යුද්ධය ගැන ආපසු හැරී බැලීමක්
Ivan had planned to write about the war as the subject connected to his review of 2005 to 2010 — the de facto state the LTTE ran, the war that ended its existence, and the great changes it has made in the social, economic and political picture. The leadership contest between Ranil and Karu tempted him to write about that instead, and he judged the war the more important thing for understanding the political picture.
2005-2010 දක්වා ආපසු හැරී බැලීමක්
The years 2005 to 2010 were a period crowded with events: a great war between the government and the LTTE, and alongside it a great conflict between the government and the opposition movements. Ivan had wanted for some time to write a review of the conflict between those two sides in those five years, and of his own part in it.
සේකරගේ ප්රහේළිකාව ගැන වැඩිදුරටත්
The article on the Sekera puzzle and the interpretation of the communal crisis brought a number of telephone responses, and this is Ivan’s answer to them — including a correction he is careful to make gently about the answer Professor Sarath Wijesuriya had given him.
දඩිබිඩි එළවළු විප්ලවය
It is not a lie that vegetables carried in sacks are crushed and bruised and that the waste is large; investigations into it began as far back as the 1970s. The waste needs preventing, and the way it is being tackled is not good: first identify the problem properly, then find the right remedy, then explain its value to every party concerned, and then try it in selected places rather than nationally at one stroke.
අධිකරණයේ ස්වාධීනත්වය ගැන වැඩිදුරටත්
Rajpal’s column reports that the resolution a group of lawyers put forward against the appointment of a parliamentary select committee to inquire into the wrongs of Sarath N. Silva’s time as chief justice has been approved by the bar association’s executive committee, and names the lawyers who drove it.
මහගමසේකර ප්රහේලිකාව හා අර්බුදයට තිබෙන අර්ථකථනයේ දුගීභාවය
Mahagama Sekera was an artist the country loved and respected, of the first rank in several branches of art at once, and the authenticity in his work was the artistic expression of the authenticity in his life. Ivan had a puzzle about him he could not settle for years: why the statue of him at the junction where you enter his village had been attacked, several times, by somebody.
අනුරුද්ධ රත්වත්ත
Anuruddha has died, and as a man who was close to him for a time Ivan thinks it important to set down a note about him. What follows is a personal account, including the plain observation that neither Anuruddha nor Chandrika appears to have had full confidence in the other when she was brought into the SLFP.
අන්තර්ජාල අරාජිකවාදය යුක්තිසහගත කිරීම
Two earlier articles argued that the ethics and the laws affecting the other media should affect websites too: that reporting in any medium must rest on true facts, that those wronged by reporting built on false ones should have legal relief, and that the internet should not have a freedom to work outside that tradition.
අධිකරණ ස්වාධීනත්වය ගැන හෙළන කිඹුල් කඳුළු
More than 150 lawyers have signed a resolution calling for a general meeting of the bar association against the appointment of a select committee to inquire into the wrongs done by the retired chief justice while he held office — and the first signature on it, according to the newspapers, is that of a candidate for the presidency of the association at the coming election.
උගත් පාඩම් කොමිසම හා උගතයුතු පාඩම්
The Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission’s report has been handed to the president, and what it finds and recommends is not yet clear. It is a commission that drew international attention: the British foreign secretary said Sri Lanka should show its honesty by making the report public, and the government says it will be put before parliament in December.