June 25, 2007
Banning websites
Not satisified with censorship on the press, tv and radio, the government of Gotabaya Rajapaksa has decided to impose a chinese style ban on anti government websites. One of the most prominent targets of this ban is the pro LTTE...
Posted by raditha at 4:57 PM
June 21, 2007
A few good men.
All that is needed for evil to thrive is for good men (and women) to do nothing. The bad news is that there are only a few of them in this failed state. But the good news is that some...
Posted by raditha at 6:48 AM
June 16, 2007
Land of Puppets
No I am not talking about Ambalangoda famous for it's woodcrafts; Fine traditional masks and puppets. I am speaking of the country as a whole. Ours is a land of puppets. The president appoints all the ministers and because the...
Posted by raditha at 2:03 AM
June 13, 2007
Ethnic Cleansing and Scape goats
The president has ordered the police chief to make a report on the ethnic cleansing. He hasn't asked the police chief to resign, it would have been a huge huge surprise if he had done so. No one really resigns...
Posted by raditha at 4:05 PM
June 11, 2007
Ethnic Cleansing and Apologies
The government (the prime minister in fact) has tendered an apology about ethnic cleansing. They admit that it was wrong and promise not to do it again. But the damage has been done. It might have been worse if the...
Posted by raditha at 3:55 PM
June 9, 2007
Courts halt ethnic cleansing.
Thankfully the supreme court has stepped in and halted the government's campaign of ethnic cleansing, but not before the damage was done. Most of the tamils who leaving in shaby guest houses in Colombo (lodges as they are called) are...
Posted by raditha at 12:37 PM
June 7, 2007
The Rain Maker
Almost abandoned the Rain Maker by John Grisham after reading just a couple of pages. I am glad I didn't. The reason for the near abondonment is that the book starts of by giving you the impression that it is...
Posted by raditha at 2:36 AM
June 5, 2007
Da Vinci Code and the Bishops
If there is anyone worse than the extremist buddhist monks in Sri Lanka, it has to be the bishops. They prevailed upon a sinhala hard line buddhist extremist president to ban the Da Vinci Code. The film not the book....
Posted by raditha at 3:22 AM
June 4, 2007
At Close Quarters
It is not often that I abandon a book halfway through. A book has to be really really bad for that to happen. A close encounter by gerald seymour has reinforced my belief that publishers will do anything for money....
Posted by raditha at 1:34 PM
June 2, 2007
Headline news.
The man who reads the newspaper headlines has been appointed as the chairman of the Lake House - the newspaper house that operates at public expense for the benefit of the party in power. So now it's worth looking at...
Posted by raditha at 10:59 AM
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