Teachers issue seem to have gone to UN ?

What are his duties? To Sinhalise N&E ???

It took nearly three years to come out with this figure – 8000 killed ( http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/13012447/8-000-killed-in-last-year-of-sri-lanka-war-census/ ). Chnage of mind from “zero casuality”

Dear Hela,

I am sure Dayan appreciates your hand holding and your voluntary offer to surrogate now that he finds himself either shy or lost for words, or perhaps both. And, additionally he gets to count one more on his side of the balance sheet of Public Opinion. This show of support would no doubt help him regain some of the rapidly diminishing self-confidence that saw him hitching his wagon rather desperately to Tamara’s back.

In any case, after being the roaring lion denigrating some as backbone-deficient for not being forthright in revealing their names, I wonder why he suddenly became a morbid invertebrate, unable to even name those whom he wants to vilify, and keep readers like me guessing.

While on that subject, I see that you use a cute, though seemingly ambivalent pseudonym. To compensate for my ignorance, I just Googled and realized you could be either “the Asgardian goddess of death” as in Marvel Comics, or, at the other extreme, be a “widely used continuous, immortal cell line for virology.”

Now, based on your free-will choice to use pseudonym, Dayan, as well as another organism, namely Pandukabaya de Silva, seem to think you are a “coward” and that you “do not have any strength of conviction” and so should not be taken seriously, if not abhorred summarily for that. Would you care to express how you feel about that profound wisdom of these wise men?

Hela, since you at your free will chose to stand surrogate for Dayan, I felt comfortable taking the liberty to ask these questions from you directly – no offence intended.

Mr Kusal Perera is the classic nay sayer and arm chair critic. He has always been in opposition and forever will be. He has never had an idea of his own but will criticize all others. He has never done anything or achieved anything of his own but will criticize all others who do.

people like him do have a role in society, in any society, but we must not put any unnecessary weight to their thoughts.

Dayan’s comments are extremely valid. The inability of the psuedo intellectuals to distingush between national sovereignity & popular sovereignity v the establishment made them irrelevant in the past and judging by their utterences will continue to make them irrelevant in the future too.

Yes, there are lot more issues with regard to economic management, waste, corruption, cronysm etc with the existing dispensation. Active opposition & struggle against such issues are certainly valid (though I cannot find any saint among the opposition who were not guilty of such practices during their hey days). However, the silence of the so called intellectuals writing in these blogs against the most evident threat to national sovereignity, the basic foundation of this nation from vested global interests shows a clear link in an attempt on regime change by other means while being trying to be opportunistic in mass agitations. It also points to the possibility that many of these writers being in the payroll of certain global vested interests.

The writer of the article clearly tries to hoodwink the readers by trying to belittle the massively negative international economic situation on small countries such as SL. It is no secret that even when the oil prices went up to $140 a barrel, govt continued to subsidies the local economic sectors at a great cost to the national budget. Protests have to be expected when such subsidies are reduced which even Harsha De Silva’s economic team in the UNP cannot sustain. A fair critique must need to take all such variables in to perspective if it not to be vindictive.

Lastly, as pointed out by another commentator, can the writer point to an alternate political/economic programme that is visible among the opposition that would address the issues noted by me at the beginning? or does he favour anarchy (in trying to punish his hated)? Can he tell us what his desired programme is?

An important and timely article that reads the ground situation and emerging scenario with accuracy and foresight. I have wriiten along the same lines in my artilce ” Emerging Scenarios in the previous Sunday Leader,and also Colombo Telegraph and my next article appearing tomorow titled ” Towards a Parliament of the Steets”

Surendra.