𝑾𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒂𝒊𝒍 ( දුක් ගන්නා රාළ )

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. It...

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 someon...