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A Silenced Media
Last week a story on the front page of a daily English newspaper caught my eye. Not for its content but for the sheer absurdity of such a story having made headlines on the front page of a newspaper....
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A Top Sri Lankan Major General, The US And Gotabhaya Rajapaksa
Colombo Telegraph last week unearthed another WikiLeaks cable. According to the cable Major General Prasad Samarasinghe the former Military Spokesman and Director, Directorate of Media in the Army, has...
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Sri Lanka’s Missing
Where are they? What happened to dozens of LTTE members who surrendered to the army together with Rev. Francis Joseph, a Catholic priest, south of the Vadduvaakal bridge on May 18 2009? “Aananthi” (not...
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Then They Came For… The Writers
Last week an astrologer Madura Peiris had his moment in time. Featured on a private news television station Peiris said that intellectuals, especially, writers who use their pen as a weapon, are...
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The Scales Of Justice Are Tipped Upside Down
Those who believe that the country’s justice system treats everyone equally is living in a fool’s paradise. This is true of all justice systems in the world. While some countries try to make it more...
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Oh Those Gratiaens!
Everybody looked as if they were something out of Jurassic Park. It was probably the eerie blue lighting. As I perched myself on a chair I whispered softly to my companion on my right that she looked...
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UL Chairman With Undeclared Millions Under His Pillow
Nishantha Wickramasinghe – Chairman of SriLankan Airlines It is typical. Not the 8 million rupee theft. But the cover-up which has followed. Both police and SriLankan Airlines of which Nishantha...
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Alice In Wonderland
There is NO rape. There are NO abductions. There is NO corruption. There is NO fear psychosis. The media remain – independent – unbowed and unafraid. Editors are not coerced into submission over...
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Is The Board Of Directors Of SriLankan Airlines As Guilty As The Chairman
It has been a few weeks now since we highlighted the blatant disregard and violation of procedures at Sri Lankan Airlines by the Chairman of Sri Lankan Airlines, Nishantha Wickremasinghe. He was...
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Frogs In A Pot Of Water
There is a facile truism about nations getting the politicians they deserve. We, in Sri Lanka certainly have the kind we deserve. Small-minded, cliquish, corrupt, self-serving, self-indulgent and...
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