𝑾𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒂𝒊𝒍 ( දුක් ගන්නා රාළ )

This was how they have behaved in the past,  those who are now claiming to be here to protect the “Will of the People”. The 2005 Presidential Election was won by bribing the LTTE Terrorist in US Dollars (something they loathe so much only in open) and preventing the peace-loving voters in the East and North from casting their votes. The 2010 Presidential Election was done by a Compute Jilmart and holding the Election Commissioner hostage in the Water’s Edge. Tried the same thing in the 2015 Presidential Election again but had to leave the Temple Trees because of external pressure. In 2018, they staged a political coup and came to power to be kicked out in a few weeks’ time by the Supreme Court. When they realized that they could not muster enough votes, they tried to buy parliamentarians from other parties by offering bribes up to US Dollars 5 million. And now they are claiming to be here to uphold the Will of the People. Will any sensible person believe that someone who had been v...

𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑜 𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑝 𝑖𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑊𝑒𝑙𝑔𝑎𝑚𝑎 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑎ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑎 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑆𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑎 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑆𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑎 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑦𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡. 𝐴𝑙𝑠𝑜, ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑀𝑎ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑎’𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑎 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑚o𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑜𝑦𝑎? What is the underlying message in those two statements? 𝐷𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑔𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡? 𝐼𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑠𝑛’𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡...

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My take on the Coup d'état yesterday, • RW has nothing to prove because in the last No Confidence motion that he proved that he has the adequate numbers, • Now the onus of proving that they have the required number is with MR, • If he can prove it on the parliament floor that he has the number, then RW has to accept and handover the charge gracefully, • If MR is unable to prove that he has the number then the government should start proceeding to impeach the President first and then bring treason charges against both MS and MR, The biggest mistake RW did was, not that he brought in a crook friend to rob the CB but simply ignoring the elders’ wisdom. විසගොර සර්පයා දැක නාරු මෝඩයා. If he had done this on the 09th of January, three years ago, things would have changed better for him at least.

𝙀𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙋𝙪𝙧𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮. 𝐶𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛 𝐿𝑒𝑎𝑓 𝑂𝑖𝑙 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑒 (%) 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝐸𝑢𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑙 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑖𝑙. 𝐼𝑓 75% 𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦. 𝐶𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛 𝐵𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑂𝑖𝑙 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑒 (%) 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝘾𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙙𝙚𝙝𝙮𝙙𝙚 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑖𝑙. 𝐼𝑓 65% 𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦. King's Trove Exporters

ඔබට මතක නැතිවුනාට ඉන්දියන් හමුදාව එලවන්න කියලා කොටින්ට ආයුද දීපු හැටි, චන්දේ දිනන්න කියලා කොටින්ට ඩොලර් දීපු හැටි, කොටින්ගේ කොඩිය වතිකානු මාලිගාවට අරන් ගිය හැටි, දළදා මාළිගාවට බෝම්බ ගහපු එකාට පක්ෂේ උප නායක කම දීපු හැටි, විල්පත්තු වන විනාශයට රාජ්‍ය අනුග්‍රහය දීපු හැටි, දැන් කොටින්ට වන්දි ගෙවන්න උත්සහ කරන හැටි.

Cinnamon Ceylon Cinnamon (Cinnamomum Zylanicum) a plant indigenous to Sri Lanka. Cinnamon was one of the first traded spices of the ancient world and was a popular spice in the ancient Arab world. The Arab traders have paved the way for Cinnamon to travel a long distance through the spice route to the European market. Cinnamon has motivated many historical voyages leading to the discovery of New World by Christopher Columbus and Vasco De Gamma. Introduction Taxonomy Family                            –          Lauraceae Botanical name           –          Cinnamomum zeylanicum Common Name           –      ...

Pepper ( popularly known as the " King of spices " ). Pepper is the fruit of the pepper plant from the Piperaceae family and is used as both, a spice and medicine. The chemical piperine, present in black pepper, causes the spiciness. Introduction Taxonomy Family                            –          Piperaceae Botanical name           –          Piper nigrum Common Name           –          Pepper Sri Lankan black pepper has higher piperine content than product from other parts of the World. Health Benefits of Black Pepper •    Anti-inflammatory •    Antioxidant • ...

Has anyone recently tried the Sri Lanka Telecom ( SLT ) Hotline 1212 ? First, you will be forced to listen to one of their latest and insipid Ad before an agent come online. The Ad says in ( the nutshell ) that “ We are different than others and that is why they provide different types of internet packages ”. I agree with the first part of their statement that they are different. Because, unlike any other service-oriented industry, they do not care for their customers’ complaints. For the last four days, I had been battling to get my internet connection to a decent level without much success. The agents have a different story to tell you each time for the reason of disruption. Now I am confused which one to believe. The Agents are happy to give their maintenance section number which had been ringing for the last four days but no one was there to pick up and give us the true picture. How long more I have to wait I have no idea and I think it is the time to think of an alternative arran...

