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Sri Lanka Police -156th Anniversary – By C.L.Ratnayake(Retired Deputy Inspector General of Police) Source : island On 3rd September 2022 Sri Lanka Police celebrated its 156th anniversary. There were several articles published in the newspapers both in Sinhala and English. The Assistant Director of the Police Media Division made a very impressive presentation in an interview aired over Newsline. According to him Police Department boasts of approximately 96,000 personal both male and female of all ranks engaged in duties in more than 600 Police stations in 120 Police divisions scattered all over the island. Police boasted of an exemplary service few decades ago, but at present what is the perception of the public on the performance of the Police? Do we, the members of the public, get the protection we deserve from the Police? Indisputably crime – especially organized crime; cybercrime and crime related to narcotics drugs with involvement of foreign ...

A story surrounding the fantasy of undefined relationships – By Chanuka Wattegama Source:dailymirror.lk What today’s Sinhala literature badly lacks are variety and avant-gardism. The Sinhala print text has been dominated for too long by the senior generation–dreary old men and women who are not in touch with modernity, grossly incapable of experimenting with fresh themes- having already run out of steam several decades ago, and continue to play the broken gramophone discs to audiences they discovered in the ‘80s. They may be the ones who are awarded literary honours, but they are not necessarily the ones read. Gen Zers would not touch them with a barge pole. Surath De Mel is not necessarily young. Still, he is skilled at touching ‘young’ themes that no other current author dares experiment with. Instead of middle-aged adulterous relationships, young aristocrats living in ancient mansions built by their great grandparents, poor peasants, corrupted ...