[ This unpublished short post was written in May 2014 and reflects the unsettled social conditions of the day which reached it’s peak two months later in the town of Aluthgama. However the establishment of the new political environment in early January this year has been extremely conducive to the gradual reinstatement of the violated basic need of SL Muslims ...
“Mr. Speaker We have removed the word minorities from our vocabulary three years ago. No longer are the Tamils, Muslims, Burghers, Malays and any others minorities. There are only two peoples in this country. One is the people that love this country. The other comprises the small groups that have no love for the land of their birth. Those who ...
At a Presidential Election, the Candidate who obtains at least 50% +1 of the Total Number of Valid Votes wins the race. By the time the dust settled on the process that began on the 8th of January 2015, the post of Executive President of Sri Lanka had eluded Mahinda Rajapakse by a mere 293, 637 votes – a little ...
Rosa Luxemburg – Marxist Theorist, Philosopher, Economist & Revolutionary Socialist – famously observed that ‘Those who do not move, do not notice their chains’. I have decided to ‘move’ mentally, to stretch my mental powers in new directions, to challenge patterns of thinking and behavior based on blind obedience to established and widely-accepted ‘norms’ and ‘beliefs’ and to offer new ...