My Karapincha

I hardly go through my Reading list which appears at the bottom of my dashboard. As the number of blogs I follow falls less than the number of fingers in both hands, without much effort I could track certain stuff posted in those blogs. Interestingly, when I scrolled down on my dashboard today, this particular blog post which carried an interesting title appeared and it was strong enough to catch my eyes and redirect me to the blog site! It was ‘Boondi’, a collective effort of a group of young troublemakers, who eventually holds a different insight in their work. One of the contributors had come across this strange guy who had been standing in the Dehiwala junction on the day the parliament’s inaugural session took place (April 22). This lonely attempt of yet another single Sri Lankan, evidently proves the perception of the countrymen towards its politicians. Ask yourself: What have they done since 1948? So, is there a better way to address them? Read the original article here: h...

We Sri Lankans celebrated yet another New Year! For Sri Lankans, the traditional new year dawns, as 'the sun' makes the move from Meena rasi to mesha rasi, giving fresh thoughts, ideas full of prosperity, to the well being of the society. This year too, having the above ‘prosperity’ part in the back of our minds, we Sri Lankans, all the Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims, Burghers and other national and religious communities were preparing themselves to celebrate ‘the new era’. Those who want to make political advantage, even from a single fart will obviously make this an opportunity to stressfully state, it is because of them, the Sri Lankans this time would celebrate the New Year in a country with no war and no terrorists. The week before the ‘avurudhu’ week, I myself visited several fashion chains to get myself equipped with 'new clothes'. There were thousands of people, who were seeking new clothes, and I found it difficult to pick the designs and colors which I was ex...