“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve” George Bernard Shaw Pic from SundayTimes.lk

This is what I searched today on Google when I heard it on the Radio. Surprisingly it was true as the Daily Mirror had an article. Either Minister Dulles is promising this to gain votes for the party before the election or if it is indeed true us Colombo dwellers can hope to live trouble free as all the politicians might move to the new capital! “Built over two hundred years ago the city of Colombo...

An interesting viewpoint, which I thought might set the stage for a few comments!!! Is THIS what it is REALLY then, this whole issue of the IDP’s in camps? Silly me, and I was actually naïve enough to think that BOTH SIDES were actually discussing the pro’s and con’s of WHY the IDP’s couldn’t be re-located to their natural residences soon. Could it REALLY be that, IN FACT, what we (the Majority)...

Sad as this seems it sounded funny as UK has been putting Sri Lanka under fire. Article from the Guardian Yarl's Wood: strongly criticised by the children's commissioner for England. Photograph: Dan Chung Ministers were facing accusations today that hundreds of children are being held unnecessarily in immigration detention centres as official figures revealed, for the first time, that 470...

When I read this headline today I thought it was something to do with the aftermath of war. But it was about the plight of two baby elephants in Pinnawala. “The army and the police were deployed to tear two tiny baby elephants from their protesting mothers at the behest of Minister of Sports and Recreation Gamini Lokuge, who granted Diyawadane Nilame Nilanga Dela`s wish that the little jumbos...

Sri Lanka’s soon-to-be-ex-Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva took time off from his busy schedule of sipping martinis, getting up the Americans’ noses, and fighting on the Western Front, to have a little chat with us. This is his first interview since the Foreign Ministry announced that he has been recalled from Geneva, effective August 20th. http://blacklightarrow.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/out-in-the-wilderness-dayan-jayatilleka-on-pleading-the-13th-being-a-hippy-and-getting-sacked-by-boggles/

It is indeed a great sign for us……

The afternoon was hot and humid and a merciless sun scorched everything preparing the ground for the evening showers that rolled from the east like angry gladiators. Bob Dylan was on CD, beautiful words coined together and in the unmistakable nasal rendition mewing about “times they are a changing.” Yes, the heat would change to the cool of the evening when the skies unleash and the daylight will...

Hey, Mister Tambourine man, play a song for me….. So goes the words, the musical version and as I punch my key board there are many men with fancy tambourines carelessly drumming rhythms and jingle jangling around the international stage asking Sri Lanka to plead “mia culpa” according to their hymn sheet in the handling of refugees. War victims are certainly tragic and no one denies the definition....