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.
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.
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.
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.
යක්ෂයා පලවා හැරීම
For a decade there have been attempts inside the UNP to remove Ranil Wickremesinghe and change the leadership, and he has defeated every one of them and kept his place. The leader of the recent revolt was Sajith Premadasa, and though the popular belief was that he would win, Ranil won again — and Sajith does not appear to have finished his fight.
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.
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.
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.
විශ්වවිද්‍යාල හා පාසල් ක්‍රමය මුහුණ දී තිබෙන ගැටලු
University teachers are agitating for a 200 per cent pay rise, and their withdrawal from the administrative work they do voluntarily is pushing university administration into a crisis — and it has come up while the higher education minister is carrying out a programme to reorganise the university system.