united nations secretory general ban ki moon is engaged in an effort to interfere in sri lanka, again.why?bc he thinks there should be 'accountability' for alleged human rights violations and 'war crimes', wants 'reconciliation'. etcproblem with his s [ ... ]

So, my son Indrajit has been hot on the trail of Rama for a month now in India, and writing about yours truly while he’s at it. I don’t get on the blogosphere much these days, what with my ten heads being kept fairly occupied with other pressing matters of cosmic proportions, like watching Mervin [...] [ ... ]

as readers of sl blogs may have noticed a particular blog (named after the loser who did not marry jane austen) has taken to attacking me on a regular basis. even during last few weeks during which i was inactive. also note that up to now i have not ma [ ... ]

A friend spoke to me over the weekend about creating a social media (SM) application like Facebook as a product for Sri Lanka. I've been meaning to write about the trend towards creating SM apps and then hoping they'll boom like Facebook. Unfortunately the harsh truth is that its not going to happen. By 2010 Facebook has managed to pass MySpace, Bebo, Friendster, Orkut, hi5 and everyone else out there. Although the facts are clear, there are plenty of entrepreneurs creating SM apps that are similar to Facebook and trying [ ... ]

Arvind Kejriwal is one of India’s foremost champions of the Right to Information. Awarded the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership in 2006, Arvind has won a number of awards for his pioneering work in India. As noted on the Ashoka Foundation site, Arvind uses a 2001 law called the Right to Information Act (RTIA) to bring [ ... ]

Manik de Silva is the most senior and longest-serving Editor of an English newspaper in Sri Lanka. Presently the Editor of the Sunday Island, Manik was also a former Editor of the Daily News. In July 2009, he was elected as the President of the Editors Guild. I interviewed him in July 2009, just around two [ ... ]

As our readership is well aware of there have been countless Tamil democratic ventures around the world to achieve Tamil Eelam. These Tamil only® supreme democratic efforts© all around the world are in no way caused by the dwindling war chest of our Tamil only sole representatives®, due to minor setbacks suffered at the hands of the very GENOCIDAL™ Sinhaloids, nor is it an after effect of our Desiya Thalaivar, King, Queen and the greatest Faggot of Tamil Eelam™ attaining Eelam on the Nandikandal lagoon [ ... ]

Prof. Kumar David, an electrical engineer by training, regular columnist in traditional print media and a frequent commentator on Groundviews, talks about what’s left of leftist politics in Sri Lanka, the end of war and its impact on Tamil diaspora juxtaposed against th autocratic and essentially one-party rule in Sri Lanka. I also asked him about [ ... ]

I have always argued that the deepest division in Sri Lanka is not the so-called ethnic divide but the split between supporters of democracy and supporters of totalitarianism, and the presidential elections proved this point. Bitter arguments within the Sinhalese community generated by the candidacy of Sarath Fonseka completely demolished the manufactured image of a [ ... ]

Ivory Carvings executed by Sri Lankan craftsmen adorn many a foreign collection. In the historic period elephants were not killed for ivory, but came from private collections. Exquisite ivory carvings of statues, combs, reliquaries, etc were executed using diyatharippu lenses. There is one paramparika diyatharippu ( traditional) carver left. Soon there will be none [ ... ]

With undisputable GENOCIDE™ taking place in Sri Lanka, where millions of Tamil Eelam people are being systematically fed, watered and given an education, TamilNet is proud to report that our superior colonial white masters are lining up to show solidarity with the toilet cleaning caste of the western world [ ... ]

Ameena Hussein is one of Sri Lanka’s best known English authors. She is also one half of the Perera Hussein Publishing House, that since 2003 has published some of the best new English writing in the country. The Moon in the Water, Ameena’s first novel, was long-listed for the first Man Asian Literary Award in [ ... ]

TamilNet is proud to announce that Anoma Fonseka, the stylish First Lady of Facebook and wife of currently incarcerated Facebook President of Sri Lanka, Sarath Fonseka, is this year’s winner of the prestigious Thavam best performer of Eelam and Eelam Excellence award [ ... ]

A solitary lamp perched on a desk top lights a room. A man scribbles feverishly on paper, hunched over the light as if he’s jealously guarding what little he has. His desk is cluttered with cartoons and drawings – some of a President, others of two small children. He holds down his paper with one [ ... ]

I bump in to this tourism website promoting so call village life in Sri Lanka and I could not believe my eyes. These guys are fishing endemic fishes using poison and calling that having a wonderful day. (I don’t know where it is, I suspect somewhere [ ... ]

Sometimes words are used so often and so uncritically that they not only lose communicative value but those who utter them and those who hear them no longer know what they mean.  We really don’t know what ‘democracy’ means, do we?  Decency, anyone?  How about justice?  Love?  There are thousands of such words and terms [ ... ]

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 17 February 2010, 15:00 GMT] Scores of totally non-jobless Colombian ladies launched a protest on the pavement just outside their homes in Cinnamon Gardens in support of the 100% undeserved treatment that is being meted out to New Sun Goat Sarath Fonseka. These lovely damsels were considerate enough to take time off [ ... ]

Mr. Gomin Dayasiri’s article, titled ‘Tamil Grievances – Untouched & Unattended’ (Daily Mirror, 16 February 2010) reveals the Sinhala nationalist perspective concerning the kind of solution necessary for the resolution of the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka. It is an important piece, written by a respected senior lawyer, a nationalist. The author points to some [ ... ]

According to him, he has already admitted that UNP cannot win this election. I'm watching the 360 Degrees, political talk show on TV Derana now, and few minutes ago he said that UNP decided to contest alone in this election, to avoid UPFA getting the b [ ... ]

[TamilNet, Friday, 12 February 2010, 14:40 GMT] Lost in the frenzy of current political events in Sri Lanka, an under-reported story is that Rajan anna was most brutally abducted and RENDITION GENOCIDED™ to Sri Langa by beastly Sinhaloid intelligence agents. The abduction took place in late January when demonic Sinhaloid yakkas captured Rajan anna from an [ ... ]

A visibly shaken wife in tears, Anoma Fonseka told the media “this is the gift my husband got for finishing a 30 year war”. Gen Sarath Fonseka was arrested, or detained, or taken into custody or may have been even abducted by a military group late in the evening on Monday from his office, in [ ... ]