විදේශ ආයෝජකයන්ට ඉඩම් විකිණීම හා සංචාරක කර්මාන්තය
The Sunday Times has reported that the government intends to sell the 500-acre island being built in the sea off Galle Face to a Chinese investor for 700 million dollars, and that it means to remove the 100 per cent tax now charged when land is sold to foreign investors and to replace the 99-year lease with outright sale.
විශ්වවිද්යාල අධ්යාපනය
On one side there is a great agitation for a pay rise fit for the self-respect of university teachers. On the other the programme of sending newly admitted students to army camps for leadership training has caused heated argument; the first group has finished and the training of the second began this week.
13 වන සංශෝධනය හා ඉන්දියාව
A great tangle is being made again over the 13th amendment. After the war ended the president assured India and the world that the amendment plus one thing more would be implemented — and that assurance, given publicly and loudly enough for the whole country to hear, was what India used to control the pressure raised against the war within India itself.
චැනල් හතර
The documentary Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields, shown on Channel 4 on the 14th, has shaken not only foreigners who watched it but the Sri Lankan diaspora of both communities. Letting this question fester is very bad: it does enormous damage to Sri Lanka’s standing and puts Sri Lankans living in Western countries in a difficult position.
නලින් ද සිල්වාගේ ආසනික් විප්ලවය.
According to reports in the press and on television, what has caused the kidney disease among the people of Rajarata is arsenic in the water, put there by agricultural chemicals — and the arsenic problem has grown so large that there is arsenic in the rice we eat. The discovery was made by a group of scientists at the University of Kelaniya, in an investigation into the causes of the Rajarata kidney disease.
පෙන්ෂන් වැඩසටහන ගැන නැවත සිතා බැලිය යුතුය
The war is over and some social and political quarrels remain unsettled, and there is no sign of an approach wise enough to settle them. The proposed pension scheme for private sector employees is one that creates needless problems: the fund is to be built from what belongs individually to each worker, and a strong feeling has arisen that it will be a loss rather than a gain.
නිදහසේ වාන් දොර ඇරීම
A fundamental change in the political system is essential to any good forward movement for the society and the country — and without overcoming the challenge Prabhakaran’s movement posed to the state, there was no possibility of making one. That challenge was itself something this corrupt political system enlarged: there was a problem before it, and this system turned it into a tangle that could not easily be settled.
බුද්ධිමය අවංකභාවය හා බුද්ධිමතකුගේ සදාචාර අර්බුදය (ආචාර්ය සුනිල් විජේසිරිවර්ධනට පිළිතුරක්)
Ivan questioned one idea from Dr Sunil Wijesiriwardena’s interview, not to put him in difficulty but because he believed it would put a wrong view into a reader’s head. The reply came, and this is Ivan’s answer to the reply — which begins by noting that the reply insists repeatedly that it is not a reply.
අනතරු ඇඟවීමේ නලාව නාදවීම
The threat to the fish market from the extortionists was overcome by a policy of using force against them to the maximum, and for that problem the approach was right — the fish traders approved it and so did the public. The article then asks what happens when the same reflex is applied to everything else.
ඉන්දියාව හා 13 වැනි සංශෝධනය
The question of what political settlement should be given to the Tamil people of the north has again reached a state of feeling rather than of thought, and the joint statement issued by the Indian and Sri Lankan external affairs ministers has drawn heavy criticism in some quarters — with some parties using it to raise anti-Indian feeling again.