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The abuse of history has been one of the major contributory factors that led to the exacerbation of the North-South relations. If our political/social scientists had balanced the mono-ethnic extremism of the North with...
A recent photo published in a news paper of a UNP meeting showed Ranil Wickremesinghe presiding, flanked by Sajith Premadasa (on his right) and Ravi Karunanayake (on his left). Sajith, of course, had taken...
Leaving aside the legalities, politicalities, Constitutionalities and the complexities of the current imbroglio in which the nation is grounded (temporarily), the underlying issues in the Constitutional crisis can be reduced to one single question:...
Of all the migrants that stepped into Sri Lanka to make it their home only the Sinhala-Buddhists created, consolidated and sustained, the mainstream culture that shaped and dominated its history. No other minority has...
In keeping with their religious beliefs, the Buddhists were preparing to celebrate the full moon day of May 1918 in all its traditional splendour. In the Buddhist calendar, it is the day set aside...
The flow of migrants to Sri Lanka never ceased throughout its history. Each migratory wave came with its own characteristics. Each found its own niche in the over-arching Sinhala-Buddhist society. Historical records do not...
Regurgitating the anti-Sinhala-Buddhist propaganda, first injected into the political mainstream by G. G. Ponnambalam, in 1939 at Navalapitiya, has been the forte of the one-eyed theoretician, H. L. Seneviratne. (HLS). He has made a...