During the worst days this country faced in its contemporary history, now dimming in memory, of LTTE and JVP terror, people waited with trepidation for news...
Saturday 4th December, 2021 It never rains but it pours, as they say. A Sri Lankan infected with the Omicron variant of coronavirus has been detected....
Friday 3rd December, 2021 The Opposition has embarked on a campaign to have former SJB MP Ranjan Ramanayake released from prison, we are told. Posters have appeared...
Thursday 2nd December, 2021 Why is it that only the Opposition politicians have brainwaves? Exceptional abilities are said to emerge in some ordinary people after brain...
Wednesday 1st December, 2021 An oft-heard complaint is that Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa is more absent than present in Parliament during the ongoing debate on Budget...
Tuesday 30th November, 2021 Sri Lankans have a remarkable ability to forget. That may be the reason why Prabhakaran failed to achieve his goal despite all...
Monday 29th November, 2021 Maithripala Sirisena did not want to remain a Cabinet minister in the UPFA government, which he left in November 2014 mainly because...
The President and his government has swallowed some nasty stuff of their own making and finally backpedaled on what was proclaimed as an ironclad ban on...
Saturday 27th November, 2021 Members of Parliament consider themselves a special class, and jealously guard their privileges. Living off the public, they want first dibs on...
Friday 26th November, 2021 One may wonder whether those who run gas companies are the cousins of Zahran, the savage, who organised the Easter Sunday explosions...