King Sasanka – Sri Lankan Writer & Retired Aviation Professional.

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...

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 me, please? (My political ranting).

Make Buddha Jayanthi an occasion to ask, after 2600 years what have we accomplished as Buddhists ? Posted on April 11th, 2011 By Charles.S.Perera   The Queen Mahamaya Devi while on her way to  her parental home to have her baby  according to ancient custom, gave birth to a baby boy in the Lumbini Park in Kapilawattu .  The father  the Sakyan King Suddhodana  was overjoyed with the birth of a son.   But the king’s joy did not last long as  the Queen Mahamaya Devi died seven days after the birth of the Prince.   The baby was placed in the care of  his step mother Maha Pajapati Gotami, the younger sister of  the late queen.    The Ascetic Asita  Kaladevela  came to  pay respect to the King and to see the new born little Prince.  Having seen the baby the great Ascetic predicted that the Prince will  be enlightened  becoming a Buddha, but regretted that he would not be there on the  bliss...

Where is ethnic cleansing? Written by a Sri Lankan, but the true author is unknown but the facts given below are 100% accurate. Hence, decided to publish this in my Blog, so the World can stumble on it and get the correct picture . Tamils – How many Tamils are employed in southern Sri Lankan companies? (See the number of high caliber Tamils in Sri Lankan banking sector, see hotel trade, film trade and other industries) Do they experience any hardship professionally due to ethnicity? If so, how come they hold such high positions? See how many Tamil kids are getting educated in International schools? They have outnumbered other ethnicities. Royal college has Tamil medium, DS has Tamil medium. So many Sinhala major government schools have Tamil medium and they share equal opportunities. How many Tamil major schools have Sinhala medium? Private schools like St. Thomas, Trinity etc have quite a large number of Tamil students. Travel to Wellawatte, Dematagoda, Deh...

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Scene No 1. We all take our kids on our marketing trips. Put them on a trolley cart and act as if we are on a race track. I hit an old lady from behind in the aisle, then whisked past, cursing her without even an apology. Stop near the "fruits and nuts" section and throw a few of them in your mouth before stuffing a few more in his or her mouth. Sure enough, the toddler can’t read the notice posted over there. "Eating is not allowed." But he/she was just happy about the freebies Papa or Mama had stuffed in his/her mouth. Scene No 2 One day, we go to see his or her choir practice session and find him or her standing inconspicuously in the very last row. What happened? We ask him/her while heading back home. The teacher says I am too tall to be in the first row. The next day, the child is sent off to practice with a few cookie jars in a nice reusable bag that we brought on our last overseas holiday. Don’t forget to give it only to the teacher’s hand. Pick up time in...

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...

Recently, the Ceylon Electricity Board has increased their service charge from Rs 30/= to Rs 540/=. What a monumental increase that was. We live in Kottawa and we are connected to the Pannipitiya substation. These days, in addition to the island-wide power interruptions, we experience at least 2 to 3 power interruptions ranging from a few minutes to hours. It is an obvious fact then that they have no reliable service at the moment, and hence I see no reason why the service charge has to be increased so much. I was told that a simple meter reader is taking home a six-figure salary, despite the fact that the entity is losing money so much and the treasury has to supplement them for their existence. Social media is awash these days with details of some of the bigwigs’ take-home salaries. The interesting question is, why should they be paid so much when they are really not making any profit and are also bleeding the country’s coffers so much? One of the world's leading ...

My sympathies are with the people of Pakistan for having being subjected to endure atrocities in that magnitude day after day. However, you can take courage and solace from the recent Sri Lankan experience that any terrorist can be defeated, if you stick together as one. But my only word of caution is to beware of those international agencies that have lately taken moral high grounds and started calling for investigations in to human rights violations and war crimes, when a country is engage in a battle with a bunch of terrorists. In fact, the real violators and perpetrators’ of such heinous crimes are only found in the lands, where most of such frequent calls are coming from. Some of the officials who are going places and pledging so many because the talk is cheap but unfortunately none is yet to be able to show to the world that they can even   “Walk their talks” as well. Take the case of Sri Lanka’s recent victory against a bunch of terrorists who had been dubbed as the mo...