A selection of videos on the the JVP in Sri Lanka, including footage from yesterday’s farcical press conference, interviews with JVP leaders from 1971 and interviews with Lionel Bopage.
Note that most of the videos are in Sinhala.
More more videos, please visit Vikalpa Video.
බ්රිගේඩියර් ගේ බිරිද ඝාතනය කිරීම හා ඇගේ දරුවා
උවිදු කුරුකුලසූරීය
ඊයෙයි අදයි සිංහල පත්තර බැලූවම පේන දෙයක් තමයි ලංකාවේ මාධ්යවේදීන්ට ළමා අයිතිවාසිකම් හා මාධ්ය භාවිතාව පිළිබද පුඵල් දැනුමක් නෑ කියන එක.
මාකොළ දී බ්රිගේඩියර්වරයෙකුගේ බිරි`ද ඝාතනය කිරීම පිළිබ`ද සිද්ධියේ මහේස්ත්රාත් වාර්තාව ලංකාදීප ,දිවයින හා ලක්බිම පුවත් පත් වල පලවී තිබුණා. ඒ හැම වාර්තාවකටම අනුව පොලීසියෙන් පවසන්නේ මෙය මිනීමැරුමක් බවයි. මීනීමැරුමට සැකපිට තවමත් රිමාන්ඞ් භාරයේ පසුවන්නේ බ්රිගේඩියර්වරයා.
පෙරේදා මහේස්ත්රාත් පරීක්ෂණයේදී ඒ අවස්ථාවේ නිවසේ සිටි බිරි`දගේ සහෝදරයාගෙනුයි, බ්රිගේඩියර්වරයාගේ 15 හැවිරිදි පුතා ගෙනුයි කට උත්තර අරන් තිබ්බා. මේ පත්තර ඔක්කොම අර කට උත්තර අකුරක් නෑර පලකරලා අර දරුවගේ නම,වයස ඔක්කොමත් එක්ක!
අද දිවයින පත්තරෙත් ඒවාගේම සිද්ධියක් වාර්තාවෙලා ‘‘ස්වාමි පුරුෂයාගේ ඝාතනයට සම්බන්ධ නඩුවට සාක්ෂි නොදෙන්නැයි දියණියට බලපෑම් කළ මව රක්ෂිතයට’’ කියලා ඒ වාර්තාවේ තියෙනවා. මේ මිනීමැරුම සිදුවෙලා තියෙන්නේ 2001දී. …
It is with revulsion that I turned off the television last Thursday in the middle of what was touted to be question time with the President. The powdered faces of those who took part and the supine questioning lent it a grotesque theatricality, which of course, what is essentially was.
What was the idea of this media event? Was it really to answer the questions posed by the public? Or was it blatant propaganda, to further spread the “chintanaya” amongst a hapless population?
I go on in my article to lament the demise of politicians (who have crossed over to the government) who at one time were vociferously articulate on issues such as federalism and human rights and yet are today the …
The traditional Sinhala press has failed to report on the unmitigated farce that constituted the President’s recent visit to New York and the United Nations and the dire state of Sri Lanka’s international relations and diplomacy in general.
My article brings out some of the salient points. For example, that friends and relatives of the President’s wife and the Foreign Minister were also part of the President entourage, the exact number of which is still unknown. What is known however is that the entire motley posse stayed at the Ritz Carlton, where a standard room costs upwards of SLR 100,000 a night.
Many in the group went for private visits and were not seen remotely close to the annals of the …
My article is in solidarity with the on-going peoples uprising in Myanmar (Burma), led by the Buddhist clergy. In their hundreds of thousands, they have marched across the country and in the capitol Rangoon, to demonstrate against the brutal military junta that denies them democratic governance and basic human freedoms.
I examine the history of the democratic struggle in Myanmar and begin my article with a statement by Aung San Suu Kyi speaking at the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing 1995. I note that her house arrest is a damning indicator of the junta’s intolerance of democracy. As another author on Groundviews notes:
Seventeen years since elections, the elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who has since been …
My article deals with the decrepit condition of the medical profession in Sri Lanka today. Notwithstanding the dedication of some in the profession, the overwhelming perception is that the profession is reaked in corruption and malpractice. I include in my article several anecdotes I heard recently regarding the levels of corruption amongst doctors. There are strong rumours that those who have stood up against the corruption have been killed.
I ask what can be done in this situation to address this growth of corrupt practices. Please read my article in full, in Sinhala, here or download it as a PDF here.
My article රà·à¶´à·à·à·à·à¶±à¶º, රනà·à¶½à· à·à· ජනමà·à¶°à·âය (Rupavahini, Ranil and the media) brings to light the decrepit nature of State media through a recent personal encounter.
Promised that my response to Rupavahini on a recent statement made by Ranil Wickremesinghe criticizing three key Editors of newspapers, I was deeply saddened to note that the broadcast censored what I had to say about the deterioration of media freedom and the severe intimidation many journalists have to face. I also noted that the Chairperson of the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association, Sanath Balasooriya, also had his statement to Rupavahini severely censored.
By attempting to teach Ranil a lesson or two in media ethics, what was evident is that Rupavahini itself is in dire …
The 14th of August was an eventful day. According to the Sinhala media, the Police “discovered” claymores and explosives at the Ideal Lodge in Wellawatte on this day. As was discovered later, Ideal Lodge is also where 7 of the petitioners in the Supreme Court case against the unlawful and reprehensible eviction of Tamils from Colombo by the Chief of Police and this government reside.
Several interesting aspects of the Sinhala media coverage of this incident are evident to the keen reader. As noted in my article in detail through direct quotes from headlines, the reporting was overwhelming sensational. Four leading Sinhala dailies stated that the LTTE was responsible for the explosives that were “discovered” without quoting a single source. What …
Copyright: The Economist
Recently our Chief Justice averred that one does not need intelligence to get into Parliament.
I fully agree.
But I have a further point to make to the Chief Justice.
Read it on Vikalpa.
âWe give you something that is very traditional and something that at the same time is not. This is discipline. You canât do this without thinkingâ
Chitrasena, quoted in Bandula Jawayawardhanaâs essay âThe Meaning of Chitrasenaâ published in NÅtya PÅ«jÄ: A Tribute to Chitrasena 50 years in the dance
To witness first and then attempt to write about a production by the Chitrasena Kalayathanaya is a humbling and daunting experience. It is humbling because the writer soon realises the inadequacy of verbal and written expression to capture the exhilaration of dance performed with a vigour and technical precision not often found with such effortless abundance elsewhere. It is daunting because one attempts to capture a movement so mellifluous, …
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