Harold Gunatilleka in Sri Lanka
A Call for Experience and Unity in Sri Lanka’s Defining Moment
Sri Lanka finds itself at a pivotal juncture. The country faces the urgent need to recover from the Ditwah disaster and the significant challenge of reversing 20 years of stagnation in productivity. At this critical moment, effective leadership characterised by wisdom, experience, and unity is essential.
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EVERY BRANCH of AID Helps ……. VANNI HOPE is one such branch with may ‘saplings’ of honest outreach ,…. esepecially in the north and east of the island
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Management Committee of the ‘Rebuilding Sri Lanka’ Fund Appointed with Representatives from the Public and Private Sectors
Cabinet approval has been granted to establish the ‘Rebuilding Sri Lanka’ Fund, aimed at rebuilding the country following the severe devastation caused by Cyclone ‘Ditwah’, one of the worst natural disasters in Sri Lanka’s recent history. The Fund is to be established as a statutory fund under the Presidential Secretariat and its Management Committee will comprise representatives from both the public and private sectors.
Dr. Anil Jayantha Fernando, Minister of Labour and Deputy Minister of Finance and Planning, will serve as the Chairman of the Committee, while Mr. G. M. R. D. Aponsu, Senior Additional Secretary to the President, will serve as the Convener.
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Shavindra Fernando; The Vague Poetess ...as paperback
Threshold of Rebellion
At two o’clock in the morning, the bus returning with the cast arrived at the university.
Suddenly the headlights flashed onto a barricade of old barrels across the lane, and three guards stopped the bus.
“Sir, didn’t you hear?”
“No, what happened?”
“Yesterday evening…. Mr. Henry, ….shot dead .”
“No!”
They remained in stunned silence.
”We were in Colombo with the play…we didn’t hear”
Then one of the guards turned around slowly and pointed towards the Senate House, which glowed as if a great fire was beyond it.
“…and then this happened …. at about midnight.”
“What…. happened?”
“Sir,….ten boys and a girl,…..they have been beheaded,… and they are burning on a pyre of tyres.”
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Hiran Hewavisenti in FACEBOOK, #0 November 2025 ……………eoSopsdrnt3t27c39ft1tht9c4729m517ul00gcifl02ihtu7gg17a69949i ·
HORSES FOR COURSES
Sadly, there was no respite for a nation on the brink – not even from an oval in Rawalpindi and a game that has brought cheer to so many millions of Sri Lankans in the now distant past… in the midst of a civil war back in 1996 – and for nearly a decade thereafter when Sri Lankan cricket’s purple patch saw it win two World Cups and feature in multiple finals of major tournaments.
It wasn’t to be in Rawalpindi last night; it hasn’t been for nearly a decade.
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Aubrey Joachim … in an article entitled “Sri Lanka’s second tsunami moment. This time it came from the skies.” ..
Almost 21 years after the devastation of the 2004 Asian tsunami that wreaked havoc across much of Asia, most of the same areas have once again been subjected to the adverse forces of nature. Ove the last week or more, torrential rains have fallen across Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, Southern India and Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has in addition been hit by a violent cyclone – Ditwah.
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Rajiva Wijesinha, in a Facebook Item entitled “A New Life 44 …
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Review in The ISLAND, 30 November 2025, entitled “Nawaz and Afridi blow Sri Lanka away to seal tri-series for Pakistan”
Pakistan thundered to victory in the final of the tri-series, their attack blazing through the last nine Sri Lanka wickets for 30 runs, before their batters carried them without major drama to a target of 115. The victory came in the 19th over.
Earlier, it had been three-wicket hauls for Shaheen Sha Afridi and Mohammed Nawaz, and two wickets for Abrar Ahmed, that had seen Pakistan produce the definitive passage of the game – the second half of Sri Lanka’s innings.
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It was on the day before he turned 18, in 2019, that I called Indunil. “Here, are you free tomorrow? There’s a place I want to take you.
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thuppahi
