May 31, 2004

Yet Another Sell Out

So far the CWC and the SLMC, two small parties that usually contest the election in partnership with the UNF has stuck with them. In the past the CWC in particular would contest in partnership with the UNF and later...
Posted by raditha at 10:20 AM

May 30, 2004

Power Cuts

Today we had a 'scheduled power cut' supposedly for maintenance work. Sri Lankans unfortunately rarely work to a schedule (they probably take the president as an example, she even kept prince Charles waiting for a few hours on the occaision...
Posted by raditha at 10:44 AM

May 29, 2004

Sparrow vs Koel

The Asian Koel is a roughly five times the size of a Sparrow, yet in a mini battle that took place out side my window between a pair of sparrows and a lady Koel, the sparrows emerged a clear winner....
Posted by raditha at 4:16 AM

May 28, 2004

Rice and catch 22

The Sri Lankan government (which has not passed any bills since coming to power on April 02) is now faced with a catch 22 situation thanks to the price of rice. Two of the UPFA's pre election promises (they made...
Posted by raditha at 4:07 AM

May 27, 2004

Now everyone is a minister

When the president first appointed ministers after the recently concluded elections she made nearly every MP from her party a minister. A few were left out. These people were expected be made the speaker, deputy speaker, leader of the house...
Posted by raditha at 5:04 AM

May 26, 2004

The parting of the ways

There were many parallels between the Indian Election results and the Sri Lankan Elections a month before. Now it seems the Indians have taken a right turn towards progress while Sri Lanka has made a left turn (hand brake turn...
Posted by raditha at 3:39 AM

May 25, 2004

Growing Up in Galle

Twenty years ago, when I was a nine year old Galle was such a wonderfull place to grow up in. Our house was located by a small stream and on sunny days me and my sister seemed to spend most...
Posted by raditha at 9:53 AM

May 24, 2004

What's so civil about war?

I don't know who said it first but the first time i heard it was on a guns and roses track titled 'civil war'. Call it what you will, Sri Lanka has been tormented by an armed conflict for twentry...
Posted by raditha at 2:05 AM

May 23, 2004

Police want more rights to practice police brutality

A couple of days ago there was a new item about a six year old being abused by a policeman. A couple of weeks ago there was an article about a remand prisoner being found hanging in his cell. The...
Posted by raditha at 3:49 AM

May 22, 2004

The Last of the Fort Burghers

On friday I had the pleasure of meeting the last of the fort burghers of Galle. This venerable old gentlemen is a descendent of the portugese surveyor who studied the lay of the land in Galle 500 years ago to...
Posted by raditha at 3:13 AM

May 21, 2004

Backpacking to Gimhathiththa

Backpacking to Gimhathiththa is the title of a short story by my sister. Gimhathiththa is what is the town that's known by the name Galle, but I very much doubt if many of the modern inhabitants know of this fact....
Posted by raditha at 2:42 AM

May 20, 2004

Shorter the better

People think longer is better but it's not always so. Shorter is definitely better for speeches, monologues, paragraphs especially if they are long drawn and do not contain a lot of punctuation marks like the latter half of this sentences....
Posted by raditha at 3:06 PM

May 19, 2004

Democracy and the will of the people

How would you feel if the person you voted for at the elction was elected to parliament but was asked to resign to make way for another? This is excatly what three members of the UPFA have been asked to...
Posted by raditha at 4:08 PM

May 18, 2004

Double Bull

Double Bull is the name of a drink. There is also a brand of shirts by the same name. However the phrase is most suitable for the drama that's been enacted over the state media mafia as well as independent...
Posted by raditha at 12:42 PM

May 17, 2004

Scooped

The state media mafia yesterday carried a daring scoop. The leader of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress - one of the smaller parties in parliament is accused of having extra marital affairs and being a drunkard by a woman claiming...
Posted by raditha at 2:16 AM

May 16, 2004

Murali's Detractors

If you look closely most people who are accusing Murali of being chucker have are failures or 'has beens'. This list includes a politician (the prime minister of a country who embarasses his countrymen at every step is surely a...
Posted by raditha at 2:00 AM

May 15, 2004

A Hobsons Choice

It is said that the two party electoral systems leaves the voters with only a Hobson's choice. That's probably why the JVP started becoming more and more popular during the late nineties. Indeed their main slogan was that both major...
Posted by raditha at 1:55 AM

