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.
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.
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.
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.
මර්වින් සිල්වාගේ ගව මස් තහනම
The minister of public relations and public affairs told the Lankadeepa that the sale of beef in the butchers’ shops of the Gampaha district would be banned from next week — that killing and eating an animal which does such great service to agriculture is a great sin, and that the ban is meant to set the country an example from Gampaha in protecting the cattle resource.
මාලබේ පෞද්ගලික වෛද්යවිද්යාල ප්රශ්නය
A new crisis in the health and medical field is coming onto the stage around the private medical college at Malabe. Opposing a private university outright is one extremism, Ivan writes; allowing, in the name of permitting private universities, a shop system that sells degrees of no proper standard is another.
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.
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.
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.