Hello there! Looking for people to participate in a HUGE book exchange. You can be anywhere in the world. All you have to do is to buy one of your favourite books ( just one ) and send it to a stranger. The book doesn't have to be a collector’s item; second hand is fine too, just as long as it's in English . Hopefully, you'll receive many books back to you, to keep. And they'll be favourite books from strangers around the world! And the recipient’s details will be sent in a private message. If you're interested in being part of this, please comment “ IN “ below  (Please leave your email in the Comments column).  and I'll send you all the details in a PM. Happy reading!

Dear Mr Pallewatta, •  Surround yourself with people who have achieved something in their life than surrounding with people who have inherited something, • Do not Surround yourself with those who had been " Clock Watchers ", " Paper pushers " and " YES men", (Sadly, most public servants fall into one or all three categories above), • Surround yourself with real academics who have proven past track records than not mere title holders, • I am yet to see that you are blaming any of the past regimes for all our misery and it is a superb quality, so please maintain the same approach, Once you are elected, • Give all those who had been accused of misappropriation of state funds a general amnesty, (You need not follow Mahathir Mohamad or Mikheil Saakashvili ’s styles), (Start with a clean slate so waste of more public funds spent in the form of Investigations & Commissions can be saved), • However, ensure Treason, Murder, drug-related crimes, rape/sodom...

Accidentally or destiny You walked into the neighbourhood  Some years back. Became the Pet of all The Protector of the  Cul de sac. Escorting neighbours  And chasing away the unwanted elements Day or Night. Like all of us Even you must have wished If you had wings too when monkeys Invade your own Domain. You left us on a very auspicious day And were buried with so much care By your neighbourhood friends. Your eyes were closed then So you may not have seen But there was none  Who did not shed tears? Among the crowd. You gave us protection And Joy and Most importantly An Opportunity for us to Earn more merits  In this journey of Life. May you be blessed with A better Birth Next time around With all the a...

DUMBFOUNDED IN DEHIWELA: What else would you expect on hearing that an owner of a company has gifted, yes GIFTED, his business to his employees. In today’s world of avarice and greed, this is indeed a remarkable story of a man, who given a second chance in life, has shown that the well-being of people is far better than the pursuit of riches. Meet Ranjan Ratnasena, 66, the former owner and chairman of KleenPark Auto Detailing who probably is the only man in Sri Lanka to have given away an enterprise built from scratch, and after 30 years of hard work, to his employees. Why? This is the first question for Ranjan, a very private person, someone who didn’t even want his photograph taken for this story. “Most people think that material success has a relationship to happiness and well-being. Even the government and the media hoist this concept on us as they try to encourage the pursuit of consumerism in a bid to boost economic growth. But this is wrong,” says Ranjan. “I firmly believe that...

පෙරේරා - කොහේද ගිහින් හිටියේ දැක්කෙත් නැහැ හුග දවසකින් මිස්ටර් සිල්වා, සිල්වා - මමත් හිතුවා මේ 20-20 තරගෙට ඉදිරිපත් වෙන්න කියලා, ඉතින් ඒකට ලැස්තිවෙවි හිටියේ, පෙරේරා - ඔවාට ඉතින් වියදම් කරන්න කෝ සල්ලි? සිල්වා - ඔය හොරකම් කරලා යටි මඩි ගහ ගත්ත කෙනෙක් ඉදිරි පත් වෙයි අයිසේ, පෙරේරා - එතකොට මිනිහා නිකම් සල්ලි වියදම් කරයිද එහෙම? අර කතාවට කියනවනේ මීයක් කඩන්නේ අත ලෙවකන්න නෙමෙයි කියලා, සිල්වා - මිනිහා ඔනේ එකක් ලෙවකා ගත්තාවේ මිස්ටර් පෙරේරා, මට තියෙන්නේ දැක්කේ නැහැ වගේ ඉන්න එක විතරයි, පෙරේරා - ඉතින් මිනිස්සු කැගහන එකක් නැති වෙයිද මිස්ටර් සිල්වා, සිල්වා - මිනිස්සු ඔහේ කැහපුවාවේ, අපිට තියෙන්නේ ඇහුන් නැහැ වගේ ඉන්න, ඔය දැන් අපුරුවට දෙගොල්ලක්ම කරගෙන ගියේ, පෙරේරා - තමුසේ තමයි මිනිහා දවසකටවත් මිනිහා මිස්ටර් සිල්වා. මටත් ඉතින් බලලා හොද හැන්දක් දෙනවකෝ එපා නොවෙන්නම බෙදා ගන්න, සිල්වා - බලමු බ්ලමු ඔවට තව කල්තියෙනවනේ මිස්ටර් පෙරේරා, අනික ඉතින් යාලුවෝ අමතක කරන ජාතියේ මිනිහෙක් නෙමේ නේ මේ සිල්වා.

