‘Overnight Vigil’ May 30 leading nowhere
By Janaka Perera From the end of April through this month the world including Sri Lanka observed anniversaries marking the end of several armed conflicts – Vietnam War (April 30), fighting in the...
View ArticleAugust 17 will decide Sri Lanka’s fate
By Janaka Perera Without question the August 17 Parliamentary Election is going to be a most crucial one for Sri Lanka. The decision the majority of the voters take on Monday is bound to have the...
View ArticleEmbracing a Tiger in cassocks
By Janaka Perera Has anyone heard of a country after militarily crushing a vicious terrorist outfit trying to seek ‘peace and understanding’ with the unrepentant supporters of the very same group?...
View ArticleCrisis looming in South China Sea
Janaka Perera Two Asian countries with which Sri Lanka has strong relations are now at logger heads. The possibility of it leading to a proxy war in the South China Sea (SCS) cannot be ruled out unless...
View ArticleAppeasing separatists: The road to nowhere
Janaka Perera The recent suicide of a Tamil teenager, Senthuran Rajeswaran, demanding the release of LTTE detainees is a perfect example of how Sri Lanka has spoilt the military over the Tigers. Both...
View ArticleCoup attempt that nearly ignited a religious war
Janaka Perera The first ever attempt to overthrow a legally elected government in post independence Sri Lanka was made 54 years ago on January 27. The conspirators were a group of military and police...
View ArticleIndian and Sri Lankan Armed Forces
Janaka Perera This relates to the January 27th article titled ‘Coup attempt that nearly ignited a religious war’ in the Lanka Web of January 27. Since a reader in his comment on the piece has...
View ArticleSinhala Tigers in sheep’s clothing
Janaka Perera It is amusing to see ‘Comrade’ Surendra Ajith Rupesinghe pontificating on Constitutional reforms after years of supporting LTTE separatism in Sri Lanka and abroad. To him the Tigers were...
View Article‘Vavuniya Citizens’ antics in Mullivayikal
Janaka Perera A group calling itself Vavuniya Citizens Group is planning to erect a memorial minaret at Mullivayikal for what it calls victims of ‘Tamil killing.’ The term almost sounds like...
View Articleසතුන් සමග සංසර්ගයේ යෙදෙන එරික් සෝල්හයිම් ගේ ‘නෑයෝ’
Janaka Perera දියුණු යයි සම්මත බටහිර ජාතියක් සතුන් සමග සංසර්ගයේ යෙදෙන බව අසා තිබේද? එහෙත් එය ඇත්තකි. ඒ ජාතිය නම් සාමයේ නාමයෙන් අපට දෙමළ කොටින් සමග ‘සහවාසයේ’ යෙදෙන්නට ආරාධනය කල නෝවීජියානුවන්ය. මේ...
View ArticleAsia: Japan forced to sell its soul to the West
Janaka Perera The following piece is meant to throw more light on what Shenali D. Waduge’s wrote in her July 31st article titled ‘Time for Pan Asianism: Rise of Asians for Asia & Asia for Asians’....
View ArticleBUDDHISTS BEWARE
Janaka Perera Beware of Non-Buddhists claiming to protect Buddhism. Beware of Non-Buddhists seeking to identify and define the enemies of Buddhists and Buddhism Beware of Non-Buddhists attempting to...
View ArticleMany are paying today for Japan’s blunder
Janaka Perera Seventy five years ago on December 7, 1941 Imperial Japan committed the biggest blunder in her history. It was an attack Washington welcomed but not openly. The Japanese surprise attack...
View ArticlePlanting churches and ‘saving souls’
Janaka Perera Sri Lanka will be celebrating the 2561st year of Vesak on an international scale starting on May 10. The question however is whether the organizers and the foreign participants in the...
View ArticleThree commitments save UN Vesak Day Mahanuwara (Kandy) Declaration 2017
Janaka Perera The nine point Mahanuwara Declaration on the United Nations Day of Vesak 2017 may have ended up as an empty vacuous and vague document not worth a second look but for three distinctive...
View ArticleRemembering L.H. Mettananda : Colonialism, nationalism and Buddhist revivalism
By Janaka Perera L.H. Mettananda : 1945 – 1953, Principal Ananda College The watershed in Sri Lanka’s post – independence period i.e. 1956, which led to the socio-cultural emancipation of the vast...
View ArticleRoyal College 175th Anniversary: A forgotten incident
By Janaka Perera As Sri Lanka’s Royal College celebrates the 175th anniversary of its founding this year on a grand scale of pomp and pageantry that perhaps no other school in the country can match, it...
View ArticleWar that changed Sri Lanka and the world
Janaka Perera Seventy-eight years ago, Sept 3, 1939, the news of Britain’s declaration of war against Nazi Germany came to Colombo through the wireless from London, shortly before 4.30 p.m. At that...
View ArticleSri Lankan lawyer calls Asia to unite in claiming compensation for colonial...
Janaka Perera At a seminar on Foreign Policy and International Law held at the Organisation of Professional Associations (OPA) auditorium, Colombo yesterday (October 2, 2017) a member of the audience,...
View ArticleL.H. METTANANDA – THE FORGOTTEN BUDDHIST HERO
Janaka Perera Courtesy The Daily News It is strange that the 50th death anniversary of Buddhist revivalist L.H. Mettananda went almost unnoticed, even at Ananda College where he was Principal from 1945...
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