By Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA “Many Sinhalese … forget that the Tamils of the North and East occupied our Island even before the birth of Buddha … Long before the Sinhalese language was born out of Pali, Tamil and indigenous dialects, the Tamil Dravidians have been occupying this land for centuries…” Chief Minister CV...
By H. L. D. Mahindapala Part II – continued from…….. It is by looking back that one can detect how coming events had cast their shadows across the political landscape in Sri Lanka on the first Independence Day. In the previous article I showed how the two major events that...
By Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar was a career diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service. His assignments included the Soviet Union, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Germany, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Kuwait and Turkey. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran’s death circa May 19, 2009, in...
By Rear Admiral (Dr.) Sarath Weerasekera VSV, RWP, USP An article appeared in The Island” on 10/7/2017 titled ‘Is there a Sangha State” behind the state?’, written by Laksiri Fernando ( LF). LF says that the Maha Sangha of the three Nikayas (Sangha) has given notice” to the government...
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