‘Distorting history could lead to dissension’
By Janaka Perera Distorting Sri Lanka’s history could lead to dissension, warned speakers at a meeting held recently at the All Ceylon Buddhist Congress Hall, Colombo. The occasion was the launch of a...
View ArticleTNA antics and killing Rajiv Gandhi a second time
By Janaka Perera Soon after Tamil Nadu’s decision to free Rajiv Gandhi’s assassins, a Sri Lankan (Sinhala) newspaper had a cartoon showing the ghost of former Sri Lankan President J.R. Jayewardene...
View ArticleDeath anniversary of Dr. C.A. Hewawitharana-Journalist’s intuition foretold a...
By Janaka Perera April 3, 2014 marks the 85th death anniversary of Dr. Charles Alwis Hewawitharana who was the first Sinhala Buddhist to become a Doctor of Medicine (MD ” Medicinae Doctor) in the...
View Article‘Sri Lanka needs to refocus her foreign policy’
Janaka Perera “The biggest threat to the Asian region is how the US is wooing the Indian government and its corporate sector, and promoting the idea ” in a very subtle way – that Indian and Chinese...
View ArticleGlobal milk industry’s brutal methods exposed
Janaka Perera The world celebrated Milk Day on June 1 amidst newspaper articles extolling virtues of milk consumption. Sri Lankans are being urged to consume liquid milk instead of powdered milk to...
View ArticleLanka to honour Vietnam Buddhist martyr
Janaka Perera Sri Lanka’s Ambassador in Vietnam Dr. Ivan Amarasinghe will be a special guest invited by the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha Council at the ceremony on Saturday July 12 – National Martyrs Day –...
View ArticleIndo-Lanka ties and TN buffoonery
Janaka Perera Learning from the experience of the furor over the allegedly controversial Jayalalitha-Modi article in the Sri Lanka Defence Ministry website Sri Lankans need to have broader perspective...
View ArticleWar that changed Sri Lanka and the world
Janaka Perera Seventy-five years ago, on September 4, 1939, the huge guns of the First Heavy Regiment of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery boomed from the Rock house Battery , Modera. It was practice...
View ArticlePhoto Poetry born out of war
Janaka Perera Roopa Kavya (Photo Poetry) a collection of pictorial poems in Sinhala and English published in Lanka Viththi, the first Sinhala newspaper published in the United Kingdom, was launched at...
View ArticleAssassination of a Prime Minister
Janaka Perera Friday, September 26th marks the 55th year since post-independence Sri Lanka experienced its first political assassination – the killing of Prime Minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike on...
View ArticleSaluting war veterans – then and now -From poppy to suriyamal and back to poppy
By Janaka Perera Poppy Day November 11 this year will mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. I recall over 50 years ago during our school days our teachers told us to observe...
View ArticleReal factors behind SL’s independence
Janaka Perera Before 1939 the British were in no great hurry to grant self-rule to their colonies, despite all the heroic freedom struggles, notably in India, and the campaigns for constitutional...
View ArticleChristian politicos meddling in Buddhist affairs
By Janaka Perera Deputy Minister Ranjan Ramanayake recently raiding a Buddhist Meditation Centre at Kadawatha raises two serious issues – one legal and the other ethical. Can a politician enter the...
View ArticleAbrogate 13th Amendment – National Joint Committee
By Janaka Perera The National Joint Committee on Tuesday, February 24 called for an immediate abrogation of the 13th Amendment which India imposed on Sri Lanka 28 years ago. Participating in the media...
View ArticleEchoes of April 5
By Janaka Perera April is the month when flowers bloom in Nuwara Eliya. It has also been a month when guns boomed and bombs exploded and of ‘revolution.’ All of them occurred on a 5th of April...
View ArticleExpat Lankans donate cardiac catheter lab to A’pura Teaching hospital
By Janaka Perera We are deeply grateful to expatriate Sri Lankans in Australia for facilitating the grant of a fully equipped Cardiac Catheter Laboratory to the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital” Health...
View ArticleConcern over fate of Jaffna Sinhala MV
Janaka Perera Is the Government planning to release the Sinhala Maha Vidyalaya in Jaffna to the private individuals or companies, instead of giving bit back to the Sinhala children and their teachers...
View ArticleFirst suicide attack 73 years ago today (April 9) – Why Japan did not invade...
By Janaka Perera April 9th this year marks the 73rd Anniversary of the World War II Japanese air raid on Trincomalee, four days after they bombed Colombo and suburbs. Although many articles have been...
View ArticleVietnam’s victory 40 years ago
By Janaka Perera April 30th marks the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Vietnam, a country with which Sri Lanka has developed strong ties during the past five decades. The press in this country...
View ArticleBuddhism in Russia and the Lankan connection
Janaka Perera _______________________________________________ People who were educated in British schools and who were taught European history and geography, neglecting native history and geography...
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