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The film Slumdog Millionaire after already having won several international awards has gone on to win no less than eight Oscars. No film, it appears, has ever provoked so sensational an international response as this one. What on earth is all this about? The question arises because on the surface it seems to be no more than an average rags-to-riches …

Muslim presence in the North dates back to eighth century. According to historians forefathers of present Muslims were present in the North of Sri Lanka as far back as the eight century.  Mannar and Jaffna are two places recorded in history. Muslims have been engaged in Trade and other vocation in the Jaffna area. They were settled in number of …

In my article Lasantha and Democracy in the Island of January 21 I argued that the LTTE is loosing the war because it practices dictatorship while the Government is relatively democratic, which fits in with the fact that in the modern era wars are invariably won by the more democratic side. I argued further that the explanation for what looks …

The following speech by Sir. Gerald Kaufman httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGuYjt6CP8 I was brought up as an orthodox Jew and a Zionist. On a shelf in our kitchen, there was a tin box for the Jewish National Fund, into which we put coins to help the pioneers building a Jewish presence in Palestine. I first went to Israel in 1961 and I have …

PRINCE OF PALESTINE WAS DULY ELECTED BY THE PALESTINIANS, PERHAPS IN A BEST ELECTION EVER HELD IN ARAB WORLD. THERE WAS NO VIOLENCE, RIGGING, AND ABSOLUTE TRANSPARENCY. THE END RESULT THEY WERE DECLARED  ” TERRORISTS”. NOW  WE KNOW ANY DEMOCRACY TO SUCCEED IN THE ARAB WORLD IT HAS TO BE MADE IN USISRAEL. George Mitchell is facing a daunting task, …

Senior Sri Lankan journalist Latheef Farook has submitted a document to The Hague based International Court of Justice emphasizing the need to bring to trial all Zionist Jewish leaders involved in war crimes against Palestinians and humanity. The document submitted this week has provided vivid details of the macabre massacres committed by migrant Zionist Jews on innocent Palestinian civilians during …