𝑾𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒂𝒊𝒍 ( දුක් ගන්නා රාළ )

අලි මිනිස් ගැටුමට විසදුමක් නැද්ද ඇත්තටම? චන්ද්රිකා ඇරපු, වේගා හදපු, කොරෝනා හොයන රෝබෝ හදපු විද්වතුන්ට මේවට පිළිතුරු නැද්ද? තුවාලේ තියෙන කෙනාලු ඒකේ අමාරුව දන්නේ. ඔය නූගත් කියලා හිතෙන, අලි එනකොට දරුවෝ කර පින්නන් කැලා වදින මිනිස්සුන්ගෙනුත් අහල බැලුවොත් නරකද. ඔබේ උගත් කමට එය හානියක්ද? චීවරය කියන්නේ ඇදිරි නීතිය වෙලේ ගංජා කසිප්පු අදින්න දෙන අවසර පත්රය වුනේ කවදා ඉදන්ද? බඩගින්නේ ඉන්න අයට මොනවා හරි දෙන්න ගිගින් අල්ලගත්ත නම් අපිටත් ආඩම්බරයි හාමුදුරුවනේ. 5000 දෙන්නේ අවශ්ය අය බලලද නැත්නම් පාට බලලද? ග්රාම සේවකයි, සමුර්දි නියාමකයි හිටියම මදිද? පොහොට්ටුවේ එකෙකුත් ඔතනට මොකටද? සිල් රෙද්දෙන් මිග් වැහුවත් ලසන්තගේ මරණය වහන්න නම් බැරි වෙයි මේ සසරේදී වත්. කෑදරකම වැඩිවි නැවත ඉල්ලන් කෑමට සූදානම්. පරක්කු වෙලා කරගත්ත හදියම ඉක්මන් වෙලාත් කරගනී වගේ? රෑ වැටුන වලේ දවල් වැටෙන්නේ කව්ද? බාලගිරි දෝසේට කරන කෙම කොරෝනා වලට අවවලංගුද? කරලා බලමු. කොරෝනා රටින් පන්නමු. දෙරණ පෙන්නන බා චාර්ට්ස් හරියට බාර් එකට ගිහින් ඇවිත් ඇදපු චාර්ට්ස් නම් වගේ තමයි. මේවට කියන්නේ බයි චාර්ට්ස් කියලා. හැන්ද ...

Donkey to a Scholar Transforming a donkey to a scholar is considered an easy task by some. But it is not. Loading a load of books on the back of a donkey will not immediately turn it into a scholar. The load will only break it's back. That is why the world is full of (so-called) scholars who are without backbones today. But some opt to live like a donkey with their backbones intact. That is their choice and they are indeed not donkeys but truly wise ones. Others who opt to have more books than they can carry and at the end having their back-bones crushed are the real donkeys, even if they pretend to be scholars. Is සිංහ ලේ different from other ලේ ? Some are smart. They adapt to situations quicker than most. They get the lime-light, money, power etc because they are faster than most others. The latest සිංහ ලේ bull-shit is something those so-called Smart Asses have created. People blindly follow them, not realizing that by doing so, they automatically ...

To Celebrate or Not to ?

At a time when the so-called promised Relief Sacks supposed to come door to door is nonexistence and when everyone is trying to make someone a hero by inflating and praising beyond the capacity and the real worth of that person, very little have been said or written about some unsung heroes who keep this unbearable lockdown a bearable one. For some inexplicable reasons, those unsung heroes have not come in the radar screen of many including big media outlets. They are the small-time entrepreneurs who come door to door in their own rickety little mode of transports like Tuk TuK, Dimo Batta and or on a push cycle serving the needs of the people who are otherwise confined to their houses due to the lockdown. Unlike some big entities who have recently tried to fleece their own customers during this difficult times, got caught red-handed and lost the goodwill of the people, these poor chaps have never restored to such unethical business practice by hiking up the prices of the com...

The Salves that we have read about, who were chained and brought from Africa to work on farms and do other hard labour works must have loved to see their Master being beaten in public by someone else for his misdeeds during their times but it never happened. Those Slaves got liberated and now live a normal life like everyone else. However, there is another new breed of Slaves I find very interesting in this country today. They are the political Salves and unlike the other Salves, they hate to see their Master being even challenged, leave alone beaten and of course in the literal sense in public. Their Master has not served them anything good in their lifetimes but they still guard their Master’s image even like a bitch guarding its litter. A whiff confrontation in the air, this new breed of Political Slaves come at the challenger like a wounded water hog with all their guns (read Teeth) blazing. Some very easily identifiable and visible traits of this new breed of slaves are aggres...

J ust like after the Tsunami striking Sri Lanka, foreign aids have started arriving again this time too during this world pandemic situation. The last to hear was the 22 million Euros grant received from the European Commission. Eventually where the large portion it will end up is everyone’s guess but I am sure yours is not that far off from the most others. People in some parts of the country are placed under curfew and lockdown for a couple of weeks now. Despite miserably failed government efforts which were only good during media briefings to send essential food and other items to areas where lockdowns are in place, some entrepreneurs have stepped in to make some fast bucks by providing food and other items by visiting door to door. Despite the government’s assurance that assistance will be given, banks, leasing agencies and other lenders have still not heeded to those promises and are going about doing their business as usual. So far things are working out relatively g...

Most parts of the island are experiencing some form of travel restrictions and curfews due to spreading of the deadly virus. Despite these travel restrictions and curfews in force, there had been reports of mass gatherings at some religious places recently. I am sure that all those gatherings were Bona Fide and with one thing in mind and that was to invoke blessing to the entire globe and seek divine protection of the cosmic powerhouse. Usually, as masses run out of other options, seeking protection from the cosmic powerhouse is not something new to the world. However, mass gathering, breaking curfew conditions and exposing oneself to the virus and or exporting it without even knowing is not an acceptable way of behaviour. The Bell towers, Minarets and other forms of communicating methodologies have been invented and introduced many centuries’ ago. Those methods have worked well during those times but are they come useful even in this electronic and digital age too is an i...