tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116924302011-10-11T03:59:47.915-07:00Chandarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17234654844903205724noreply@blogger.comBlogger791100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11692430.post-84712115967662508502010-03-01T05:48:00.000-08:002010-03-01T05:58:46.146-08:00

I was checking news before starting work.Came across this.http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/03/01/100301fa_fact_macfarquhar?currentPage=allArticle was long .Then I saw this passage , and stopped for a minute.Krugman explained that he’d become an economist because of science fiction. When he was a boy, he’d read Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation” trilogy and become obsessed with the central

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Judging by postal votes so far ,Looks like Mahinda Rajapakse will win this with 60% of the vote.IF it happens ,Sarath Fonseka is the real victim.From the sidelines this is what I can assume .Political Refugees Ranil,Mangala & JVP knew that they do not even have a shot at contesting the election .They knew SFs ego can be stroked get him to contest.He was eager to shine in the glory of newly

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It looks like super patriotic daddy's boy does not have the balls to call Gen.Sarath Fenseka by his name.May be daddy can not get the Harvard man-child out of a pickle if something goes wrong .This piece (http://www.dailynews.lk/2009/12/22/fea02.asp)does not look like satire and using the term "superman" throughout the column does make any sense(Everybody knows that the highest journalistic

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test

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Never knew unicorns existed but why do they have to retire to grow a pair?

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Glad to be the subject of the buddhist emperor who has all the time in the world to attend Thunmase Danes ,Fuenrals,weddings and kotahalu maguls but can not take his friend's phone call since he is in the "shrine toom" .

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Who is Malinda Seneviratne?Ivap asks me who this Malinda Seneviratne guy is.The best answer is .this.In this video Fareed Sakaria interviews a smooth talking Tehran university professor who quotes from "Lord of the rings".The guy is a conservative Ahmajinda supporter who claims to have faught in Iran-Irag war.Like Fareed points out he is not an anomaly .We have seen his counterparts in old Soviet

Chandarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17234654844903205724noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11692430.post-37923987926310528692009-07-31T05:55:00.000-07:002009-07-31T05:58:12.468-07:00

Nandana Gunatillake might have a really small penis.http://www.lankaenews.com/Sinhala/news.php?id=9793

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I do agree "The Wire" is the greatest TV show ever and Arundhati is really hot (I saw her speak at British Council ,colombo .Couldn't remember what she talked about but can still remember thinking about boinking her)http://blacklightarrow.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/out-in-the-wilderness-dayan-jayatilleka-on-pleading-the-13th-being-a-hippy-and-getting-sacked-by-boggles/

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Yesterday's NYT carried this article by Somini(http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/world/asia/20lanka.html?scp=4&sq=sri%20lanka&st=cse).It is apparent that some section of the Western Media is trying to make Mahinda Rajapakse a Robert Migabe or a Kayibanda.I'm not a fan of Mahinda Chinthana and have doubts about the post conflict agenda he has.Specially worried about the racist elements around

Chandarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17234654844903205724noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11692430.post-3640188986971480012009-05-14T06:03:00.000-07:002009-05-14T06:26:33.589-07:00

I saw the photos at http://www.opusa.org/ .Sri Lankans have seen a lot of in past 60 years.One war ,two rebelllions, several riots and a Tsunami.Looking at the picture ,tell me it does not break your heart.As a brother or a sister it could have been you .As a mother or a father it could have been your kids.It could have been your neighbor's kids.Tamil diaspora(most of them ) is not sending any

Chandarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17234654844903205724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11692430.post-64266077943172763442009-05-05T12:48:00.000-07:002009-05-05T12:49:45.060-07:00

http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/2009/05/freedom-aint-another-word-for-nothing-left-to-lose/

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I have been obsessed with Jathika Chinthana Pravahaya for a while.They are doing something even Tom Tomorrow couldn't do.I'm still baffled though.Knowing the history and back ground of these people ,it could be the real deal!Of course there are obvious post that stand out as parody(amuda stuff etc...) but there is a handful that walks the fine line so professionally it is a treat to read.:)

Chandarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17234654844903205724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11692430.post-14891284051999059082009-01-07T08:30:00.000-08:002009-01-07T08:33:53.408-08:00

This was in 3/2007.Accidently bumped into the article.He always had the balls to say and fight for what he believed in.http://www.dailynews.lk/2007/03/26/fea03.aspThe revolutionary turned public intellectualA second-generation of the Sri Lankan intelligentsia, very little is known about Political Analyst and Colombo University Senior Lecturer, Dayan Jayatilleka. Back in Sri Lanka having just

Chandarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17234654844903205724noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11692430.post-37855611865977501712008-04-23T05:58:00.000-07:002008-04-23T08:00:33.048-07:00

I feel your pain,Wimal.I was there during the time and I'm just several years younger than you brother(Look I'm not use Machang,Comrade ,Sahodraya , Mahaththaya or even Ayya to address you!I know you guys do not want outsiders from party to call you comrade.Bro is easier and fun to use.).I opened the newspaper this morning and this is the crap I get,bro!I'm upto my neck with work and family bro .

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WTF?........http://http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200802191637.htmColombo (PTI): An animal rights group has urged LTTE supremo Prabhakaran tospare animals during armed attacks, following a grenade explosion at a zoo nearhere.Suspected LTTE militants had set-off a grenade near a birds' enclosureat Dehiwala zoo on February 3 in which seven people, including two children,were injured."In

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Tigers have demeaned themselves!I read DBSJ to get a perspective from a moderate Tamil jounalist who has access to information other sri lankan jounalists can only dream of.Sometimes his writing gives away his true sympathasies but I can live with that.I think this post is a great example of his feelings and this paragraph takes the cake.If the LTTE deal was only to extract political or military

Chandarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17234654844903205724noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11692430.post-6959063105182727442007-06-20T08:51:00.000-07:002007-06-20T10:33:34.030-07:00

I can barely find time to check news and read a couple of blogs but I got to write this down.Two of the bloggers wrote about the same issue or rather one answered the other one.I don't know whether Indi reads Glenn but I think he should.I happened to be browsing through kottu and came across this diatribe by Indi about the Rajapakse clan.Then saw this post By Glenn Greenwald ,I guess with minor

Chandarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17234654844903205724noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11692430.post-47255708913778895562007-05-08T10:21:00.000-07:002007-05-08T10:23:33.802-07:00

http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2007/05/08/alistair_horne/Horne nodded. "Yes, that's very true. If terrorism is effective, you become a freedom fighter. As Talleyrand said, 'Treason is a matter of dates.'"

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My post about child soldiers yesterday was partially out of frustration with BBC for their reporting style of Sri Lankan civil war.I'm Sinhalese who believe that Tamil minority have been wronged in the past and the way out is only through negotiations.I firmly believe that Tigers are terrosists and should be defeated but we have take into consideration the ground realities.I witnessed how the

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The leading news in BBC website has been a UN report on Sri Lanka (1 hrs+)."But Allan Rock, a special adviser to the UN representative for children and armed conflict, said government forces had forcibly rounded up young Tamil children to fight with Col Karuna's group."We encountered both direct and indirect evidence of... complicity and participation," he said of the government security

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Kumar Sangakkara is writing a column at CricInfo. He is off to a great start touching the very essence of Sri Lankan experience, 'Attitude'. The column is about the recent success of the team and the attitude change that caused it.I quote ..."One of the huge conundrums with Sri Lanka's cricket has traditionally been the absence of the question "why?" We are generally spoon-fed from an early age.

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The most common myth about LTTE run de-facto state is how it is run and funded.Most assume that Sri Lanka has cut off the LTTE controlled area and it is all out war against each other like two separate countries.commentor context wanted me to provide the proof that government infrastructure is functioning inside Tiger controlled areas and the civil servants report both to LTTE and GOSL .In fact

Chandarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17234654844903205724noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11692430.post-1155904960085503442006-08-18T05:36:00.000-07:002006-08-18T05:49:11.793-07:00

The link.

