කරන්දෙණියේ ඝාතනයෙන් උගත හැකි පාඩම්
The savage killing of a doctor at Karandeniya, the social setting of the people involved in it, and the violent behaviour of the people of that area after the suspects were arrested, show the country several important faces of the crisis it is in.
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.
සාධාරණ බව පෙනෙන්නටද තිබිය යුතුය
The investigation into the tragedy arising from the clash between the member Duminda Silva and the president’s trade union adviser Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra is a criminal investigation that puts the working of the law in Sri Lanka to the test. In a criminal case the working of the law begins with the police investigation.
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.
දේශපාලන සංස්කෘතිය ශීලාචාර කරගැනීම
If the tragedy that came out of the unseemly clash at Kolonnawa between a government member and a former government member is not taken as the warning signal it is, and the changes that would bring the country’s deeply uncivilised political culture to a civilised place are not made without delay, the price the country will pay may be enormous.
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 සභා මැතිවරණය හා වත්කම් බැරකම් නීතිය
The crafty and comical way the assets and liabilities law works at elections was shown again at the Colombo municipal poll. The law matters at an election because it gives voters the right to know the background of the candidates’ assets and liabilities — and they get that right only if candidates file their declarations with their nomination papers.
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.
සරත් නන්ද සිල්වා හා සමාජ පාදඩකරණය
The Sunday Leader editor Frederica Jansz called the former chief justice a wolf in sheep’s clothing, and his long reply appeared in that paper at the weekend — answering not all her charges but only the few he could interpret to his own advantage. This is Ivan’s account of the rest.