Mallika Nivasa Samithiya enters centenary year with plans for the future
Beginning with a stanza led by a Buddhist monk and followed by a lovely song sung by children of the ‘Sneha Child Development Centre’, the 99th annual general meeting (AGM) of the Mallika Nivasa Samithiya was held on July 30 on a simple note, reflecting the core values of this longstanding Buddhist social service organisation. [...]
Soekarno Ousmand re-elected president of Malay Association
The 98th annual general meeting of the Sri Lanka Malay Association was held on Sunday July 26, 2020 at the Padang, Colombo 02. Soekarno Tunku Ousmand was re-elected president for the second consecutive year. SLMA, the premier Malay organisation established in 1922, has continued to focus its efforts on enhancing Sri Lankan Malay’s cultural values, [...]
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind…
Politicians and lovers have a common failing: Politicians fighting for survival at elections and lovers during ecstatic moments make rash promises which they haven’t the foggiest notion about fulfilling when the time comes. Lankan politicians and lovers are more fortunate on this issue than their Western counterparts. In Western democracies, big election pledges are taken [...]
Preventing a global education disaster
LONDON – “The beautiful thing about learning,” the great blues guitarist B.B. King once wrote, “is that no one can take it away from you.” Born and raised in poverty, King understood the value of education as a force for change. If only political leaders responding to the COVID-19 pandemic had an ounce of his [...]
Subterfuge and betrayal of youth aspirations led to wars in Sri Lanka
The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), a Communist and Marxist-Leninist Party, was founded by Rohana Wijeweera around 1964. Rohana Wijeweera’s father had been a political activist of the Communist Party of Sri Lanka (CPSL). During an election campaign in the 1960s he had been severely assaulted by thugs of the ruling UNP and as a consequence [...]