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Thonigala Inscriptions are of the 2nd Century BC and carved on Rock. information courtesy;Internet

Thonigala Inscriptions are of the 2nd Century BC and carved on Rock. information courtesy;Internet
Tonigala. (a.) Parumaka Abaya puta parumaka Tisaha wapi acagirika Tisa pawatahi agata anagata catudisa sagasa dine. Dewana pi maharaja Gamini Abaye niyate acanagaraka ca [tawi] rikiya nagaraka ca. Parumaka Abaya puta parumaka Tisa niyata pite raj aha agata anagata catudisa sagasa

History; Path to future

History; Path to future
Reading Future through History, Nagala mountain and the Stupa of the Nagala Kanda Rajamaha Viharaya, Nikaweva, Polpithigama, Kurunegala District.

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

a library for every school / village

i do not know how many of you have given such promises mentioned in the title to your urban or semi urban voters this election season. Refer your own list contained the promises of the election prepared by you aiming at the election to be held 10th February this year, only if you think that such efforts or promises are important. 

Dear central government are you please with the money allocated for the development or improvement of the library segments of the country? do you have any plans to increase the amount you allocate for such activities of the country? 

The teachers and scholars always say that it is very important that you ( every learner / educator/ tutor teacher) update your / their knowledge with new knowledge / findings etc. in order to enhance/ improve level of subject knowledge.  i believe that a library is a better place, mechanism for poor children to borrow and read books by spending only a few coins. 

i am not aware of  the strategies used in the library system , segments to collect (new or old) books other than purchasing copies from the authors took some efforts to publish a book facing all the obstacles possible.    

what are the issues normally faced by an author (amateur with loads of interest towards publishing a book or a person who tries to aid her / his thirst towards becoming an author or publishing a book in the current socio, economic and political context?

The cost to print at least a minimum number of copies due to what the offset print sector charges again due to high rates / the prices of inputs/ materials? paper, ink etc. 

i do not know whether existing government has any plans to decrease the prices of such materials in order to improve the segment of PRINT MEDIA as a mechanism to encourage those who wish to enter / engage / join in the sector as authors or as publishers. Yet i like to suggest it to the current government not only as a well-wisher and as a person interested in authoring and self publishing or publishing books getting a help from a publisher but also as a person who spends most my time selling books.

If it is possible to purchase materials necessary for a cheaper price, the publishers or authors they will think of  writing and publishing books without giving it a second thought or any hesitations. If they write and publish, the segment of people, entrepreneurs who sell books to their readers will not have to worry about the sustainability of their sector and of the job security of their workers, i believe. there are many middle men who depends on the 'print media / sector of publishing books. it is i believe is not a small network or community not just because each and every person of the segment depends on one another because it directly helps improve 'sector of education without any doubts. 

i believe that it is very important for any government to pay attention to this segment unlike in the past, considering every aspect , facets of importance of eliminating poverty permanently as well.

there is a saying; ' close a prison by implementing / starting a school' i like to note that for betterment of those who enters schools must get chance not only the books / text books provided by the government for free but also other good books publish locally and globally to nourish and support above wish, the saying.

wish you all every success in every good deeds you think of or planing ahead!   








Saturday, January 27, 2018

5:8

What do you think about these digits? Do not worry it is not about a date or a year that remind us something like  9/11. This is something related to a meeting / session or gathering of superiors / authorities, held for five hours. The money spent to cover the five hour session / meeting was 8 million (eighty thousand laks LKR),according to newspaper sources. i do not think that they gathered to discuss any gossips but i guess to discuss something important, still spending eighty laks is not heart pleasing. no body likes to hear such news. 

Eight million is not a little when thinking of the tasks , remain uncompleted unaccomplished, as government planned or promised initially to the citizen. some development projects for example. on the other hand they say or worry about the money lost due to bond scam dealings and at the same time we hear of such news that they are spending big money for meetings. 

The other news is that the government has appointed a new minister to take care of the Tamil Language,that too the newspapers reported as their top topic of the day.  It is silly because according to what i believe, i do not know about constitutions or about amendments  it is responsibility of the chief minister, tacking care of each and every segment , component of education as a whole. if you do so, you have to appoint at least three ministers to handle all three languages we locally use. and the The government very including the minister must take necessary actions to touch, improve every aspect, facet of 'Local Education' without really trying to separate them nationally or geographically or provincially.  It is has become the topic of the day and i guess these days people have nothing else to think of other than thinking and discussing about it. Just to please the world you must not take any foolish decisions that may lead to other issues in the future. if you purposely use the term Tamil or Sinhala you are showing something else to the world not anything such as' peace and harmony.  It reminds me of something like 'whites only and blacks only' era. 

Cannot you think of  any scholars who can take care of the education segmenting them if the government really wants?

May God Bless you and may he pardon you for all crimes you intentionally get involved in.













Monday, January 1, 2018

Sl/aves

About couple of days ago I watched Marshall. He lived in the era where they, the Negroes mainly, struggled to find and embrace the true meaning of freedom and equal rights and equal opportunities like everyone else in the world. Who is a slave? He says a slave is a person who obeys his masters’ orders. I guess this definition is too soft for its true meaning. Yet it says a lot of things.

Who is a master?

A master, according to current definitions of people is a gentle/man. Some masters of the universe, and mistresses too know how to treat their workers / maids / servants, some still not.

Are we not slaves?

No, because we do not work and earn bit of food etc. like the way slaves of the era Mr. Marshall and the other masters like Martin Luther King lived.

I think in this world we live, there are not only white masters but also white slaves. Slaves of their own masters worshiped and encourage slavery. And we cannot forget and praise the masters who established laws against slavery like President Abraham Lincoln.

Are we in the highly technically advanced electronically developed, educationally well-equipped human creatures, totally free from mentalities of slavery / slaves?
America, Russia, Japan, do you think that the world who is still seeking for total development and trying to move out of every facets of poverty are slaves of some developed countries’ that established laws and rules and regulations, implement and introduce set of economic definitions , regulations to the world / for this part of the world?

We in this part of the world not economically free from slaveries of modern day world I believe.  

America has decided to not to give/ stop giving us ‘GSP’ relief.

How some modern day economic ‘bars’ affects efforts of development, economic aims and objectives of development of the poor countries, the countries of this part of the world is something that we must discuss in modern forums and seminars, global sessions.

So according to above, in this modern economical commercial world, are we not slaves of the definitions and decisions taken by the masters of the world, developed countries?

Only thing is we do not realize or analyze such rules and bars regulations as such things.

Foot Path Wishes entire universe a happy Healthy Prosperous free from all kinds of slavery, New Year!