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Lankan Mothers’ Movement supports Trump’s opposition to LGBTQIA++ Woke agenda
The LGBTQIA++ agenda is against treasured Sri Lankan traditions, religions and cultural norms. But it thrust upon people and schools by US funding agencies and the Big Pharma, the Moters ’Movement alleges
The “MGR” mystique as seen on January 17, his birth anniversary
The unique phenomenon of M.G. Ramachandran in the cinematic politics of Tamil Nadu.
China to back women’s empowerment in Sri Lanka
Currently, a group of Sri Lankan women public servants are on a study tour in China in parallel to President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s visit to Beijing
New book challenges the notion that Buddhism died in India
Author Shashank Shekhar Sinha says that India had been having conversations about Buddhism even after the religion was thought to have died in 13 th. Century CE, and therefore, it had remained part of the Indian thought-scape throughout.
The ideological basis of Gandhi’s fasts
January 13, is the 77th. anniversary of Gandhi’s last fast which was aimed at restoring Hindi-Muslim amity in riot-torn Mehrauli near Delhi
Was Ambedkar’s conversion to Buddhism political or spiritual?
Critics say that his conversion was not spiritual but political. But to Harvard University’s Christopher Queen it was an amalgam of both and that, for valid reasons. By P.K.Balachandran Colombo, January 7: 18: The father of the Indian constitution and the unquestioned leader of the...
Flexibility marked the Hindu caste order in Buddha’s time
It was much later than the Vedic rigidities gained currency By P.K.Balachandran Colombo, January 7: In Buddha’s time (Sixth-Fifth Century BC) flexibility marked the Hindu caste order and it was much later that the Vedic rigidities associated with caste gained currency, says Dr. Thomas William Rhys...
Remaining hurdles in the path to revive Pali in India
Indian Prime Minister Modi has announced the inclusion of Pali in the list of Indian “classical languages”. But if its study is to actually grow, further steps are urgently needed. By P.K.Balachandran Colombo, January 7: On October 17, Earlier this month, Indian Prime Minister Narendra...
Bangladeshi Islam is rooted in the soil
Bangladesh, which was “East Bengal” earlier, became a Muslim-majority area by a peaceful and gradual process from the Sixteenth Century onwards without alienating the indigenous culture. By P.K.Balachandran Colombo,January 7: Bangladesh, which was “East Bengal” earlier, became a Muslim-majority area by a peaceful and gradual process...
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