නගර සංවර්ධනය හා මූලධර්මවාදය
Kumudu Kusum Kumara’s article criticising Ivan’s ‘Colombo City Development Debate’ appeared in the last Ravaya. Kumudu is a sociologist with a connection to the 1971 insurrection, Ivan writes, and it is right that his views on the development of Colombo should be criticised by such a man — and he is glad of the chance to return to the discussion.
විදුහල්පති ධර්මදාස හා දොස්තර ජයසිංහ
When Ivan heard that a doctor had been shot dead at Karandeniya he wanted to know why. He asked several people in Colombo with connections there, and from every one of them heard only that he was a kind young doctor who worked with great love for the people of the area — and nothing at all about the reasons behind his killing.
විරුද්ධ පක්ෂ හා ආණ්ඩු පක්ෂ දේශපාලනයේ ශ්රාස්ත්රීය දුගීභාවය
Ivan opens with a telephone conversation with an educated man of some standing inside the UNP who is himself a subject of argument there, and the question he put to him. What follows is an account of the intellectual poverty on both sides, of the deceiving of party members, of family politics, and of the limits of the forward vision on offer.
වත්කම් බැරකම් නීතිය ක්රියාත්මක කිරීම
The policy the elections commissioner followed on the assets and liabilities law at the last provincial council election was excellent. What would have been better still was an order that every candidate file a declaration with the nomination papers — and to get round the defect of not doing so he required all the winners to file by 15 October and the defeated candidates by 30 October.
විකෘති වී තිබෙන දේශපාලන සංස්කෘතිය ප්රකෘති කිරීමේ අවශ්යතාව
Until the Kolonnawa tragedy on polling day, the political society saw the problems to be settled after the war as the visible ones — the disappeared, the displaced, the destroyed houses and infrastructure. What made them see that the great distortions the war worked on social life are a large problem too was what happened between Bharatha Lakshman and Duminda at Kolonnawa.
අපරාධකරණය හා පාදඩකරණය
The clash at Kolonnawa on polling day between the government member Duminda Silva and the former member and presidential adviser Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra, and the tragedy that came of it, is a powerful event that gives a warning signal not only to the president and his party but to every political party in the country and to the society.
රටේ හොඳ නම කෙළසන මැර ප්රහාර
The thug attack on Dr N.J. Nonis, the registrar of the Sri Lanka Medical Council, gives the country a bad signal, and at first sight it looks like a by-product of the argument that had arisen over the private medical college.
කොළඹ නගර සංවර්ධන විවාදය
Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s Colombo development programme is heavily criticised by the opposition, and at first sight what Ivan sees is a good change that can be felt: the city is cleaner than it has ever been, the rubbish heaps along the main roads have stopped, and not only Colombo 7 where the rich live but Borella and Wanathamulla where the poor live are clean, with the traffic much eased.
ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ අර්බුදය
Will the split that has opened inside the JVP hasten the decline it was already travelling towards, or will it renew the party and make it strong again? Six sections follow, on Kumar Gunaratnam, on correct Marxism, on the JVP’s social background, on commitment, on the absence of a forward vision, and on what should be done.
ඉන්දියානු ඇමතිවරුන්ගේ වත්කම් විවාදය හා ශ්රී ලංකාව
After Anna Hazare’s satyagraha the Indian prime minister’s office published, on 3 September, the latest declarations of assets and liabilities of the 77 members of the cabinet, as a step towards rebuilding the public confidence that had collapsed. A research institute working on democracy compared them with what the same ministers had filed with the election commission in 2009.