tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62245992023-05-13T15:04:25.748+05:30Panhindha is an anciant writing instrument used in Sri Lanka. This is the weblog of a Sri Lankan.panhindhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661815375532518900noreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6224599.post-1146027878670346212006-04-26T09:50:00.000+05:302006-04-26T10:34:38.683+05:30

Yesterday LTTE has tried to assassinate the Army commander. This is not new to Sri Lanka. There is no doubt that this is a barbaric act done by the murderous LTTE. But if we look at the circumstances under which this has taken place, the only words I can think of to describe this are hilarious, stupid and incompetent. First, the Army commander was attacked inside the highly guarded army

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Sri Lankan government changed the clock from GMT + 6 to GMT + 5:30. I am not going to say anything about it. The above picture tells it all. (For those who don't know what Angoda is, it is a town in Sri Lanka which is famous for its mental hospital.)

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This is the Honorable President of Sri Lanka who was voted in by more than 3.8 million people. This is one of the pictures which was published in Sunday Leader news paper. He is supposed to have done this act during his visit to India. Even before this picture and the article was published, Mr. Rajapakse, the honorable President had called the editor of the news paper and, let me put it this way

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A couple of years ago, when the UNP was in power (but the Presidency was with the UPFA), the UPFA launched its election campaign against the UNP with the slogan “Kauda meevata vagakiyanne?” which means who is going to be responsible for this? or something like who would pay for this? Since the President had the control of the state media (TV and radio) every 15 minutes they blasted our eyes and

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I quote the following text because most of the so called Buddhists don't even know about this.Kalama SuttaDo not believe in anything (simply) because you have heard it.Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.Do not believe in anything because it is spoken and rumoured by many.Do not believe in anything (simply) because it is found written in your

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Recently a friend of mine asked me why I write my blog and why is it about politics. The reason is the only thing Sri Lankans are really good at, that is, the only field Sri Lankans can be considered to be equal if not better than the best in the world is doing political blunders. We are really good at messing things up. So what subject is better or more interesting than world class political

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The government is carrying out search operations in Colombo and its suburbs these days. The man in charge is said to be former policeman Mr. Kotakadeniya. He is the adviser to the defense ministry about Police affairs or some thing. This guy is a member of the racist political party JHU. So I can assume that he is a racist himself. Now the TNA or Tamil National Alliance members of parliament are

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These days, most of the government schools wouldn't let mothers of school children to come inside the school premises unless they are wearing sarees (Kandyan or Indian version). The reason given is that certain dresses worn by mothers are provocative so it disturbs the students. (especially boys.) But does this mean that all women's clothes except sarees are provocative? Also, why does this only

Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6224599.post-1135670884439879892005-12-27T14:06:00.000+06:002005-12-27T14:08:04.450+06:00

Mr. Wimal Weerawanse of JVP poked his head out of the fox hole he had dug for himself last week. The guy who was screaming his head off about the danger of LTTE before the presidential election was nowhere to be seen or heard once the LTTE escalated violence after the election. Now the guy appeared on TV and said that we all should be careful and think about the way the LTTE really want us to

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Mr. Mahinda Rajapakse, our new president and his group of friends (JVP, JHU, etc.) were screaming before the presidential election about amending the ceasefire agreement. Now LTTE has killed more soldiers within one month after Mr. Rajapakse becoming president than the four previous years after the ceasefire agreement. Then the day before yesterday, LTTE has attacked some navy crafts and abducted

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During the past few year, after Mr. Ranil Wikckramasinghe signed the ceasefire agreement with the LTTE, the JVP, JHU and the right wing SLFP extremists were constantly saying that the country needs an “honorable” peace and not what ever that was there during that time. If the country needed an honorable peace that implies that there was no honorable peace. Either there should have been war or a

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I watched a political discussion on TV. I think that was on TNL last Monday. When I changed to that channel, there was a Buddhist monk (most probably a member of JHU) talking. He was saying that by looking at the history, it was evident that the LTTE eliminated its political opponents during times of ceasefire. He was accusing Mr. Ranil Wickramasinghe of letting the LTTE get an upper hand by

