The three Gorges Dam along the Yangtze River in China is the largest hydropower project ever built. The construction began in 1994, designed to generate electricity and to tame China’s longest river, to shield millions […]
Sri Lanka has Oil and Gas worth billions only if brought to surface..!
Energy Minister has said that Sri Lanka has identified oil and gas deposits currently valued US 240 billion; could well tide over the issue related to foreign debt sustainability if we harnessed the full potential […]
‘Kili’ Raja Mahendran passes away!
Saddened by the news this morning on News Ist., of ‘Kili’ Rajamahendran passing away. In 1965 after death of his father Rajendram, ‘Kili’ took control of the business, while I left for England in 1968 […]
Grievances unresolved for Sri Lankan Tamils!
This trend of Martin Luther King jr., was clearly visible after Sri Lanka turned a Republic, when the silent majority left public space for a select few to grab the agenda and control the terms […]
Sri Lanka may loose Sea cucumber market!
In Sri Lanka, sea cucumber fishery is presently confined to the northern cap from Kalpitiya on Northwestern coast through Puttalam Islands around Gulf of Mannar, Trincomalee, Pothuwil and Kalmunei in the Northeast and Eastern coastal […]
Ethnic conflict is root of all ills in Sri Lanka was caused by generations of Dynasty politics!
Sri Lanka, known as Ceylon, an island nation in 1948, shortly after end of WW II, gained independence without a bloody struggle. None then expected war in the paradise island, referred as the Pearl of […]
Emerging leaders need to reunite mother Lanka!
The reality is that it is the educated who are unwilling to learn lessons from history are the real illiterates, than those who cannot read or write! For we know, it was the past educated […]
Sri Lanka loss was to British gain!
In 1948, Sri Lanka at the time of independence, then called Ceylon was regarded as the ‘Granary of the East, with huge potential, we had a beautiful horizon ahead of us and a highway leading […]
Has Sri Lanka gone bankrupt?
The country faced three decades long cruel civil-war was followed by a negative peace decade. At present the coronavirus pandemic that is killing people; shutdown caused by it is today throttling the economy. The resulting […]
Sri Lankan foreign reserves are shrinking!
Sri Lanka’s failure after gaining independence in 1948 to live up to its initial promise of economic development could be attributed to a self created foreign-exchange crisis that persisted till 1977 because of the urgent […]
