Monthly Archives: July 2013

The Marriage Made in Hell

“Religions may begin as vehicles of longing for mysteries beyond description but they end up claiming exclusive prescriptive rights to them” – Richard Holloway (New Statesman – 15.3.2012)

Burmese monk leader of anti Muslim terror
Last week Myanmar banned the latest issue of ‘Time’ with its cover-story on the violent creed of Ashin Wirathu, the Burmese monk […]

By Tisaranee Gunasekara | Published on July 1, 2013 at 3:52 am

Rajapaksa regime- patriotism is their flag, corruption the badge, nepotism the vehicle

“Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.”
~Francis Bacon
Wrapped in the National Flag to cover all the sins that they commit without a break, the present regime and its chief ‘comrades-in-arms’ are not stopping their outlandish pillaging of the county’s coffers. Corruption has become a second nature […]

By Vishnuguptha | Published on July 1, 2013 at 3:31 am