May 31, 2006
Autthaya
It's now two months since my trip to Thailand and I haven't quite finished writing about it. From the Bang pa in summer palace we headed off to Autthaya. King Coconut in a pond (Sri Lanka)Before starting off we stopped...
Posted by raditha at 9:33 AM
May 29, 2006
The dark ages
The unholy alliance that was formed in Kandy promised to take Sri Lanka back in time to the dark ages. Six months on they haven't had much success, their most of their schemes failing miserably. Now this unholy alliance if...
Posted by raditha at 2:55 AM
May 23, 2006
Great Western.
I spent the wesak weekend at Great Western. This is the first visit to the estate since Christmas and a lot has changed since then. The pace of change and the pace of life in this part of the world...
Posted by raditha at 7:03 AM
May 22, 2006
Rewriting history.
Sri Lankan history is being written all the time. Now president Mahinda has decided to try his hand at it. As revealed in the Sunday Leader for two weeks in a row he is tearing up the presidential palace like...
Posted by raditha at 11:13 AM
May 19, 2006
The LTTE , JVP and the JHU
What does the LTTE and the JVP/JHU have in common? Two are called terrorists in the US, one is a former terrorist organization. They all want to devide the country, one along ethnic lines the other along geographic lines, for...
Posted by raditha at 5:58 AM
May 18, 2006
Unethical conversion.
The reason that we have monks in parliament is because they were able to whip up religous fever about supposed unethical conversion of buddhists to other religions. Enough people swallowed the hook and the line about a proposed 'anti conversion...
Posted by raditha at 6:07 AM
May 17, 2006
Dan Sal
Followers of four major religions live in Sri Lanka. All four teach that you should share what you have with the less fortunate. For 364 days of the year Sri Lankans forget it but do remember at times of festivals....
Posted by raditha at 6:38 AM
May 11, 2006
Government celebrates Vesak by destroying buddhist heritage
Tommorow is Vesak. Vesak any year is a special day in the buddhist calendar but tommorow is special because it marks the 2550th birth annivesrary of Lorda Buddha (some historians disagree). The government has celebrated the event by creating a...
Posted by raditha at 2:56 PM
May 5, 2006
Politicians keep their promises (for a change).
On wednesdays there was a bomb scare. A false one. A rumour started going around in the morning that a bomb had gone off in Narahenpita, fortunately it turned out to be false. People are now jumpy, each time someone...
Posted by raditha at 2:07 AM
May 1, 2006
Desperately seeking a May day rally.
The bomb that went off couple of days ago has been forgotten but traces still linger in the minds of some people. So it has been a blessing for the JVP and the UNP to political parties stuggling to keep...
Posted by raditha at 3:17 AM
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