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Maps with Sinhala place names
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Main webpage
Sinhala Technical Terms
සිංහල තෙක්න වදන්
Sinhala Plant names - Ethnobotany
උද්භිද නම් → සිංහල නාම
Health, Exercise, Diet
සෞඛ්‍යය, ව්‍යායාම, ආහාර

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Naa නා (national tree) මල flower


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  • alleged LTTE agents' data base

  • Farmers Using MSG As Pesticides, Nov 2015
  • How to control the Dengue mosquito in a fail-safe way. Lanka Web , CDW, 25 July 2016
  • Breakthrough Drug discovered for the treatment of the Deadly Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever, 18-08-20, SDJP Website.
  • Refiew article on Dengue, Nileeka Malavige, Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol., 23 October 2020
  • Changing epidemiology of Dengue in Sri Lanka, Malavige et al 2021
  • World Health Oorganization gives DDT its approval for indoor use to control mosquitoes for indor-residual spraying. 2006
  • Dengu cases exceed 36,000, Island, Nov 12
  • Divaina, Dengu cases, July 08, 2016
  • Lanka close to WHO malaria free certificate, but vigilance needed for malaria patients returning from overseas. Dec-2014
  • What it takes to sustain a malaria-free Sri Lanka. Dr. Kamini Mendis, 26-4-2015 island
  • WHO Sri lanka Digital Repository - CKDU
  • ckdu prevalence- Anuradhapura
  • Govt. restricts import of fertilizer Containing heavy metals - clarification, 18-09-2014
  • Controlling Dengu and Kidney Disease: is the failure due to faulty ideology?
  • What to do to protect your little ones from dengue
  • Sinhala language article: Kidney Disease and Dengue - a result of wrong environmental policies? Sept 22, 2014 Sinhala article- on Fertilizers and the water supplied to the Rajarata., Nov 11,2015, a comment on an article by Dr. Nalin de Silva.
  • World bank data on Fertilizer usage.
  • Stopping a global killer- National Geographic on Malaria and the need for DDT
  • Pesticides and GMOA's allegation; B Dhanapala, 4-Sept. 2014
  • Corrupt officials make fight against CKD difficult - GMOA
  • Prof. Gamini Rajapakse's review of Chronic Kidney disease in Sri Lanka, August 2014.

