𝑾𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒂𝒊𝒍 ( දුක් ගන්නා රාළ )

ගෘහ සේවිකාවක් හැටියට මැදපෙරදිග ගිහින් දියුණු වෙන්න පුලුවන්ද? සමහර විට ඔබට මේ සිද්දිය අමතක්ත් ඇති. ඒක ඔබේ හෝ මගේ වරදක් නිසා නෙමෙයි. මේ වගේ සිද්දි අපිට දිනපතා ඇහෙන්න සිද්ද වෙන නිසා, සමහර සිද්දි අමතක වීම ස්වබාවික දෙයක්. අලුත්ම ආරංචිය තමයි ඕමාන් රටෙදී අපේ අම්මලා, නංගිලා, දුවලා ගණිකා සේවය සඳහා විකිණීම පිළිබඳ ආරංචිය. ඔය ආරංචිය අස්සේ සමාජමාධ් ‍ ය හරහා තවත් විඩියෝවක් ප් ‍ රචාරනය වෙනවා, එහෙම දේවල් ඒ රටේ වෙන්නේ නැහැ කියලා. පුදුමේ කියන්නේ එහෙම කියන්නෙත් දැනට ඒ රටේම ජීවත් වන අපේම ශ් ‍ රී ලංකිකයන් කොටසක් වීමයි. දැන් තත්වය දියුණු වෙලා නම් ඒක සංතෝසයට කාරනයක් නම් තමයි. මමත් තිස් අවුරුද්දකට කිට්ටු වෙන්න ඒ රටේ වැඩ කරපු කෙනෙක්. හැබයි එතෙකොට නම් තත්වය මීට වඩා හාත්පසින්ම වෙනස්. මේ රටවල මිනිස්සුන්ට (මිනිස්සු කියන එකත් මනුශ්ෂත්වයට නිග් ‍ රහයක්) ගෑණු කියන්නේ සෙල්ලම් භාණ්ඩයක් පමණයි. ඒක තමන්ගේ ගෑණිටයි කියලා වැඩි වෙනසක් නැහැ. ජාතී ආගම්, කුළ බේද මේ ක් ‍ රියා වලියේදි වැදගත් නැහැ. හොඳ සහ නරක් මිනිස්සු කොයි රටේත් ඉන්නවා. වෙනස මේ රටවල හොඳ කියන අය අත්ලොස්සක් පමණයි වීමයි. ගෘහ සේවිකාවක් හැටියට මැදපෙරදිග ගිහින් දියුණු...

This morning in Colombo, an old person was discovered sleeping under a public bus stop in front of the Regal Cinema. He claimed to have been a welder before ending up on the street, but because he is nearly deaf, he cannot hold a decent discussion to reveal further information about himself. He claimed he could only consume liquids and asked me to send him to a hospital or nursing home so he could receive the necessary care and rest. I was only able to buy him some beverages and ask a nearby, on-duty city traffic police to see if there was anything that could be done to accommodate his request. The policeman said he would notify and phone 911, but I'm not sure if he actually did. Please check to see if this old person's request can be granted if anyone has the power to do so. Thanks. අද උදෑසන කොළඹ රීගල් සිනමාහල ඉදිරිපිට පොදු බස් නැවතුම්පොළක් යට මහලු පුද්ගලයකු නිදා සිටියදී සොයා ගැනිණි. ඔහු පාරට බැසීමට පෙර පෑස්සුම්කරුවෙකු බව ප් ‍ රකාශ කළ නමුත් ඔහු බිහිරි බැවින් ඔහු ගැන වැඩිදුර ත...

Making it mandatory for children to come to school in a uniform to get an education is a very outdated concept. Allowing them to attend school in any attire is the way forward. Some argue that the prescription is to make all children look equal, and class disparities will not matter then, but the interesting question is for how long? Only for 8 hours, after which the rich go their separate ways and the less fortunate go their separate ways.  To maintain balance in society, it is necessary for there to be good and bad, wealthy, and poor, but I am not here to discuss or advocate how that balance should be allocated. Many kids will drop out of school if they don't have a uniform to go to school, is one thing I am sure about but whether it be labelled because of prior karma, God's will, or whatever label one chooses based on their own views and convictions, is up to each individual. In a city setting, this condition might not be as obvious, but because most of the child...

Due to the current situation in the country, most hotels are trying to bring in local guests with attractive family weekend packages that include the use of the pool without additional cost. Recently, I attended a wedding at one of these hotels, and their pool was full of young and small kids, but nowhere to be seen as any lifeguard on duty. A couple of days ago, a 24-year-old young man drowned in the pool of one of the hotels in Mount Lavinia. What really led to the drowning, I am not aware, but it was confirmed that the pool was left unattended. It took a long time to locate the lifeguard who was supposed to be on duty, and due to the lifeguard's lack of lifesaving training, and availability of necessary equipment at hand, very few attempts were made to resuscitate him after being taken out of the water. If there had been a trained person on duty that day, the fate of the young man would have been different. Therefore, the purpose of this is not to blame anyone but rather to offe...

Loading and unloading passengers in wheelchairs on flights was part and parcel of the ground handlers' daily work, and once the process was handled successfully, it was forgotten. A gentleman arriving from Pakistan would have fallen into the same category if not for the incident that happened on his departing flight. The afternoon rush was at its peak when I got a radio call from one of our colleagues to come to his flight. He said it in a very calm voice, but knowing him well and his capacity and versatility, I sensed that it must be something important, or he would have managed alone to solve or rectify the matter. As I entered the aircraft cabin, I immediately got a waft of a bad odour, and I could see some passengers were showing signs that they were not so pleased about the whole situation, especially with the odour wafting. My colleague came to me and explained the issue: the gentleman who arrived from a point in Pakistan had lost his bowel control, soiled himself, and was no...

A long-term habit of mistrust and suspicion of people without good cause is a sign of paranoid personality disorder ( PPD ), a mental health disease (paranoia). People with PPD frequently think that others are threatening, demeaning, or harming them. The idea that isolated societies think of themselves as exceptional or superior to the rest of the world is known as the " Island mentality ." This phrase describes the superiority of a group of people or an isolated individual on a cultural, moral, or ideological level rather than an island or other geographically isolated society. Narrow-mindedness, ignorance, or outright animosity against any artefact (idea, ideology, lifestyle choice, an art form, etc.) originating from beyond the geographical area inhabited by the society can be used to describe island mentality. Many people in Sri Lanka are infected with a lethal cocktail made up of the two ideas. They always have these baseless conspiracy theories and useless ...