children on their way to and from school, women and men pedestrians about their work, cyclists, motorcyclists, cars, and three wheelers on the road. We the people have ...
Tissa we love you please come back to us! Yes? Or is it, I am Tissa remember me? Please take me back! The former General Secretary of the United National Party (UNP), yes, the one who crossed over to the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, says now that he regrets his decision to leave the UNP. These things happen. Does it ...
The Fault is in the stars! What? I mean if the planetary arrangement at present is faulty, not fawltry, what can be done short of removing oneself from that arrangement? Strangely, some people blame the stars for being, well, being where they are when they should be some place else. From what we know, and this knowing business started as ...
The Federation of Teachers Associations (FUTA) of the public universities in Sri Lanka has raised an important question that is about ethics in public service. FUTA is asking that the Chairperson of the University Grants Commission resign from her post due to unethical conduct. The primary objective of the UGC is to plan and coordinate university education to confirm to national ...
Animal Palm The Presidential Election in Sri Lanka, whew! Were the voters mostly sheep, goats, lions with some tigers prowling about? Especially those who voted for MS? Well let us see. MR received about 300 thousand votes less than he did in 2010 while the voter base increased by almost a million to over 15 million. There would have been ...
The Little Way is also a good way One Hundred days, what can be done in one hundred days? A lot. Just think about it. All of us alive now are the result of actions that did not take that long. And here we are, powerful stuff, if we allow ourselves to think in that way. The real achievement of ...
The opening rounds go to the challenger! The challenger is ahead on the cards. He has struck some strong blows; in his corner he delivered a mighty blow. But there is a long way to go. The challenger is one fifth of the way to reaching the winning post and is leading the incumbent with seeming comfort. Change, needed or ...
The opening rounds go to the challenger! The challenger is ahead on the cards. He has struck some strong blows; in his corner he delivered a mighty blow. But there is a long way to go. The challenger is one fifth of the way to reaching the winning post and is leading the incumbent with seeming comfort. Change, needed or ...
And the Winner is…. All Under Heaven Once upon a time… With 47.4% of the vote (plus or minus 2 percent) the incumbent, Mahinda Rajapaksa relinquished the presidency to the challenger Maithripala Sirisena. Really? Well not quite. This is based on assumptions that may not be borne out. Using a simple model of the electorate and simplifying assumptions I arrive ...
And the Winner is…. All Under Heaven Once upon a time… With 47.4% of the vote (plus or minus 2 percent) the incumbent, Mahinda Rajapaksa relinquished the presidency to the challenger Maithripala Sirisena. Really? Well not quite. This is based on assumptions that may not be borne out. Using a simple model of the electorate and simplifying assumptions I arrive ...
Big visions are good? In Sri Lanka the presidential Manifestos are out, the visions for the future written and the people informed. And perhaps, some are pleased, some amused and a few are dismayed by these visions and manifestos. A few may continue with another older manifesto hidden in their person, impaled on the contradiction of human purpose in historical ...
Big visions are good? In Sri Lanka the presidential Manifestos are out, the visions for the future written and the people informed. And perhaps, some are pleased, some amused and a few are dismayed by these visions and manifestos. A few may continue with another older manifesto hidden in their person, impaled on the contradiction of human purpose in historical ...
Corruption goes but where? Part II Corruption is a symptom not the disease? A citizenry knows that the growth of material well-being comes at a price, there is a cost to it . Part of the price is visible and a part not so. What we hold dear as principles, our values and morals are in contest with our practices. ...
Corruption goes but where? Part II Corruption is a symptom not the disease? A citizenry knows that the growth of material well-being comes at a price, there is a cost to it . Part of the price is visible and a part not so. What we hold dear as principles, our values and morals are in contest with our practices. ...
Corruption must go, but where? Part 1 We need to reduce corruption in Sri Lanka. We need to identify it, examine why it occurs in different spheres of public life and figure out what types of solutions might reduce corrupt practices. There are institutional practices that contribute to corruption and of course there are the perennial human weaknesses, which make ...
Corruption must go, but where? Part 1 We need to reduce corruption in Sri Lanka. We need to identify it, examine why it occurs in different spheres of public life and figure out what types of solutions might reduce corrupt practices. There are institutional practices that contribute to corruption and of course there are the perennial human weaknesses, which make ...
I add my humble voice to that of the grieving families of Peshawar, Pakistan. May you be comforted, may your faith sustain you, may compassion guide you. For all of us who will take time to reflect on this, the event is sad beyond words. For parents who send their children to school for learning this event may grant them some ...
I add my humble voice to that of the grieving families of Peshawar, Pakistan. May you be comforted, may your faith sustain you, may compassion guide you. For all of us who will take time to reflect on this, the event is sad beyond words. For parents who send their children to school for learning this event may grant them some ...
Structures of Comfort and Structures of Deceit Systems, institutions and organizations function for many purposes. They form structures that enable them to function but also to safeguard and maintain a sense of order, of continuity, and help to form and realize expectations of well-being. A web of reciprocities binding us to duty and obligation are thus created. We know this. ...
Structures of Comfort and Structures of Deceit Systems, institutions and organizations function for many purposes. They form structures that enable them to function but also to safeguard and maintain a sense of order, of continuity, and help to form and realize expectations of well-being. A web of reciprocities binding us to duty and obligation are thus created. We know this. ...