Sri Lanka’s Water should NOT be privatized
It is predicted that by 2025, over 5billion of the worlds population will not be able to access fresh drinking water. The population has hit 8billion already. 2025 is just 3 years...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / International Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Role of India / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 26th November 2022
It is predicted that by 2025, over 5billion of the worlds population will not be able to access fresh drinking water. The population has hit 8billion already. 2025 is just 3 years...
Colonial & Neo colonial / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 22nd November 2022
On 21st November 2022 a handful of teachers & principals arrived wearing casual clothing instead of sarees. Ceylon Teachers Union (representing over 50,000 teachers) VP Rasika Handapangoda claims there have been social...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Constitution Related / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 6th November 2022
Sri Lanka has 4 land registers & successive governments continue to pass amendments without passing 2 simple insertions that would protect land owners & their lands including State land. Whether this is being...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 1st November 2022
ජනතාව දේශපාලකයින් තෝරා ගන්නේ භූමිය සහ භූමියේ සම්පත් ආරක්ෂා කිරීමටයි. දේශපාලකයන් තේරී පත්වන්නේ ඉඩම් සහසම්පත් විදේශිකයන්ට හුවමාරු කිරීමට නොවේ පසුගිය වසර 70 පුරාවට විදේශ උපදේශකයින් විසින් හසුරුවා ගැනීමට ඉඩම් ස්වෛරීභාවය අන්සතු කර ඇත. ශ්රී...
Chartering Our Future / Constitution Related / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties
by Shenali Waduge · Published 28th October 2022
It is very clear that the drama over dual citizenship came with ulterior motive to initially prevent Gotabaya Rajapakse from contesting Presidential Elections. This was why the 19a was hurriedly passed in March...
Chartering Our Future / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties / Role of India
by Shenali Waduge · Published 25th October 2022
India is the world’s 2nd largest populated country with 1.38billion people. India comprises 28 states and 8 union territories. Tamil Nadu is just one of the 28 states. Tamil Nadu is the 6th...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Constitution Related / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Lessons for Sri Lanka
by Shenali Waduge · Published 23rd October 2022
The 19a passed in April 2015 included clause that no MP could be a dual citizen. The then President & the Election Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya failed to ascertain whether nominees to...
We gained nominal independence in 1948. Nominal, because the Queen remained Head of State & UK Privy Council was the Highest Court inspite of being called ‘independent’. Hardly, 10 years into post-independence, a...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Ethno-Religious Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Role of India / Sri Lanka Politics / Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam
by Shenali Waduge · Published 21st October 2022
“Divide & Rule” යටත් විජිත පාලනයේ ප්රධාන අංගයක් විය. නීතිවිරෝධී ලෙස ඉඩම් සහ බලප්රදේශ අත්පත් කර ගැනීම, ව්යාජ ඉතිහාසයක් සිටුවීම, වෛරයෙන් හා ප්රචණ්ඩත්වයෙන් මනස ආක්රමණය කිරීම නොනැසී පවතින උරුමයක කොටසකි. ඉතිහාසඥයන් මෙම ව්යාජ ප්රකාශ,...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Role of India / Sri Lanka Politics / Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam
by Shenali Waduge · Published 20th October 2022
Divide & Rule was a key component of colonial rule. Illegally taking over lands and territories, planting fictitious history, infesting minds with hate and violence is part of a legacy that continues unabated. Sadly,...