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There is a sinhala saying “ballo maralahari vaedee karagannava” meaning getting the work done even by killing dogs. This means getting something done at any cost even if you have to stoop to an unimaginably low level. (Killing dogs is considered as a degrading act.) Well, a few of our politicians have done that. In fact what they have done is worse than killing dogs. It is paving way to kill

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We had a Presidential Election last month. Some of you my friends who are not Sri Lankans may not know much about it. OK, I'll give a brief explanation.There were two main candidates along with 11 or so clowns. Those two were, then prime minister Mr. Maninda Rajapakse and former prime minister Mr. Ranil Wickramasinghe. Who are these two guys?Mr. Mahinda Rajapakse was the prime minister of the

Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6224599.post-1133771690196171152005-12-05T14:30:00.000+06:002005-12-05T14:34:50.206+06:00

Well, I have simply forgotten my blog because of my studies. During that time, all hell has broken loose in Sri Lanka. So I thought of starting my blog again. But some sites which had my comments, images, etc. have simply vanished. So some articles in my blog do not make much sense. But hold on to your seats. Panhindha is back!

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On CNN today, I saw a reporter interviewing a Buddhist monk of a destroyed temple. The report was said to show the Buddhist explanation for the Tsunami. The monk said that the Tsunami was the nature's way of punishing people for their bad behavior. In other words, the monk meant to say that there is a all mighty power which he referred to as the nature. This is similar to the concept of an all

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There are various organizations trying to help the tsunami victims. One is called the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna Sahana Seva (JVP relief service) which is a part of the JVP political party which is part of the government. Earlier there were allegations that donations made by others were being distributed by the JVP pretending that the aid was from JVP. Now these people are pretending to help the

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Even two weeks after the Tsunami disaster, the bodies of the victims still keep turning up. I saw within 500 m of coast line at least two badly decomposed bodies surfaced from the mud after two weeks.

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The Tsunami that hit Sri Lanka on the 26th was the worst disaster recorded in the Sri Lanka's more than 2000 year old history. This is the first clearly recorded sea flooding after the flooding of Sri Lanka in the 1st century BC during the reign of king Kelani Thissa. That also could have been a Tsunami. Another similar but smaller in scale disaster was recorded during the Portuguese rule about

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Last week I heard on the radio that our president has said that Sri Lanka is spending several billion rupees to import milk powder and sugar and similar stuff. She has said that we should produce them instead of importing them so that we could save a lot of money. My god. Does this mean that all this time we had the capability to produce all the sugar and milk powder needed right here but was

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We know spam mail. Now there is scam mail. One of my friends received this mail recently. Dear Sir/Madam Please let me introduce myself to you, My name is Rosa the wife to the late leader of the National Union for The Total Independence of Angola who is now deceased leaving his family just one hope to secure their future. Fortunately or maybe unfortunately funds realized from Diamond

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This week Ravaya news paper carries an article about how some policemen caught the Chief Justice half naked with a young woman in a car. The story goes as how four police men on patrol found a parked car in an isolated spot near the Diyavanna oya (the road that goes near the parliament). When they searched the car found a half naked young woman in the driving seat and a half naked old man in the

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A suicide bomber blew herself up killing herself and four Police personnel when they arrested her and tried to search her at a police station in Colombo last week. The new UPFA government came to power saying that the previous government compromised on security. But bombs didn't go off then. Now the new government is saying that the bomb was brought to Colombo during the time of the previous

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There is an old Sinhala saying that “Kithul gahata giya minihatath kiyanna dheyak thibunalu” which means that “even the man who climbed the Kithul tree had an excuse”. Kithul is a tree somewhat like a Coconut. Like Coconut, Kithul is also used to make Toddy, which is a local alcoholic drink. The toddy tappers will climb up the tree and would crush the Kithul flower and hang a pot under the flower

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The parliament was like the Muppet Show yesterday. The historical reasons behind this were that two Buddhist monk MPs who have got selected to the parliament from the JHU (the monk’s party as it’s called by international media) crossed over to the side of the coalition government of SLFP and JVP. Somehow one monk resigned from his post and when his replacement was about to swear in, the SLFP/JVP

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