The banning of social media platforms in Sri Lanka due to some seemingly communal violence is as despicable as the orchestrated violence. I think it is the time for all of us to think as one nation and stand up against the banning of such platforms. Whether you are a Sri Lankan living in Sri Lanka or elsewhere in the World, it is the time for us the show our collective power by not accessing the Facebook, until and unless the full and free status is restored. We can afford to stay without it but can it afford to stay without us. Some Doubting Thomas’ will ridicule the idea of Self-imposed boycotting of accessing the site by stating that we are a small nation and the impact will be minimal and or would not even felt at all. Those who are interested in the history know, how a small bunch of people who were determined to get the due justice brought a big bus company to its knees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_bus_boycott I have decided to boycott the Facebook site until the fu...

"එකක් කඩතොලු වසාගන්නට ගොසින් මටවු කාරියා නෙකක් කඩතොලු සදා දුන්නේයි ගාල්ලේ ආචාරියා". I could not help thinking of this verse every time when I think of the present crisis in the country.  The ban placed access to many social media sites is doing more harm than helping to calm the situation down is my honest opinion.

A few days back I was fortunate enough to visit a “ ඔසු උයන ” (Herbal Garden) at Kahathuduwa, Piliyandala Sri Lanka. The garden is full of rare and very useful herbs, plants and trees needed in Ayurvedic treatments. Everything is given away free of charge. The place is well known in and around the area and if anyone is interested in visiting the place, one has to take the Kahathuduwa ( කහතුඩුව ) exit on the E01 expressway and ask direction, which is another 05 minutes’ drive away from the exit point.

Show a gentle and Humane way of Snuffing the life out of Another. Convince me that, It will be Easy and painless as Breathing fresh air into One’s lungs. Open pens’ gates Would they stay or Would they run? See what they would opt for In one’s own eye first. Convince me and Show me the humane way Of snuffing the life out of Another. Till then I rather Prefer to stay A Veggie forever.

It is a shame that being a tropical island with some much green around that being a vegetarian is a very difficult thing to follow when one venture out for an occasional Eat out adventure. The choices available are extremely limited compared to non-vegetarian items on restaurant menus. The invariably the waiter would suggest “How about a Chopsie Sir?". See the grimace on the face he would change the tack “Then devilled Mushrooms Sir” or he will blurt out some “Kankun” something or finally cap up the blurting out by suggesting “Bean curd” something. Where are the innovative local chefs? I am sure they have not run out of choice vegetables available in the market. Forget Alu Kehel (Ash plantains), Karawila (Bitter gout), Pathola (Snake gout), Nelum Ala (Louts roots), Kos (Jackfruits), Del (Breadfruit), Maiyokka (Cassava) or Bathala (Sweet potatoes), but what is wrong with Bandakka (Ladies fingers) or Wambutu (Brinjal) as substitutes, if the former ones are too difficult to cook. The...

Trustworthy and farsightedness should be the prerequisites for anyone taking up a public office. Not flamboyant educational qualifications and or lack of them. Are we really seeking them when casting our votes? I do not think so. If that was the case, then Sri Lanka would have been a First World Country many decades ago. The problem here is that we do not want to change the status quo. Because then we will lose all our own networks and contacts, ( where we can get almost anything done by using them ), and eventually to lose our higher place in the hierarchy of the society's pecking order. First, we send scoundrels to the legislature and then start lambasting them on social media platforms. What is our share in this mess?

My family was away from the country for two months in the latter part of the 2017 and has realized on the return that the Dialog Tv connection has been disconnected due to non-payment. The due amount was immediately paid and an official request was made to get the connection activated back. After waiting a few more days without getting any positive results from their end, it was decided to call their helpline to get the matter resolved. Again an official complaint was lodged but like in the past, no help came through. After two failed attempts to get the connection activated again, it was finally decided to inform them that we were no longer interested in retaining their connection. The Helpline was given all required details to enable them to finally disconnect us from their listing. We thought that we have put the matter to rest finally but to our utter dismay, we have received another invoice recently billing us over Rs 5000/= of unpaid bills. The Dialog had been known to fleece cus...