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World language map

Chandarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17234654844903205724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11692430.post-1148419569681662862006-05-23T14:21:00.000-07:002006-05-23T14:26:09.700-07:00

The biggest news ever! (From America's finest news source) .

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Right after reading this article about an op-ed piece by Ted Koppel ,I came across this.The story says...American forces in Iraq have recruited former as well as serving military officers from many countries. The Sri Lankans thus recruited receive a monthly salary ranging from 300,000 to 500.000 rupees according to their ranks and are also entitled for a life insurance of 50 million rupees.

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Looks like Vimukthi Jayasundera's The Forsaken Land will be coming to town,soon.NYT movie critic Manohla Dargis is looking forward to seeing it.Update 1:Please check the mutlimedia presentation.There are two critics (A.O.Scott and Manohla Dargis) commenting on their picks for the summer.It is in Manohla Dragis commentary with a picture of Vimukthi.About the actual release dates ,I couldn't find

Chandarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17234654844903205724noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11692430.post-1146256457350426642006-04-28T12:28:00.000-07:002006-05-11T10:44:13.306-07:00

I am not a fan of Asoka Handagama.I have seen two of his stage dramas ,"Hena" and "Magatha".Both were propaganda pieces for JVP in late 80's ,if my memory serves me right .Then I have seen "Dunhinda Addara " tele-drama which basically was unwatchable but had to tolerate some episodes since there was only one TV at home.After dramas and tele-dramas(!) Handagama decided to conquer cinema !I

Chandarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17234654844903205724noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11692430.post-1146169412937852412006-04-27T12:28:00.000-07:002006-04-27T14:06:04.520-07:00

Blogger sittingnut's analysis of the Trincomalee riots report raises some valid questions .As a member of Sri Lankan civil society , I would like Center for Policy Alternatives to clear things up.I would also like to know more about the procedures for press releases and method of including signatories names in press releases in light of the comment made by Dr.Laksiri Fernando in the community

Chandarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17234654844903205724noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11692430.post-1141662884068562082006-03-06T07:57:00.000-08:002006-03-06T14:03:31.456-08:00

This blog has been inactive for some time and I thought of blegging for something in this post.If you have a little bit of free time and have some reasonable awareness of Sri Lankan politics,culture and arts please consider updating Wikipedia .When Ivap asked me about Jaathika Chinthanaya ,I guessed there might be a short history I can point to on the web.Bad guess!I checked Wikipedia and

Chandarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17234654844903205724noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11692430.post-1137617090056975582006-01-18T12:13:00.000-08:002006-01-18T14:03:41.346-08:00

Ivap has a post on Trincomalee student murders.Just have to add that it's damn time that criminals among security forces be brought to justice.So many incidents (88-90,Bindunewewa ,Krishanthi Kumaraswamy and numerous atrocities in North and South) and nobody has been punished for any of the crimes.Anybody remember (or heard about )Premawathie Manamperi incident during 1971 insurgency ,and how the

Chandarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17234654844903205724noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11692430.post-1137084485987029452006-01-12T08:41:00.000-08:002006-01-12T09:39:50.306-08:00

I ain't no constitoosion scholar.We had both 1972 and 1978 constitutions at home when I was a kid.I never bothered reading them ,and it bored me to death when I tried.On the other hand I actively seeked out the US constitution recently.I just had to compare both preambles to see the superiority of a document that was drafted more than 200 hundred years ago(ammended 27 times) to a one that is only

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Kudos to Sittingnut for the great post on the conduct of Sri Lankan armed forces and police.Although I'm little bit pressed for time these days ,This great news seems hard to let go ."Insisting that God "certainly needs to be involved" in the Supreme Court confirmation process, three Christian ministers today blessed the doors of the hearing room where Senate Judiciary Committee members will

Chandarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17234654844903205724noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11692430.post-1135875134798912422005-12-29T08:33:00.000-08:002005-12-29T11:23:20.526-08:00

After the brutal murder of MP Joseph Pararajasinham the finger pointing still continues. UTHR(J) covers it in the latest report.There are two mysterious figures in the obviously photo shopped picture on Tamil Net.Tamilnet has tonnes of pictures taken in killinochchi which shows many LTTE cadres .This is the first one I have seen (taken at a function like this) which is photo-shopped.Are these

Chandarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17234654844903205724noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11692430.post-1135703323411493902005-12-27T08:44:00.000-08:002005-12-27T09:25:24.243-08:00

I will try to stick to my own policy of not blogging about personal stuff but it is hard not to think about what happened a year ago.Coming home at 2.30 a.m in the morning and to be awaken at 7.00 a.m to phone calls.Checking the CNN and watching my home town washed away .Then trying frantically to contact the family.There is no need to remind a Sinhala Buddhist (specially a person who lived

Chandarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17234654844903205724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11692430.post-1133822783671456062005-12-05T14:15:00.000-08:002005-12-05T14:50:57.086-08:00

There is an interesting story about President Chavez's foreign policy advisor via Sepia Mutiny but what's really intersting ( to me) is the NYT article series on India .Not for the way every article on India is written about but for the fact that they have already connected Delhi ,Calcutta,Chennai,Bangalore and Bombay !Now back to beating one of my favourite hobby horses.How freaking hard it is

Chandarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17234654844903205724noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11692430.post-1132285463538724172005-11-23T10:07:00.000-08:002005-11-23T09:05:43.186-08:00

It's a Science.Wankery and WingnutteryWhat does the photo have to do with it?Nothing.Just found it while browsing.Also ,our own Victor Hettigoda made an appearance in "The Daily Show".

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When this post comes out, most of the Sri Lankans have voted .Everybody says it is the "Most important election ever" .period.So were the ones in 1931 ,1947,1952 ,1956 ,1960(2),1965,1970 ,1977 ,1982 and 1988/89!( the list could go on).Everyone of them marked a turning point in our history .Your grandma and my grandpa dutifully went to the polling booth and did the best thing they could do, given

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One anonymous commenter left a note saying "puka thami" for one of my blog entries.I respect his freedom of expression .I guess it is his way of saying my post is bullshit.Anyway I have to point out that the correct ,and extreme way of saying it is "paka thamai".There was a book out recently called "on bullshit".I think NPR couldn't say the title on-air when they reviewed it!There are lot of

Chandarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17234654844903205724noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11692430.post-1131023867809626002005-11-03T05:02:00.000-08:002005-11-03T05:17:47.826-08:00

What the fuck is happening in Pakistan?Does anybody care?Where was the big ho ha like after the tsunami or Katrna?I heard Jan Egland ,the guy who called western countries stingy and got the ball rolling after tsunami ,talking about Pakistan yesterday.He says 550 mil is needed and only got 135 in pledges!73000 dead and hundreds of thousands approaching deadly winter without proper shelter.He is

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Click on the link for a great paper on island mentality .It starts with the quote"An Island ,If it is big enough ,is no better than a continent.It has to be really quite small before it feels like an islandD.H. Lawarence ,The Man Who Loved Islands"I wrote in a prevoius post that we should join india as a solution to the ethnic problem.Judging by the responses obvoiusly I have not made the case

Chandarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17234654844903205724noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11692430.post-1128955630724225112005-10-10T06:53:00.000-07:002005-10-24T13:43:47.436-07:00

It was not my intention to make this the obituary page of Daily News or the disaster response main page.I guess it is human nature react to bad news .I always wanted to write a post about Simon.The topic ,why most of Simon's works cannot be translated without losing the original value.The obstacles are,I don't have any of his books with me at the moment,I'm no literary critic and most of all I

