Sri Lanka’s diplomatic triumph at CHOGM

Cabinet paper submitted by External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris :

The clear division of the Commonwealth as demonstrated by the support Sri Lanka received, I believe, led to the Canadian Prime Minister assuring the President, that the issue will not be taken up by them for discussion at the Heads of Government/State Level meetings. The Canadian Foreign Minister alluded to the same with me subsequently,

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112th birth anniversary fell on November 3:

Prof Gunapala Malalasekera - ‘his habit of giving never depleted us’

Fond recollections of my father:

Fathers are very different to mothers. There is some thing inherently special about them, the myth of a father as patriarch, apparently invulnerable and in control, is one of our most powerful beliefs. Forty years after his death, I remember my father as totally special. The academician and philosopher admired by many in the world around him,

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Further adventures of LTTE propagandists

I seem to have struck a raw nerve in making public my account of what Siobhain McDonagh's researcher was up to, in publishing false stories and possibly making up false videos too. He finally got in touch with me again, not to send me the clips he had promised of attacks on hospitals,

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