King Sasanka – Sri Lankan Writer & Retired Aviation Professional.

When the Emperor paraded before his Subjects in his newly woven clothes, a child in the crowd cries out, “Look he isn't wearing anything at all!” And in the modern days, many of us are like the subjects in the “Emperor’s new clothes” story. For the fear of losing something, many tend to keep their mouths shut even when the truth is obvious and pretend that everything around us is just fine and working in perfect harmony, although they are not. And who takes the front seats of this phenomenon are the professionals, religious and minority leaders to name a few. The day you become or try to become the “Child in the Crowd”, you will be branded as a traitor and or a person inciting religious and or racial disharmony. But as long as we act like the subjects did, they will do exactly what the weavers did to the Emperor in the first place. Fleece! How long are we going to allow the modern day Weavers to fleece us? When do we get the courage to be that “Child in the Crowd”? Do not be afraid...

1.     Why some guard secrets like a Bitch guarding its new litter       (only to suffer in silence). 2. Stock Exchange is a Great place to Kill Time and Money both at the same time. 3. Do Birds too have suicidal tendency ? 4. Art is the best way to find and fight one's own Demons. 5. Excellence can’t be Acquired.     (Either You Have it or You don’t. So Don’t pursue Mirage, if YOU are not Endowed it with at Birth) . 6. ජීවත් වෙන්න කියක් හරි හම්බ කර ගන්න මිනිස්සු නොකරන්නේ මොනවද?     (What a man will not do to earn a few extra bucks). 7. Whatever a man does, he does it for his stomach is no longer true! 8. Why some take pictures with the Camera in a crooked angle?     (Neither landscape nor portrait) 9. Why some become abusive when the Truth being told? 10. පන්සල් ගිහින් වඳින ගමනුත් දුරකථන පාවිච්චි කරන අයත් දැන් බොහෝමය.      (Mobile phones being used e...

පෙරේරා   මම බැලුවේ මිස්ටර් සිල්වා මේ රටටත් ගිය කල කියලා, සිල්වා   ඒ මොකද මිස්ටර් පෙරේරා ? පෙරේරා  : දැන් බලනවා අයිසේ මේ සමාජ වෙබ් අඩවිවලට අරක්ගත්තු සම හරක් ගැන, සිල්වා  : ඇයි එහෙම කියන්නේ මිස්ටර් පෙරේරා ? පෙරේරා  : පිලී රසක් නැතුව බත් කටක් ගිලගන්න අමාරු සමහරු, සත්තුන්ගේ සුවදුක සහ ඔහුන්ගේ ආරක්ෂාව ගැන බොරු උජාරු කතා මේවා වල දාන හැටි, සිල්වා  : ඇත්තද ? පෙරේරා  : තව කට්ටියක් ඉනවා ටිකක් ඇග රත්වෙන්න මොනවා හරි දාගත්තේ නැත්නම් රැට ටිකක් නින්ද යනවා හොරයි, නමුත් බැලුවෙත් ආගම රැකගන්න මාර සටනක් දෙනවා දවල් දවසෙම, සිල්වා  : ඔය කට්ටිය මොනවද මිස්ටර් පෙරේරා, පෙරේරා  : ඒ මොකද එහෙම කියන්නේ, සිල්වා  : පවුලයි ලමයි ටිකයි පිටරට වල තියලා ඇවිත්, ලෝකෙන් උතුම් රට මේකයි කිය කියා දාන ටෝක්ස් බලන්න එපැයි.

I posted on my FB wall “ Beware ! Foot soldiers of the Looter gang are already in action everywhere ”. Sudden interest of needing to change the present regime is taking momentum in every social media platforms. Some hide behind saffron colour robes and some behind their Professional Titles. This is in no way in endorsing most of the actions hitherto taken by the present regime. They miserably failed and the peoples trust was pawned for a few political mileages. That is another subject. The sudden interest of wanting to change the present regime was taken my interest too being a concerned citizen. But the more I prod for answers, all what I had been getting were වැට උඩ answers than anything conclusive. This baffles me and I did some of my own detective works quietly and then I realized that these calls for changes are not really coming from concerned citizens. They are indeed being funded by the previous “ Looter Murder Gang “ from their plundered public money to create an atmosphere t...

(  This was my rejoinder to a post appeared in another social media forum, advocating the abolition of Free Education in Sri Lanka ). When we ( my wife & I ) attended our daughter’s induction ceremony at the university a few years back, the VC in his speech mentioned that the government was spending more than Seven hundred thousand rupees on every student attending that particular degree programmer. After the speeches, we were served traditional Sri Lankan food ( කිරි බත් , කැවුම් , කෙසෙල් සහ තේ ) by some senior students. That time, I was in much relaxed state of mind and I had an opportunity to observe my other fellow parents. They all were brimming from ear to ear with happiness. Among the crowd there were so many in clean cloths but that have not even being pressed to suit the occasion and their footwear had seen much better days to say the least. While returning home, I told my wife that I am happy, not only because our daughter got admitted to one of the best ...

කුණු කඳු වලට යටවී පුරවැසියන් මිය යන රටක, කුණු කසළ කළමනාකරණය කරගත නොහැකි පාලකයින් සිටින රටක, රටේ පෙනහළු බඳු වටිනා තෙත් බිම් පරිසර පද්ධතීන් කුණු කසළ නිසා වැනසී යන රටක, කුණු කසල නිසා පැතිරෙන වසංගතයන් පාලනය කරගත නොහැකි රටක අනාගතය වෙනස් කරනු වස් මහජන පෙළගැස්මක් හදමු. නිකසළ රටක් වෙත පිය මනිනු වස් පුරවැසියන් ලෙස පළමු පියවර තබමු ! එන්න, 2017 ජුලි මස 15 වන සෙනසුරාදා උදේ 10ට, කොළඹ 07, නිදහස් මාවතේ, පුස්තකාල හා ප්‍රලේඛන සේවා මණ්ඩල ශාලාවට. ඇතුල්වීම නොමිලේ. වැඩි විස්තර සඳහා : 0756621138, 0763727393

Just before the Indian independence, the Colonial masters held Gandhiji behind bars for his non-violent freedom seeking activities. So were many other Indians found guilty of defecating along the railway lines. When he was finally released from the captivity along the others who were also held there, because of defecating charges (due to over-crowding situation), they were the first people to rush out from their cells, shouting Freedom slogans. There was a time in Sri Lanka not so long ago that the Armed forces were having a very tough time recruiting new carders to supplement their drive and the government was mulling the idea of conscription to solve the issue. The forces have to go to far flung villages in abject poverty to get young boys and girls to join them.  They joined not because for their love for the country but to feed their families as no other vocation was available to them in those villages which are blighted with No schools, hospitals, roads, electrici...