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Ivap and Sittingnut wanted to know what I think about the blogger peace plan .I wanted to be safe in my world thinking about how the TV viewing habits of children in 80's could effect the O/L English results in 90's or How similar the Sri Lankan and US history looks as countries built by immigrants, why building the proposed highways will do more to peace in Sri Lanka than SLMM. Add to that list

Chandarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17234654844903205724noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11692430.post-1128352446363604172005-10-03T07:39:00.000-07:002005-10-03T10:09:28.140-07:00

The case for joining India(as a solution to the Sri Lankan ethnic problem)India was a state of mind for the outsiders.India was never a political reality until British decided it is high time the world have a mediocre cricket team that would consistently loose to teams from smaller countries to prove that size really doesn't matter after all.Only time India became almost a political reality was

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This is freaking brilliant !

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It seems like president is sending 25,000USD and asking SL doctors in US to help. NYTalso noticed"Aid was being promised, too, from overseas. Australia said it was giving $7.6 million to the American Red Cross and sending a team of 20 disaster experts to the United States. Financial aid was also scheduled to come from Japan, Sri Lanka and a handful of other countries."

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Just after the Tsunami, Sri Lankan ambassador to US ,Devinda Subasinghe was on C-SPAN .(He did a great job in the US media after tsunami).One of the questions he got from a caller was "What did you do to help when Florida was hit by hurricanes this year?". I think he mentioned that as a resident of Florida for a long time, he knows it first hand but the let the stupid part of the question slip.It

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After 1915 Sinhala - Muslim riots,up and coming Sinhala national leadership was in jail .It was Sir Ponnambalam Ramanathan who led the fight to get them released.It is said that on his return from London after arguing the case ,he was greeted by a parade in which Sinhala people carried him in a decorated cart ,young men dragging the carriage instead of horses.He ran for the seat of educated

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Lakshman KadirgamarOriginally uploaded by chandare. Dear Sir, May you attain the supreme bliss of Nibbana!

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On the topic of Sri Lanka's execllent road network,The latest situtaion of Southern highway (via Lanka Academic ) from The Chartered Institute of Building

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Sri Lanka Planned HighwaysOriginally uploaded by chandare. Dear Madam President/Dear Highways Minister,I found this article(written in 2001) in the government website 3 years ago and couldn't wait until 2005!It says ,"Sri Lanka will have four major expressways along with eight flyovers (PDF) by the year 2005. A spokesman for the Ministry of Highways said that this was part of a massive plan by

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Not owning a vehicle, I used to depend antirely on the public transportation system of Sri Lanka.Visiting Sri Lanka after sometime ,I can only wonder at how things have become crazier .I thought it couldn't become worse but our guys can always top that kind of expectations .Everybody seems to be pissed off about the situation but nobody seems to be doing anything about it.There was one exception

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I was away from my blog for a long time.Was in Sri Lanka during the period ,too!Have to start with a positive note after all .As Indi has blogged and a lot of guys commented ,the Brass Monkey Band Rocks!I bought the CD and I still have it in my car after two weeks of drive time listening.(As soon as I heard the CD, I just browsed through comments in Indi's post and found that a guy called

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The IslandOriginally uploaded by chandare. Who wrote this caption?(It says"With screwdriver ,Clinton shows what he 's good at".Feb 22nd. 2005 The Island)This weekend President Bill Clinton will be arriving in Sri Lanka for Tsunami related aid work.This is his second visit. Hope it is not the last.During his presidency US saw the biggest economic boom in history.His domestic and foriegn policies

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I know this is trivial compared to what is happening in Sri Lanka.Sometimes you gotta enjoy small things in life."Everybody Loves Raymond" ends today.Here is what the Salon critic Heather Havrilesky has to say about it.--------------------------Nobody I know will be mourning the passing of "Everybody Loves Raymond" since, for years, everybody I've talked to thinks that "Everybody Loves Raymond"

