For many well placed Sri Lankans with friends in powerful places the UNHRC’s 2015 resolution is like the dog’s tail that they wish to straighten and knowing it well the government, who cosponsored the UN […]
Lankan politicians going round the Mulberry Bush should avoid the fall
“Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush” is a simple game involving kids holding hands in a circle and moving around to the first verse, which is alternated with the specific verse, where the players […]
Need to form farmer cooperatives to boost development drive in North
The Cooperative Movement had been tried successfully in many countries, including Germany, to solve the problems of small farmers and artisans and in 1911 elite leaders introduced the Ceylon cooperative Credit Societies Ordinance and passed […]
Call to protect and uplift the lives of the neediest people in North
Eight years have rolled on since the civil war ended in 2009 and with the government progressing at snail phase with its reconciliation programme; affected people are subjected to mounting many crimes and social problems […]
Where the Mind is without Fear
In his poem “Mind without Fear” the universal poet Rabindranath Tagore drafts a map of the world as he wants to demolish borders of the world when he says “Where the world has not been […]
Inland Revenue Bill (IRB) is a must for Sri Lanka today!
In Sri Lanka, the direct tax system is very low when compared to many countries in the region; in a country where 20% of the population are rich, who live mainly in urban areas, find […]
Sri Lankan politicians in wilderness
“Panem et Circensus”, literally “bread and circuses”, was the formula for the well-being of the population, and thus a political strategy; a mechanism of influential power over the Roman mass; an efficient instrument in the hands […]
There’s more to “Yahapalana” than meets the eye
Northern Breeze with knowledge and information available in the media has come to the conclusion that there’s more to it than meets the eye, for the situation is not as simple as it seems to […]
Dry zone farmers in Sri Lanka should adopt modern methods to conserve precious water resource
In Sri Lanka, the situation related to precious water resource is very different in Jaffna peninsula and many nearby small islands with no rivers rely heavily on groundwater to meet their water requirements. As demand […]
SRI LANKAN POLITICS AND BUDDHA DHAMMA
” … Attaana”m ce tathaa kayiraa Yatha~n~nam anusaasati, Sudanto vata dammetha, Attaa hi kira duddamo …” (Dhp. 159) Buddha told his followers “You should do to yourself, what you have instructed others to do. Well-tamed […]