Sport has been widely known as ‘the great unifier.’ If that remains true of the 10th South Asian Games that commenced under lights at the Sugathadasa Stadium in Colombo last evening, remains to be seen. Meanwhile, will someone tell me………….. what’s with the ‘kurakkan scarves???’
These are cut ends of two banana stems. As you can see, the middle part has grown a little bit. When I saw this, I remembered an ingenious method used by ancient Sri Lankans to calculate a new borns birth time (as most of the people did not have watche…
It’s been over six months since I purchased the book “To Kill a Mockingbird – by Harper Lee” but never got around to reading it. I postponed devouring it probably after hearing my Dad’s review on it, I remember him checking out the bunch of b…
Block III, Yala NP, Sri LankaKala Wewa, Sri LankaMeemu Atoll, Maldives
Activism is a more civilized outlet for pent up indignation than militancy. Yet an entire generation of Tamils have grown up being more militant than activist. Events such as 1983 have terrorized most law abiding Tamils away from civil activism: placard-bearing demonstrators demanding equal rights for Tamils is not something you see often in Sri […]
Dear readers,
The following is a statement that I have put together as part of a very small way in which we can further lend our multiple small voices to hopefully contribute to the wider good. Undoubtedly, it is not as effective as a regular petition but considering the constraints brought about by anonymity within this virtual community of the Sri Lankan bloggasphere, I presently see no other
Dear readers,
As suggested in the post titled “An Open Petitition by Bloggers for Peace” please feel free to comment on the above post here.
Thank you.
(My apologies in advance for any confusion/complication of the situation).
Well you haven’t made a mark until your up on a billboard, so they say and that’s what I saw yesterday as I was driving my way to the ApacheCon conference.Many thanks to Virtusa for donating their hoarding to the FOSS community during the FOSSSL 2006. …
මගේ මිතුරෙක් වන අකලංකගේ පරිගණකයේ දෘඪ තැටියට වෛරසයක් ඇතුළුවී නැවත වින්ඩෝස් ඇතුල් කරන්නට සිදුව…
Not every group on earth is entitled to its own homeland. If that were, the world would splinter into thousands of tiny states. More borders mean more conflicts; more states mean more politicians and more administrative costs; smaller economies mean smaller enterprises. And since people never stop defining themselves in terms of smaller and smaller […]
So the war has now begun. The CFA is but a memory of the past. Guns blaze as lives are snuffed out. Many a combatant has lost their life; civilian lives have also been claimed. For all hardliners, this is what they want: a war in earnest. Well, you have it.
Of LTTE atrocities of the recent past (Bambalapitiya, Kollupitiya, water-deprivation in Mavil Aru & countless others), there shall be no
(to the tune of living on the edge - with slight variations)Something’s up at home todayCan’t see what it isThe smoke’s still in my eyes….The country’s going crazybut it doesn’t impact meI couldn’t care less even if I triedI’m trying short term solut…
ගූගල් සමාගමෙන් නිකුත් කරන ගූගල් ටෝක් මෘදුකාංගය කෙටි කලකින්ම බොහෝ ජනප්රියතාවයක් ලබාගත්තකි. හ…
One good thing about terrorism is that it makes conventional war look stupid.
The true weapon of terrorism is collateral damage. When terrorists consider people collateral they don’t become any worse terrorists because they are already at the bottom. When governments consider its own people collateral it is reprehensible. It is of the highest order of […]
I’m currently at ApacheCon Asia, the first ever ApacheCon in asia which is also a part of a week long FOSS event known as FOSSSL2006.You can catch all the pictures from the event on my Flicker photo blog.We had a good event yesterday at the Univerisity…
My uncle and aunt recommended that I try to find my way to uni, so I set off the next day with a map and a bus pass (for zone1) and some cash, “just in case”. I was supposed to catch 3 buses to get there.The first bus ride went fine. Just a short ride …
My uncle and aunt recommended that I try to find my way to uni, so I set off the next day with a map and a bus pass (for zone1) and some cash, “just in case”. I was supposed to catch 3 buses to get there.The first bus ride went fine. Just a short ride…
Why do many Tamils call for a separate homeland? Because like any group of human beings, they need at least one place on earth they can call home and where they will not be treated as second class citizens. There are many accomplished Sri Lankans who refuse to emigrate to developed countries precisely because of […]
After sending out an e-mail regarding another local artist’s album release, the replies I’m getting are pretty much the same. I sent information on the release of the ex-Independent Square vocalist aka Anil’s new album (Pieces of April) somewhere down …
පසුගිය දිනවල ශ්රී ලංකාවේ පළාත් බොහොමයක බුදු පිළිම වලින් බුදුරැස් විහිදීම ගැන අසන්නට ලැබුනා. න…
So so so….It’s the bloody weekend over here…and quite strangely Radikal Zee decides to go blogging after some serious thought. I was a constant “anti-blogger” until the recent past where for some reason I began to think that blogging is infact not …
A reflection of an alternate reality. I basically filled the whole page in pencil, and then erased the design. Interesting effect, yes? Am slightly dissppointed the eraser wasn’t the best…so i couldn’t go into as much detail as i hoped…
Completed at work. Yes, i know- I’m a very efficient and productive person. Thing is though, why bother working when there’re other people to do it for you?
above image of palaly airbase was saved from my google earth. (click on it to enlarge)late yesterday tigers claimed their ‘aircraft’ flew over the base and fired rockets (given that pussies have some kind of air capability this is a possibility). milit…
First of all….im wondering if the president and his other FRIENDS (as in the JVP and JHU) are actually in the country these days…cuz we are hearing very little from them…Remember those days when the elections were going on??? The way they were sc…
The latest spate of violence has claimed over 830 lives since December 2005 and left tens of thousands internally displaced in northeast Sri Lanka. Since the Eelam War officially began in 1983, well over 60,000 lives have been lost and over 353,000 internally displaced. At present, a Low Intensity Conflict is intensifying. The Kebethigollewa attack has been the biggest single blow to civilian
We are not your average sales people. We couldn’t be… had we even tried to. We shouldn’t be… because we are already selling just fine. We ought to be… because that’s what people seem to expect.We are the Sri Lankan FOSS community and we’re comi…
Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – ca. April 7, 1994) was the lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist of the Seattle rock band Nirvana. He served not only as the band’s frontman and principal songwriter, but also as its “leader and spiritual cent…
On Saturday, my friend Kunchana and I were driving down the road. There was a big SUV trying to pull on to the road and we just went around it. They were going slow, they were not really moving. so fuck it, we’ll pass them by.
Soon after, they cut in …
I always believed a society has a conscience. That it could never live without one. And then thought, what would happen if some one robs it ? A society without a conscience ? Go on, see if its possible, I told myself. See, if its possible for a society…
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