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During the run upto kottu Sinhala font ,I posted a link to an article in "Lakbima" in one of the comments.Lohan has commented on the whole issue in his blog.The article says that since the language of Sinhala news has been degraded ,the minister of cultural affairs is planning on controlling the language used by media,starting with a booklet on how to spell.I haven't listened to Sinhala TV/Radio

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mm hitoegn hiTiey; meg; bIelg; Eek; pud;glik etrturA liyn;en; ná kiylo.nmut; edsAmIbr; 26 epodu Át;;dAkImk;.mm rApvohiniey; hAtAp;m dhs; gnnk; Eho meg; gmI plot muhudT gsoegn yn hATi bloegn hiTya.emonvd krn;en; ,kvurAt; pris;smin; ín;nvld kiylo bln;n ívryk; nAti durktn ÁAmtUmI.dvs; 4 kT 5kT ps;es tvt; bln;n bAri niso rápvohiniy vhlo dolo epotk; ÁtT gt;to. epot sumon gnnovk; pAt;tkT dolo tibuIb Sn

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This is not a book review!Here is a review Book on amazonI thought of not writing anything personal in my blog.Dec 26 is a shared expreriance .I guess I can break my own rule once in a while and write about it since it sets up the thing I'm going to write.After almost a week of watching TV,endless phone calls and trying to figure out how to help, I couldn't watch anymore TV .All the major

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I checked the most e-mailed article in New York times today.That's what I usually do when I miss a Sunday Edition.There was an article about Sri Lanka in the top ten.It was not about Tsunami.New York Times is probably the most influential paper when it comes to journalism.On-line edition is widely read and it's free.It couldn't be all Sri Lankans who has been e-mailing the article to each other ,

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mm nAvtt; eha;Diey; pn;tiey;.siGeln; biela;g; liyn;n út;sah krn viT tmyi etern;en ÁpiT Ek eha;Diyk; nAtibv.ekTin;m siGeln; siGl liyn;en; ekaehamd?;cn;der

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Ayubowan.Mage nama Chandare.Eka mage aththa nama nemei.Aarudha namakin liwima angata gunai kiyala mata hithuna.Mama paawichchi karanna yanne Sinhala basawe katawachana viyakaranaya.Blog ekak kiyanne hithe nidhahasen karana pauwdgalika wadak nisa mata ehema karana eka lazyei.Sinhala yathuruliyanaya(type karana eka) hari amaru wadak. Yathurupuwaruwe akuru hoyana eka muka poottu wena wedak!Mehema

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A lot of things are happening.1.D Sivaram was killed 2.Central Bank is going to release 2004 annual report saying Sri Lanka reached per capita GDP of 1000 USD in 2004 (before Tsunami) which makes Sri Lanka a middle income country.3.Deadly bus accident in Allawwa I'm just going to focus on No. 3.I know I will take lot of heat from my dad and uncles( if they know I'm writing this )but

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William F Buckley Jr. is the founder of National Review .He is the intellectuall grand pa of all conservative right wing public figures who control the public discourse in US right now.In this article he looks at one aspect that is wrong with his own side .i.e. Capitalism.WFB on CapitalismI cannot think of Nalin De Silva ,Champika Ranawaka,Wickramabahu Karunaratne ,Gunadasa Amarasekera ,all

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This is like a postscript to the theory no1 An article on NYT explains how Watching TV makes you smarter (registration for site is free.if you don't wanna register use bugmenot.com for a username/password.)

