Photo courtesy of Hindustantimes.com The results of Sri Lanka’s parliamentary election held on Wednesday show a seismic shift in the country’s electoral map as well as the balance of political power in the new legislature. The near two-thirds parliamentary majority, easily achieved by the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP – Sri Lanka People’s Front) by reducing all opposition parties into ...
Gaming is not only about wasting time or just planning and putting strategies to win battles against friends or computers anymore. Gaming nowadays is about...
Sri Lanka Cricket needs to be commended for the excellent work they have done to resume a franchise-based tournament. if all goes well, we should have this city-based competition by the end of the month or at the latest, October. The main reason why Sri Lanka has lagged behind other nations when it comes to T20I cricket is because we ...
Former Sri Lanka Test wicketkeeper Lanka de Silva has been appointed as the interim Head Coach of the Sri Lanka women’s team, following the exit of Harsha de Silva. The SLC has appointed de Silva till the end of this year, and a permanent placement for the role will be decided by the SLC afterwards. With the ICC Women’s World ...
Blazing sun rays, unbearably too hot and scorching. Drops of water, scarcely found Yet acidic, toxic, and lethal. The frosty nights would freeze you to the bone. Heavy winds bellow brutally. The parched land of the soulless, Desolate and arid. Vultures are hovering, Spying with greedy, desperate eyes Looking for a soul in the bleak emptiness. If not, even ...
Comet NEOWISE became a pretty popular name among stargazers as well as non-stargazers in 2020. One of the main reasons why it was so popular was that it was one of the brightest comets in about 13 years (since the comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) - which was a daylight comet as well). Unlike for example the 9 comets that turned ...
In many areas of physical science, the need to establish a relationship between an independent variable, and a dependent variable, based on experimental data arises. This is defined as “Regression” Analysis, a term first mentioned in 1885 by Sir Francis Galton. For this, the traditional method would be to plot data points on a graph sheet and draw an estimated ...
Today’s pictures are from a journey to Uttarakhand, one of the new states carved out a few years back from bigger ones. This was from Uttar Pradesh and comprised its hilly regions, but going down to the holy cities of Rishikesh and Haridwar where the Ganges tumbles down to the plains. I began in Meerut which is in Uttar Pradesh, ...
August 7, 2020 admin English Politics WomenAjith Perakum JayasingheSix women were elected for parliament in the 2020 election. Out of those, three were from Ratnapura District.Pavithra Wanniarachchi (Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna)Thalatha Athukorala (Samagi Jana Balawegaya)Muditha Soysa (Wife of Ranjith Soysa) (Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna)Rajika Wickremasinghe (Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna) was ...
Photo courtesy of srilankamirror.com The general election to parliament is concluded and the official results are out. The anticipated landslide victory to the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) has materialised with the SLPP winning a grand total of 145 seats through garnering a total of approximately 6.8 million votes or 59% of the valid votes cast. Through its stated ...
The music played in the background as she stepped out of the back door of the pub to get some fresh air. There he was standing with a ciggy in his left hand. He took a drag and as he exhaled he looked up into the night sky. She looked up at the sky and... Continue Reading →
Former St. Anthony’s College Skipper and Sri Lanka Sevens young gun, Dinuk Amarasinghe, has crossed over from CR & FC back to the park where he began his career, Havelock Sports Club. Dinuk Amarasinghe breaks through a tackle Amarasinghe was in hot form playing at Centre for Havies for two years, before he moved over to CR last season where ...
My friend Sven Gerst sent me some interesting thoughts on totalitarianism that I thought were worth sharing. He says that when he teaches populism he also includes some aspects of totalitarianism because he thinks there is much to learn from totalitarianism.The politics of Sri Lanka are convoluted, one dynamic being a conflict between the older feudalism of society and ...
Where has the time gone, my friends? I last wrote on the 28th of June and now we are in August. I'll try to make this regular, but no promises. Life is just too crazy. But hey, if there is any consolation, I've been writing more? And drinking even more.
Today’s theme, following on the Asmolean Museum in Oxford two weeks back, is of the Delhi National Museum which I explored thoroughly in 2011. I was on a parliamentary delegation, and this was on the agenda, though none of my fellow delegates was interested. But this was just as well, for I could linger as I wished.
