Sunday, 10 Sep 2023
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By Rajpal Abeyanayake
After all the arguments about a secular State and whether Sri Lanka should be secular or otherwise, it’s ridiculous to watch what’s happening with regard to borderline religious fanaticism creeping into some sports, at national level. The reader may ask, what has one issue got to do with the other?
What has the idea of secularity got to do with sport at national level and...
Opinion:
Why is the current frenzy in certain quarters focusing allegedly ‘on the true perpetrators’ of the Easter Sunday attacks, such a disservice to the cause of fighting just the kind of terrorism that took place on the day of the Easter carnage?
It’s because those seeing terrorism as a fruit salad of causative factors do not know the first thing about how so called Islamic...
It’s funny seeing the reactions to recent emergency measures enacted to ensure there is no food shortage, by those who call for draconian lockdowns. If they cannot see the contradiction, it must be because they are generally purblind.
This is an era when an arch neo-liberal of the ilk of Emmanuel Macron the French President, is calling for economic independence. For whom...
Politicians who don’t have much of a pubic base of support, generally dominate the right wing opposition in this country. It’s not as if they have never been in power. On the rare occasion, they manage to win an election too.
The rest of the time, they criticise, but there is one thing that’s significant about the advice they impart. They seem to work, with unerring...
The critics have been quick to stick the Suppressor-in-Chief label on President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, but they should look around and identify the one thing about his presidency that’s most significant — next to the fact that he is a workaholic.
The GR Presidency has so far been characterised by a whole swathe of enabling behaviour that can be seen as a good example of Live...