දූෂණයට එරෙහිව හා තොරතුරු අයිතිය වෙනුවෙන් කරන සටනේ අවුල
India’s anti-corruption movement, and the satyagraha Anna Hazare carried out to bring the struggle to a logical end, finished by winning the object they had set — an independent anti-corruption institution under a public ombudsman. It has not been discussed enough in Sri Lanka, Ivan writes, and it can be counted the largest popular revolution in India since Gandhi’s.
සරත් සිල්වා හා තේරීම් කාරක සභාව
The papers report that the government has decided to appoint a parliamentary select committee to look into the wrongs done in the judiciary during Sarath N. Silva’s time as chief justice. He says it is being done to suppress the fight he is now carrying on against the government’s corruption, and that since he is a retired citizen the government has no power to appoint a committee to inquire into him.
ඉන්දියාවේ හසාරේගේ දූෂණ විරෝධී විප්ලවය හා ශ්රී ලංකාව මුහුණ දී තිබෙන අවුල
Discussing the non-violent struggle Anna Hazare is carrying on in India to win a new anti-corruption bill matters to us here too: through it we can understand not only India’s future but the real nature of the tangle Sri Lanka faces in the same field.
රෝගීන් ගසා කෑම
The health minister has ordered that laboratory tests for patients at government hospitals with laboratory facilities may not be sent out to private hospitals. If the decision was taken with all the other problems it may create in mind, it can be called a very important step for the health service.
යූඑන්පී අර්බුදය
A great deal can be learned from the UNP’s leadership crisis, not only about that party but about the political culture of Sri Lanka. Removing a party leader is extremely difficult: there is no simple, clear method in the party constitution for the membership to use when they want one removed, and nothing about how a group carrying on an internal struggle should proceed — and that is true of every party in the country.
ග්රීස් යකුන් පිළිබඳ ඇත්ත කුමක්ද?
The grease devil story pushed people in some areas into acting on impulse. It was said at first to be the work of mental patients — which cannot be, since the work of mental patients does not happen in various parts of the country in the same period. Rumour may have played its part, and there is evidently something in the stories, because in several areas people caught men who were then arrested.
දෙමළ ජනයාගේ ප්රශ්න දෙස සාධාරණව බැලීමේ වැදගත්කම
Reducing the number of members for the Jaffna electoral district may be constitutional, but doing it at a moment when the settlement of the Tamil people’s problems is unfinished cannot create a good feeling among them. What matters more to the country now is creating conditions in which people can work from common agreement.
අනුන් ගැන මිස තමන් ගැන විවේචනයක් නැති ජනමාධ්ය හා ජනමාධ්ය බෝම්බ
Uvindu answered Ivan’s article without answering the basic question it raised about reporting, and Ivan writes again because the subject matters to journalists and to readers interested in understanding Sri Lankan political reality. Six sections follow, ending on the power the press holds and on what he calls media atom bombs.
වගා සංග්රාමය
Whatever it is officially called, the government has begun the second stage of its cultivation campaign. In the first stage a small packet of fertiliser with a few kinds of seed was given out among people interested in home gardening, and it was heard from various places that the seed was not good and that only a small part of it germinated; in the second, fruit and vegetable plants were given.
අවුල් බේරාගැනීමේ වැදගත්කම
Sri Lanka paid a large price for President Jayewardene’s failure to understand the Tamil people’s question, Tamil Nadu’s sensitivity to it and the geopolitical reality of the region — and India paid a large price of her own for not judging the LTTE movement fairly.