Go Home Go !

Remember not to bring anyone in robes for the show of power, solidarity march on April 3rd.

මතක තියාගන්න අප්රේල් 03 වෙනිදා පැවැත්වෙන බල ප්රදර්ශන, සහයෝගීතා පා ගමනට සිවුරු පොරවාගෙන කිසිවෙක් ගෙන්වන්න එපා. 

Otherwise, they will try to steal the thunder. 

And the end result will be the same again.

Keep religion and politics apart.

ආගම සහ දේශපාලනය වෙන් කර තබන්න.

The purpose is not destruction or vandalism. 

But only to show the power of collective effort.

අරමුණ විනාශය නොවේ.

නමුත් සාමූහික උත්සාහයේ බලය පෙන්වීමට පමණි.

If the peaceful Montgomery bus boycott by African Americans, which lasted more than one year (December 5th, 1955 to December 20th, 1956), could bring about drastic changes there, I see no reason why it should not bring about results in Sri Lanka.

අප්රිකානු ඇමරිකානුවන්ගේ සාමකාමී මොන්ට්ගොමරි බස් වර්ජනය වසරකට (1955 දෙසැම්බර් 5 සිට 1956 දෙසැම්බර් 20 දක්වා) වැඩි කාලයක් පැවතියේ නම්, එහි ප්රබල වෙනස්කම් ඇති කළ හැකි නම්, එය ශ්රී ලංකාව තුළ ප්රතිඵල නොවීමට හේතුවක් මට නොපෙනේ.

Its success of it will be based on two things.

The first and foremost is non-violence, and the second is applying consistent pressure.

පළමු හා ප්රධානතම දෙය වන්නේ අවිහිංසාව වන අතර දෙවැන්න ස්ථාවර පීඩනය යෙදීමයි.

This should work as a precedent for anyone thinking of entering politics in the future to get rich. 

අනාගතයේ දේශපාලනයට එන්න හිතාගෙන පොහොසත් වෙන්න හිතාගෙන ඉන්න කෙනෙකුට මේක පූර්වාදර්ශයක් විදියට ක්රියාත්මක වෙන්න ඕන.

Out & About

Dinner For Three

Smooth Flow

The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart

Morning Rush !

Are We As Rich & Famous As We Had Been Told ?

We met a Greek family on our recent flight to the USA and had a long chat on the 10+ hour flight from Athens to the USA.

I knew by looking at them they were in their retirement. I asked them what they were doing during their working life. The answer really surprised me.

The gentleman had been working as a bartender all his life and his wife was a homemaker.

They were going to the US to see their son and grandchildren, whom they had not seen for awhile due to travel restrictions imposed to combat the spread of the virus.

And when they wanted to know where we were coming from, I was happy to say that we were from Sri Lanka, but unfortunately, they had never heard of a country called Sri Lanka before.

Bringing the tea into the conversation would stir their memory of the famous Ceylon Tea brand name, too, was met with the same response.

This made me think of two important things.

The first one was, "Can a bartender from Sri Lanka afford to pay for airfare to visit someone living in another part of the world?"

The answer to that would be a resounding "NO."

And the second question was, are we as famous as we had been told?

The answer to that question too would be a resounding "NO."

This was further affirmed when I had to borrow someone’s phone on landing in the USA to make a local call. The gentleman who was kind enough to lend his phone had never heard of a country called Sri Lanka (neither Ceylon).

I think our education system, politicians, and clergy are making too many ostentatious claims and assumptions about our country, simply to fool people and for their own survival.

 And most of our countrymen are duped into believing such ludicrous claims solely because of their frog in the well and bogus patriotic mentalities.

Airport Transit Stops

Is Religion a Number Game ?

For whatever reason, religious conversion is a personal choice and others should not interfere or meddle with the decision taken. 

The issue here and in some other poorer parts of the world is that religions have a political voice and some are fearful of losing numbers. 

If religion and politics were played on different fields without influencing or interfering with each other's affairs, this "losing numbers" mentality would disappear. 

Till then, clashes will be created by a few to stay in power and encourage by others to enjoy benefits of the disharmony.

කුමන හේතුවක් නිසා හෝ ආගමික පරිවර්තනය පුද්ගලික තේරීමක් වන අතර ගත් තීරණයට අන් අය මැදිහත් වීම හෝ මැදිහත් වීම නොකළ යුතුය. 

මෙහි ප්‍රශ්නය සහ ලෝකයේ තවත් සමහර ප්‍රදේශවල ප්‍රශ්නය වන්නේ ආගම්වලට දේශපාලන හඬක් තිබෙන අතර සමහරු සංඛ්‍යාව අහිමි වේ යැයි බියෙන් සිටීමයි. 

එකිනෙකාගේ කටයුතුවලට බලපෑම් නොකර, මැදිහත් නොවී ආගම හා දේශපාලනය විවිධ ක්ෂේත්‍රවල ක්‍රීඩා කළහොත් මේ "අහිමි ගණන්" මානසිකත්වය නැති වී යනු ඇත. 

එතෙක් බලයේ සිටීමට කිහිප දෙනෙකු සහ තවත් අය ප්‍රතිලාභ භුක්ති විඳීම සඳහා ගැටුම් නිර්මාණය කරනු ඇත.

Family Time !

Off We Go !