Is trouble brewing for Lanka across the Palk Strait?

One major reason for her stoking the fires of the Sri Lankan Tamil issue will be the Tamil Nadu State Legislative Assembly elections due in April 2016. In the past, elections had been a reason for bringing this issue to the fore. In 2013, a year before the Lok Sabha (Central Parliament) elections, Tamil Nadu saw a rash of ugly agitations,

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Kuragala, Wilpattu:

Politics of heritage and politics of land

The very same racists who flourished under the patronage of the Rajapaksa brothers with began raising their ugly heads, obviously, to destabilise the Government of President Maithripala Sirisena. It was as part of this sinister move that Sinhala extremists tried to destroy the Kuragala mosque at Balangoda and levelled allegations that Muslims were illegally destroying forests and building houses at the Wilpattu National Park,

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The excellent and the scum!

This feline is purring away as she sits down to write her column. She has something good to write about, meaning she has material to record the excellence of one Sri Lankan. To her greater delight it is a person from the Kandy hills from where she too hails.

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