What India plans next for Sri Lanka & the Real Tamil Homeland
Shenali Waduge Given the argument that India planned for and orchestrated an internal problem in Sri Lanka in the form of the LTTE it had to have thought of varied…
India a manipulation of Sri Lanka to hide Tamil Nadu demands for separatism
Shenali Waduge India manipulation of Sri Lanka to hide Tamil Nadu demands for separatism Creating, aiding & assisting the separatist agenda in Sri Lanka was for India a necessary evil…
Sri Lanka: Foreign Trade Agreements should not end up another form of invasion
Shenali Waduge The Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement or CEPA had been negotiated over two years ago. If India is now seen pressing for its activation we need to not only…
It is India that must be grateful to Sri Lanka
Shenali Waduge It was the nationalist thrust with a clear message that Sri Lanka wanted thirty years of terror to end that galvanized & provided courage to the Government of…
Only a Popularly Elected person should be appointed as the Prime Minister. A Point of view.
Dr Sudath Gunasekara President Senior Citizens Movement Mahanuwara 14. 4. 2010Now the elections are over the appointment of the Prime Minister appears to have come to the forefront of the…
Sri Lanka General Election & its aftermath
Shenali Waduge General elections held throughout the island for the first time devoid of LTTE presence has concluded. With 20 of the 22 district results out, the ruling UPFA has…
Predicting Sri Lanka general election outcome
Shenali Waduge While the winner of Sri Lanka General Election is a foregone conclusion, the task at hand is to predict the number of seats the ruling UPFA Government is…
Proportional Representation System that killed Democracy in Sri Lanka
Dr Sudath Gunasekara. President, Mahanuwara Senior Citizens Movement. 4.4.2010 Proportional Representation system that has messed up and ruined the entire election system was introduced to Sri Lanka by the 1978…
Lessons from Sri Lankan Presidential Election & Sri Lanka Future
Shenali Waduge The 2010 Sri Lankan Presidential Election turned out an anti-climax. All the pundits got it wrong & what was promised to be a hard-fought out election practically a…
The CHANGE euphoria in Sri Lanka Presidential Election
Shenali Waduge What has America learned from the Obama experiment? By end 2009, almost 700,000 Americans had lost their jobs, 1.4million Americans were unemployed, a further 30,000 US troops had…
Has Sri Lanka ever had uncorrupt leaders?
Shenali Waduge This is a question the public needs to ask themselves. For in answering this basic question the voter will realize the hypocrisy of democracy itself & the reality…
The Sri Lankan – Crisis; Colonial conspiracies, myths and fallacies invented by the Tamils
Dr. Sudath Gunasekara. (SLAS) President Senior Citizens Movement. Mahanuwara Writing from USA17.7.2009. It is usually we the Sinhalese who are blamed by the Tamils and the West for the so-called…
The 13th Amendment. Why are we wasting our precious time
Dr. Sudath Gunasekara (SLAS) President Senior Citizens Movement .Mahanuwara /U.S.A. Devolution of power under the 13th Amendment appears to be the most discussed and most controversial subject today in our…
The 13 amendment ‘The illegitimate child of Indian expansionism and Sri Lankan political naivety’
Dr Sudath Gunasekara (President Senior citizen’s movement Mahanuwara) –19 11. 2008ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ -Now that once again the infamous and much debated 13th amendment is trying to raise its ugly head, I…
Why we should reject Devolution under the 13th Amendment
Dr Sudath Gunasekara. President Mahanuwara Senior Citizens Movement- writing from U.S.A. 15.6.2009. _“Manga hondata tibenam -Yanta parath penenam Kima bediwala yanne -Man mulawu ekaku se” –_An old Sinhala dictum If…
The LTTE & the Tamil Diaspora have fooled their own people
Shenali Waduge With every advance made by the military it was obvious that the Tamil Diaspora was getting more & more agitated. Thus the acid attacks, the vandalism to the…
The 13 amendment ‘The illegitimate child of Indian expansionism and Sri Lankan political naivety’July 04th, 2009
Dr Sudath Gunasekara (President Senior citizen’s movement Mahanuwara)–19 11. 2008 -Now that once again the infamous and much debated 13th amendment is trying to raise its ugly head, I thought…