May 14, 2004

Murali and the Aussies

The so called all conquering australian crickets are nothing but a bunch of cowards. They a running scared of muarli. During the recent Test series in Sri Lanka had it not been for the imbecile who masqueraded as captain appointed...
Posted by raditha at 3:13 AM

May 13, 2004

Indian Election Results Follow Sri Lankan Patterns

The results from the Indian Election are coming in, it seems they have followed the same pattern that the Sri Lankan election results followed just six weeks ago. (Yes it has been six weeks since the elections, but with all...
Posted by raditha at 1:14 PM

May 12, 2004

Of Mysoor dhal and Bombay onions

A few years back sri lankans used to eats lots and lots of bombay onions and mysoor dhal, we still eat a lot of dhal and onions, only now it's called red spit lentils and big onions. Why the change?...
Posted by raditha at 1:36 PM

May 11, 2004

News Print Should be Yellow

The newspapers in this country are printed on white colored paper. The Financial Times supplement, a part of the daily mirror is an exception. Though it is printed on a pink colored paper like it's counterpart in the UK similarities...
Posted by raditha at 12:54 PM

May 10, 2004

By hook or by crook

It's blatently obvious that none of the smaller political parties are keen to prop up the UPFA to help them obtain a simple majority in parliament (this is the party that's claiming to have recieved an overwhelming mandate from the...
Posted by raditha at 11:59 AM

May 9, 2004

The Threat is mightier than the execution

In chess it's said that the threat is mightier than it's excution. That's probably why ministers in Sri Lankan threaten to resign every few weeks but never execute that decision. Very occaisionaly you see a different spectable; a resignation announced...
Posted by raditha at 3:18 PM

May 8, 2004

Murali

Murali has shown that nice guys don't finish last. This guy has finished ahead of all them today by becoming the highest wicket taker in Test cricket history. He has stood tall despite all the controversies that have raged in...
Posted by raditha at 6:46 AM

May 7, 2004

Land Slides

It was bound to happen, the heavy rains of the last few days have set off a few minor landslides and there is the threat of many more hills sliding off into oblivio. In fact 800 such sites have been...
Posted by raditha at 4:10 AM

May 6, 2004

The Ceylon Jungle Fowl.

For a long long time there have been two animal sightings that eluded me. One was the Ceylon (Sri Lanka) jungle fowl the other is the leopard. The closest I have come to seeing either of these was in yala...
Posted by raditha at 4:00 AM

May 5, 2004

Curl up in bed weather

It has been 'curl up in bed weather' these past few days at Great Western. It's always raining. The rain drops are so fine you hardly feel them but occaisionaly the clouds unleash a few minutes of fury just to...
Posted by raditha at 6:02 AM

May 4, 2004

Furious Back Paddling.

The road to Batticaloa will be closed during the night from now on. This action has been taken by the party that promised to "stop the UNP from deviding the country" came to power. The roads to batticaloa and Jaffna...
Posted by raditha at 2:18 AM

May 3, 2004

How do they get away with it?

Last ten years has seen a rapid depletion of Sri Lanka's forest cover. The last two years have definitely been the worst. (20% account for 80%). Most of this destruction has been due to illicit loggin and encroachment. The police...
Posted by raditha at 8:03 AM

Baby's first train ride

My 18 month old wanted to go on the train, so accompanied by her mom, grand parents, uncle and aunt she traveled by train from Thalawakelle to Nanu Oya, Nanu oya being the station closest to Nuwara Eliya. What about...
Posted by raditha at 7:00 AM

May 2, 2004

May Day or mayday?

While socialism is nearly extinct in other countries of the world it thrives in Sri Lanka, yet the hundreds of thousands who take part with gusto in varius mayday rallies in Sri Lanka are totally unaware that the May Day...
Posted by raditha at 7:11 PM

The Veteran

The Veteran author Frederic Forsyth has definitely lost it with the veteran. I gave up on Forsyth after reading the fourth protocol, which i thought was not worth the paper it's printed on at the time. But then the events...
Posted by raditha at 1:46 PM

May 1, 2004

The Rain

Yesterday during the drive from Colombo to the Great Western it rained. Not the wispy stuff you get outside the tropics, but real rain pouring down as if a great big dam in the sky had breeched. It cascades by...
Posted by raditha at 12:40 PM

 

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