Monthly Archives: June 2011

Fear grips survivors of Sri Lanka’s war

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By Staff Correspondent | Published on June 10, 2011 at 2:22 am

Killing & State intervention at a funeral – new forms of suppressing liberty

Criminalising dissent
The killing of Roshen Chanaka Ratnasekara, a 22-year-old factory worker in the Free Trade Zone (FTZ) in Katunayaka, during a demonstration last week, sends a chilling signal to the rest of Sri Lanka on how peaceful protesters would be dealt with. Those familiar with police accountability will accept that police cannot carry […]

By JC Weliamuna | Published on June 10, 2011 at 12:29 am

The Ideal husband

HUMOUR with Lakshman Indranath Keerthisinghe As laughter is said to be the best medicine, this page is dedicated to the entertainment of its readers.

One day my housework-challenged husband decided to wash his Sweatshirt. Seconds after he stepped into the laundry room, he shouted to me, ‘What setting do I use on the washing machine?’
‘It depends,’ I replied. […]

By Lakshman Indranath Keerthisinghe | Published on June 8, 2011 at 8:34 am

Wife swap

A man was sick and tired of going to work every day while his wife stayed home. He wanted her to see what he went through so he prayed:
‘Dear Lord: I go to work every day and put in 8 hours while my wife merely stays at home. I want her to know what I go through. So, please allow her body to switch with mine […]

By Staff Correspondent | Published on June 7, 2011 at 9:35 am

DOG FOR SALE

A guy is driving around the back woods of Montana and he sees a sign in front of a broken down shanty-style house:
‘Talking Dog For Sale ‘He rings the bell and the owner appears and tells him the
dog is in the backyard.
The guy goes into the backyard and sees a nice looking Labrador retriever sitting […]

By Lakshman Indranath Keerthisinghe | Published on June 7, 2011 at 3:24 am

Fallen heroes in South Asian cricket

As Sri Lanka continues to grapple with match fixing controversies, former Sri Lankan skipper Hashan Thilakaratne is still to go public or before Colombo’s Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and actually spill the beans.
Just as he says, names of Sri Lankan cricketers have been linked many times to match fixing controversies. Only nothing has so far […]

By Dilrukshi Handunnetti | Published on June 6, 2011 at 3:06 am

“We will hunt you down and kill you like a dog”

I feel it would have been better if they had killed me rather than subject me to that inhuman degrading torture. To go back to that time is to re-live every painful moment. The day I was abducted and tortured is seared in my memory. Branded upon my soul. The words of my abductors lash out […]

By Poddala Jayantha | Published on June 6, 2011 at 12:53 am

Arundhati Roy on exclusion, feminism and resistance movements

Arundhati Roy is clearly among the most controversial and prominent Asian writers of the present day. This controversial identity is something she unrepentantly enjoys. The 1997 Booker Prize winner for her God of Small Things and one of India’s most well known foremost writer’s of non-fiction, in Roy’s own words, she likes to ‘hang a […]

By Dilrukshi Handunnetti | Published on June 4, 2011 at 3:43 pm

Boxing Mervyn Day

06 JANUARY 2008: As a political hit man to President Mahinda Rajapakse, Dr. Mervyn Silva would be entitled to a double PhD. He has the perfect qualifications. An impressive entourage of gangsters, drug dealers and double murder suspects, no sense of shame and a vocabulary that would make a sailor blush. He is also a […]

By Staff Correspondent | Published on June 4, 2011 at 3:34 am