මිහිඳු මාවතට අලුතෙන් ආ මත්ද්‍රවය වෙළෙන්දා කව්ද?

Two young men riding on a Uva Province (UP) registered Motorbike were found behaving suspiciously with one of them with his phone in conversation with someone near the Buddha Statue in Mihindu Mawatha, Makumbura were stopped and questioned around 01.00 am this morning.

ඌවපළාතේ (යූපී) ලියාපදිංචි යතුරුපැදියකින් යමින් සිටි තරුණයන් දෙදෙනෙකු මාකුඹුර, මිහිඳු මාවතේ බුදු පිළිමය අසලදී යමෙකු සමඟ සංවාදයේ යෙදී  සැක කටයුතු ලෙස හැසිරෙන අයුරු අද අලුයම 01.00 ට පමණ සොයාගෙන තිබේ. 

Initially, they were sticking to their story of coming to the area to look for some masonry work opportunities.

When requested to call the person that they were talking to a few minutes ago to verify their claim, both of their phones suddenly went dead and were unable to contact the person nor able to recall the contact number.

මිනිත්තු කිහිපයකට පෙර කතා කළ පුද්ගලයාට කතා කරන ලෙස ඉල්ලූ විට, ඔවුන්ගේ දුරකථන දෙකම හදිසියේම අභාවයට ගිය අතර එම පුද්ගලයා සම්බන්ධ කර ගැනීමට හෝ සම්බන්ධතා අංකයද අමතක විය.

Immediately, both were handed over to someone with experience in real Police work and during his grilling, both admitted that they came to buy some prohibited substances being sold from someone here.

වහාම දෙදෙනාම නියම පොලිස් රාජකාරියේ පළපුරුද්දක් ඇති අයෙකුට භාර දුන් අතර, ඔහුගේ ප්‍රශ්න කිරිමේදී මෙහි පදිංචි කෙනෙකුගෙන් විකිණීම තහනම් මත් ද්‍රව්‍ය‍ය මිලදී ගැනීමට පැමිණි බව දෙදෙනාම පිළිගත්හ.

Both were warned not to sight this area again and allowed to go.

මෙම ප්‍රදේශය නැවත නොබලන ලෙස දෙදෙනාටම අනතුරු ඇඟවූ අතර යාමට අවසර දෙන ලදී.

We should not be so worried about buyers but have to be on the lookout to expose who the real Seller living among us.

ගැනුම්කරුවන් ගැන අපි එතරම් කලබල විය යුතු නැති නමුත් අප අතර ජීවත් වන සැබෑ විකුණුම්කරු කවුරුන්දැයි හෙළි කිරීමට විමසිලිමත් විය යුතුය.

Let us collectively make this (Mihindu Mawatha) a clean neighbourhood to live in and not a playground for those who are involved in nefarious activities.

අපි සාමූහිකව මෙය (මිහිඳු මාවත) අශෝභන ක්‍රියාවල යෙදෙන අයගේ ක්‍රීඩා පිටියක් නොව පිරිසිදු අසල්වැසි ප්‍රදේශයක් ලෙස ජීවත් කරවමු.

Shrine Room Opening Ceremony.

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Teachers Industrial Action

 Last night a friend of mine sent me a video in which a girl was lambasting teachers’ industrial action seeking better pay.

These are my responses to it given in dot points.

·         I fully agree with her argument that this is not the right time to start something like that as the whole world is grappling with an epidemic situation,

·         Having said that, one has to agree that teachers are one of the poorest paid professions in the country,

·         However, this profession has now become a refuge for most incompetent people,

·         This profession needs much better pay scales to attract talented and competent talents and not the residual found in the society,

·         At the same time, introduction of a way to measure and assess their outputs periodically have to incorporate into the system,

·         Allow foreign talents into areas where the same can’t be found locally,

·         That would help to raise the bar high in the profession,

·         But, are we ready for such drastic changes?

·         No, purely because of fear of losing vote bases and networks,

·         At present, even the local universities do not have any foreign teaching staffs like in many other parts of the developed world,

·         Therefore, it is difficult to think of even of having such changes in the primary and secondary level education structures,

·         You do not have to have a manmade event like a protracted war or natural calamity to make any nation disappear from the face of the earth,

·         Poor health and education are just enough and that is what is happening in this country and many other poor countries around the world,

·         The haves and able will seek refuge elsewhere by voting with their feet and poor frogs in the well will perish sooner than they think,

·         Remember, there will be a different world beyond the range of mountains surrounded your village,

·         Muster enough courage first to climb the mountain and then only one would realize that the so-called “paradise” that they have been made to believe and living in for centuries is not really a paradise after all.

Written with malice towards none.

Kaluwa ( කළුවා ).

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