by Vijitha Yapa, Founder Editor, Sunday Island The person at the other end of the phone calling from Nallur was very angry. “Mr Editor, you have killed me in your paper today”. I did not ask him where he was speaking from, as he may treat it as an insult. I did not know what he was speaking […]
By Gamini Weerakoon
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Wishing you ‘A Very Wishful New Year’ was our greeting to all Sri Lankans for 2020. There was a very good reason for it because 2019 was an extremely ‘Promising Year’, with Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Sajith Premadasa trying to outbid each other with promises to people that would have truly made their life in Lanka a Heaven on Earth.
The knowledgeable masses truly believed in the promises made and supporters of both candidates went into ecstasies and finally to the polls in their thousands. We as observers of the passing scene could only wish the promises made and wishes hoped for would come true.
2021: Wishing you a Miracle Year
Sri Lanka Guardian
11:03 PM
To every unanswerable question, there is always a stupid answer and the latest we have heard is that the Covid 19 is mutating and the new miracle vaccines may not work against it. That is why Sri Lankans in their wisdom have not yet decided on the issue, is the reply.
by Gamini Weerakoon
Wishing you ‘A Very Wishful New Year’ was our greeting to all Sri Lankans for 2020. There was a very good reason for it because 2019 was an extremely ‘Promising Year’, with Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Sajith Premadasa trying to outbid each other with promises to people that would have truly made their life in Lanka a Heaven on Earth.
By Gamini Weerakoon
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Quite recently we witnessed on NDTV (New Delhi Television) in its daily talk show, ‘Big Fight’: journalists, academics, medical professionals, Ayurvedic practitioners and politicians, including Narendra Modi’s BJP spokesman, in a rip-roaring shouting match on Ayurvedic medical practitioners being granted the right to perform surgery.
Showing scant regard for health guidelines, a large crowd gathered outside a Kegalle devale to get a bottle of free covid cure that Bandara Veda Mahattaya has prepared
The Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM) had issued a notification in mid-November allowing Ayurveda surgery students who had completed their post-graduate studies to perform certain surgical procedures. A list including 58 types of surgery: general, dental, ENT and opthalmological procedures had been issued.
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By Gamini Weerakoon
It is a matter of grave doubt whether any national leader or scoundrel would have had a varied and colourful record of achievements and debasements as Donald Trump in contemporary history. Trump confounded critics when he contested the American presidency four years ago, ridiculing and slandering what had been considered the sacred pillars of the American establishment the media, the Washington establishment, Intelligence Agencies (CIA, FBI and NIA), his outrageous behaviour towards women and refused to declare his income tax returns.
An American critic says Trump has survived: One Impeachment, one divorce, six bankruptcies, 26 accusations of sexual misconduct and an estimated 4,000 lawsuits. As the President of the United States, he continued in the same style regardless, taking on the national intelligence agencies, rejecting some of their basic findings, sacking the director of the FBI and granting presidential pardons to cro