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I woke up today and realised the world has turned upside down .Check this out JVP-USA lovefest . I was sitting on my theory number 2 (theory 2 ) for too long! I have to get this out before comrade Somawansa,comrade Wirawansa or comrade Tilvin beat me to it.Of course Sri Lanka resembles ethnic composition of US loosely(White 70% Black 13% Latino 13%) .Some similarities doesn't end there ,it runs

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Wow.Today is not April 1 st. ,is it?JVP-USA Love-festI think I'm living in bizzaro-world.Up is down,north is south,good is bad,black is white and JVP is UNP!Loved this quote"We believe in our efforts to rebuild and regain our multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-religious country, the United States will follow in the same spirit that after WW II, it helped replace fascist dictatorships by vibrant

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If you believed all the B.S. they teach you in school(specially social studies/History/Sinhala classes) Sri Lanka is a blessed country.No Natural disasters.Beautiful.Lot's of natural resources.Great location.Everybody wants to be here.If you drop a twig anywhere,it will hold root ,thrive and bear fruit!.My ass!.Tsunami busted the myth on the top of the list.Most of the people who are talking

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In (the about page) of kottu it is mentioned as a Sri Lankan food.It is probably not.Not that there is anything wrong with it!It has become Sri Lankan by default with the explosion of fast food industry in Sri Lanka.A small number of people who patronized the "Muslim Hotels" ate kottu before 80's.There were only a handful of "hotels" which offered kottu.If some food critic could dig up the

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Looks like indi has added me to the blog roll in kottu .I don't know whether chandare is qualified as a blog.Although it is my personal notepad ,I better keep my promise of turning out stupid ideas since people are reading (yeah, all 3 of them!).My next idea is explaining why "(Sri Lanka)*100size+(1000 to 2000)years =(almost) USA" .I might have to touch some subjects which most of the Sri Lankans

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This is not my idea .It has been tossed around for a quite long time.Why don't they show Sri Lankan parlimentary proceedings on TV?Everybody is in favour of it except parliment members it seems.I just saw RNC chairman being heckled in Howard University in C-SPAN(Live! no kidding).He was speaking about why blacks should support Republican party.My suggestions...........A new channel supported by

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My family is lower middle class(Sri Lankan sense).Nobody spoke English at home.I was 9 when they had TV outside Colombo.The lower middle class (clerks,teachers,policemen,small businessmen) could somehow afford a TV set in 80's.Our Generation grew up watching TV all night and discussing them at school.Most of the shows were in English and they didn't have subtitles.i.e.I was listening to English 2

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When I saw the article by STEPHEN J. DUBNER on Steven D. Levitt I was stunned.There could be simple answers for the seeming unexplainable complex human behaviour?I think I have a case with the pass rate of GCL O/L English .When you look at the case It looks like there will be several obvious explanations.1.The exam became tougher gradually from 1992-1998.Probably not . I happened to know lot of

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The other thing my theory is based on was an article(or 2) in The Island(http://www.island.lk) I read ,when it was free.Now you have to pay to access the archive .It will be easier to get the data from Education ministry in Sri Lanka anyway.The article(s) was about how the pass rate in English as a second language declined from early 90's(1992-93?) to late 90's(1997-1998?) .As I remember it was a

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In 2003 I read a great article in NYT by STEPHEN J. DUBNER on Steven D. Levitt.stephenjdubner.comJust in case it vanishes from the web I'm linking the article in several other places.lair.xent.comphoenix.liu.eduI'm posting the article below and will be explaining later how this is tied to the English education in Sri Lanka--------------------------------------------------------August 3, 2003The

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A really stinking subject!Sri Lanka Education system!Sri Lankan mini(rather micro,nano) blogosphere is buzzing about the subject.http://morquendi.blogspot.com/ ,http://www.mahangu.org/ and http://indi.ca/2005/03/educate-sri-lanka/ discussing the" privatization" issues.Same goes to Sri Lankan MSM I can access freely .(Sorry, Upali newspawers I will not pay a subscription to read your garbage.).

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Why not?Seriously, I don't like to layout my boring life in some kinda of gigantic archive where nobody will lookup.What I will want to do is to keep track of crazy/stupid ideas I might get from time to time in an easily accessible way .May be if they happened to be pointed out by somebody else I can say "du'h, I told you so" and point out the date.For instance I think I know why so many students

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This is my notepad to keep track of brilliant ideas I get ! ;-))

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