𝑾𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒂𝒊𝒍 ( දුක් ගන්නා රාළ )

It is obvious that there is some behind-the-scenes work involved in the recent coal tender revocation. Calling for a new tender allows opportunists to gain an unfair advantage and deceptive gains once more. How to avoid such an incident occurring in the future is as paramount as securing the next consignment before the country falls again into total darkness. Failing to fulfil the contractual obligations is a good reason not to release the deposited tender fee by the party who got it awarded. The other steps are to ban and blacklist the company in question for life for participating in future tenders. Blacklist the chairman and other company directors. The purpose of the second measure is to avoid the same entity resurfacing under another name with the same bunch of crooks posing as directors etc. Furthermore, those who have been blacklisted for a certain period will automatically lose their credibility and will not find any more directorships in other companies. If no such blacklist e...

Taking one’s own life and or assisting another person to end his or her life has never been endorsed by the Buddha.  If that is the clear teaching, how come someone dressed in robes and claiming to be a monk openly threatens the authorities with immolation, if the electricity tariff for places of worship is not reduced? It is clearly stated in the basic code of monastic discipline that the punishment for such an act is ex-communication for life. Hence, there is no ambiguity in the teaching and why the concerned authorities are still silent and not taking the appropriate action against this person in robe. The Original Post.

Colonial subjugation is no secret to many in the Indian subcontinent, and Sri Lanka is no different. Talking about how much they have presumably looted from us is of no use now, after seven decades of independence. There are many numbers circulating on many social media platforms suggesting the wealth taken away from us runs into billions of dollars. How those numbers have been computed has no significance, but I have yet to see any credible number of the absolute value of the things the masters left behind for our use. When the masters left, they left the country with no foreign loans taken in our name, and instead left a surplus of money in the treasury. In fact, it is a known fact that Ceylon was able to loan some large sums of money to the United Kingdom to enable them to pay back some of the money borrowed to run the WW II effort. They left us a functioning democracy. very viable education, health, and legal systems. Functioning rail and road transport systems. Many airports are d...

ණය කුළුණට නැගපු කහ කුරුල්ලෙක්ට තව්තිසා දෙව්ලොව පෙනිලා. ජීවිතේට මාර්ග පලයක්වත් ලබා ගන්න බැරි වුන්ට මේක හොඳ අවස්තාවක් අඩුම ගානේ දිව්‍ය ලෝකයක් හරි බලා ගන්න. රුපියල් 500 නේ යන්නේ. ණය කුළුණට නගින්න යන වස්සෙක් කියනවා ගෙවලා ඉවරවුනාම මේක අපේනේ. මේ වස්සා දන්නේ නැතුව ඇති මුගේ මුණුපුරන්ගේ දරුවන්ටවත් මේ ණය ගෙවලා ඉවර කරන්න බැරි බව. නැගලා බහින වැස්සියෙක් කියනවා ලඟදිම අපේ ඩොලර් ප්‍රශ්නෙත් විසදේවිලු විදේශ සංචාරකයන් මේ ණය කුළුණ බලන්න එන්න ගත්තම. තව වැස්සියක් මේකෙනුත් හොරා කාපු එකාට අනේ පිනුත් දෙනවා. මේ වගේ වස්සෝ වැස්සියෝ ඉන්න රටක් ඉතින් කවදා දියුණු වෙයිද.    

This was what I penned when Sri Lanka won another Cricket cup, way back in 2014. Nothing much has changed conditions-wise, except the situation has grown grim, yet some idiots still go Gaga, over a couple of sports wins. What are we celebrating? Can someone tell me, please? Per Capita income is less than the US $ 2000 Not even 3% of the GDP is invested in Neither Education nor health. Spend more than SLR 100 Million a day Just to glorify one person only Corruption is endemic And we are at the bottom end of the list With Sudan and Afghanistan etc. Winning T20 is not worth celebrating I will join the crowds on the streets Only when we beat Sweden and Singapore In the list of least corrupt nations or Invest at least 6% of the GDP in education and health Limit spending to glorify one person And uplift the Per Capita Income At least to the US $ 5000. Those are worth Celebrating and not just a T20 win And who will remember it in a few weeks' time What are we celebrating? Can someone tell...

Mona was a very handsome Jordanian girl who worked as a cabin crew member at Oman Air. Once, I was dispatching a Colombo-bound flight in the middle of the night, and Mona oversaw the rear cabin on that flight. Just before I closed the rear passenger door, I told "Mona" I needed a favour”. She was always very obliging and asked, "Tell me, what is it?" I knew well that there would be Sri Lankan newspapers' uplift from Colombo for the return sector, so I asked her, "If you get time, can you secure a couple of local newspapers for me, please"? She happily said, "No issue" and the flight was released on time because I had to come back again the following morning to handle the arrival as well. When I met the aircraft and opened the rear door, she was beaming and gave me a thumbs-up to confirm her action. After all the passengers alighted, she came to the front with a heap of local newspapers, and immediately I realized that there was somethi...

අපි පොඩි කාලේ අපිට කියලා දුන්නේ ලෝකේ හොඳම අධ්‍යාපනය තියෙන්නේ අපේ රටේ කියලා. අපි ඉතින් වැඩිහිටියෝ, ගුරුවරු කියපුවා ඒ විදියටම පිළිගත්තා ඒ කාලේ. පස්සේ තමයි අපිට තේරුනේ මේ ඔක්කොම අපිට කියලා තියෙන්නේ පල් බොරු කියලා. හැබැයි ඉතින් ඒ කට්ටියටත් වරදක් කියන්න බැහැ. මොකද ඒ කට්ටියත් අර ගිරව් වගේ අපිට කියලා තියෙන්නේ ඒ කට්ටියත් පොඩි දවස් වල තව කාගෙන් හරි අහන්න ලැබුන දෙයක් මිස තේරුම් ගත්ත දෙයක් නොවන දෙයක් නිසා. මෙච්චර හොඳ අඪ්‍යාපනයක් තියෙන රටට තාම බැරි වුනා නෝබල් තෑග්ගක් ගන්නවා තියා නාම යෝජනා ගොඩකට වත් එක් වෙන්න. හිටපු ඇමරිකානු උප ජනාධිපති අල් ගෝර් මහතාට පිංසිද්ද වෙන්න යන්තම් මොහාන් මුනසිංහගේ නම ගෑවුනා විතරයි නෝබල් ත්‍යාගය ලාබී ගොඩට. අනික තමයි අපේ තමයි හොඳම ඉංග්‍රිසි තියෙන්නේ මහා බ්‍රතාන්‍යට පස්සේ කියලා. අපිටත් ඉතින් ඒ දවස් වල මළ පොතේ අකුරක්වත් නොදන්න නිසා අපිත් ඉතින් විශ්වාස කර. පස්සේ තමයි දැන් ගත්තේ රටේ ජනගහනයෙන් 3% කටත් අඩුවෙන් තමයි ඉංග්‍රිසි බාසාව පරිශීලනය කල හැක්කේ කියලා. ඒ 3% නුත්, 90% කතා කරන්නේ අර ඉස්සර කොළඹ හතේ බංගලාවල වැඩට හිටපු ආයා අම්මලා කතා කරන "බේබි ඩොන්ට් ගො ඔන් ද මඩ ගොඩ" වගේ ...