  • Arsenic in the "Bath Muttiya:, Divaina Sinhala article, 22-Feb-2017
  • How glyphosate ban may trigger political violence in hill country, 14th Sept 2016, CDW
  • Environ. Health Prev. Med. DOI 1007/s12199-014-0395-5, Escaling kindney disease ....in Sri Lanka, SJ Wimalawansa (Review), 4-June-2014
  • Ministers to discuss worsening kidney disease spread; 10-10-2014
  • Wimalawansa et al, Impact of changing agricultural practices on human health: Chronic kidney disease of multi-factorial origin in Sri Lanka
  • Eco-agriculture cooperation agreement signed between Chinese and Sri Lankan institutions, DN, 18-Jan-2018
  • Governments agree to stem cancer-causing arsenic in rice. July 2014
  • Making a delicious chicken curry with arsenic in it, Island, 17-11-2018, Gandhi
  • Sales halted after arsenic found in chicken drug, Globe and Mail, 3-may-2018
  • An integrative study of the genetic, social and environmental determinants of chronic kidney disease characterized by tubulointerstitial damages in the North Central Region of Sri Lanka, Nanayakkara et al.
  • How reliable are data on CKDu?, Amarasiri de Silva, Sociologist. June 2014
  • Tackling kidney disease in NCP, Sunday Times 3-may-2014.
  • The saviour of Padaviya's CKDu patients, Sunday Times, 23-march-2014 M
  • SL saddled with annual Rs 50 bln chemical fertilizer import bill, when alternatives exist. March 2014 Fertilzer shortage in the country? January 2016
  • Sri Lanka: Stop Hoodwinking The Public Over Kidney Disease, Amarasiri de Siva, Feb. 2014
  • CKDu and agrochemicals-Weeraratna, Feb. 2014
  • Agrochemicals, CKD and vested interests, C. jayasumana, Island 21. Feb 2014,jayasumanalk@yahoo.com
  • Agro-chemicals and Chronic Kidney Disease: What needs to be done, Sunil Wimalawansa, 2014
  • Agrochemicals and CKDu, Weeraratne, 13-Feb-2014
  • Fertilizer shortage crippling plantation industry warns Planter's Assn.
  • Chronic Kidney Disease: High risk areas to be declared.
  • Having banned powdered milk, docs now want agro-chemicals prohibited !- Bodhi Dhanapala, Feb 3, 2014
  • Phosphate asphyxiation of our tanks by terrorist algae!, Daily News, 2-Jan-2014
  • Stop over-fertilizing, that is posioning! Sarath Amarasiri, Daily News, 7. Dec. 2013
  • Funds wasted on kidney disease research, Parakrama Wayidyanatha, Jan. 2014
  • No cadmium in rice grown in Sri Lanka, says Minister. Posted on June 19th, 2013
  • The agrochemicals, Chlopyrifos, Propanil and Carbaryl banned in Sri Lanka, 20013.
  • Mohamed Hijri;_a_simple solution to the coming phosphorus crisis Agriculture: A dynamic force in the Northern Peninsula, Ranjith Senaratne, Jan. 2014 Sri Lanka's Fast-track to Post-war Development: Remember the Mahaweli's Costly Lessons! Ranil Senanayke's point of view. The Gal Oya Project 60 years on - Part I, A. Kanagasundaram. The Gal Oya Project 60 years on - Part II, A. kanakasundaram
  • The start of the galoya project and controlling elephants. Wijeratne, NOv. 2015
  • Mycorrhiza Proves Valuable in Qatar's Saline Soils - how to cut down on phosphate fertilizer use.
  • Can Organic Agriculture Feed The World?, P. Waidyanatha. Nov. 2015
  • Arsenic contamination of drinking water in Bangladesh and northern India: an update 2006, Royal Society Bulletin
  • Solving Kidney Disease In Dry Zone, 17 Dec, CDW in the Colombo Telegraph.
  • Water-Lanka, Dec 13th 2013 issue, Ionicity, a new interpretation for CKDU
  • Seizing ethephon-treated fruits- a colossal waste and blunder; Parakrama Wiadyanatha, 31-Dec-2013
  • A report on the Dec-10-2013 NASSL Symposium on CKDu
  • Phytoremediation of soil and water in CKD affected areas, P. A. Yapa, island, 16-Dec-2013
  • Country awash with agro chemicals, Lanka is world's top user. Dec 16-2013
  • Health effects of Cadmium - an overview by P. A. Yapa, 25-Nov. 2013
  • Chronic kidney disease in Rajarata, worse than tsunami - Sunil Jayalath.
  • CKD in India- Rajpurkar et al, 2012
  • Review of CKDU in Sri Lanka - Kamani Wanigasuriya, J. College of Community Physicians, Sri Lanka, June 2012
  • Agri-Ministry to deal with high phosphorus levels in vegetable cultivations Daily News, 29th Nov 2013
  • Why agrochemicals- C. S. Weeraratne, 21-Sept-2013
  • Red rice -Anna-Britta Stahl- Island 17-Nov.2013
  • Milk matters, U. Pethiyagoda, Sept 3, Island, 2013.
  • IFS warns against unregulated import of bio-fertilisers, Gamini Seneviratne, Island Aug 28-2014
  • Chronic Kidney Disease of Uncertain Origin in the Dry Zone (CKDu), By Ranjit Mullriyawa
  • Cancer research and MOU with U of Kentuky
  • suspected DCD contamination in Milk products 4-Aug-2013
  • Acidic well water, O. illeperuma
  • Heavy metals, gods, CKDu and govt. policy, R. O. Thattil, Aug., 2013
  • Soil samples taken from paddy fields contain Cadmium, DN,june 2013
  • Env. & tech, June 2013 on Cd in Rice   n.b. downloaded via a subscription to the ACS-journal and made available here strictly for purposes of academic study.
  • Sri Lanka rice second highest for toxic metal in 12-nation study: report 10 Jun, 2013 Business online
  • Refined sugar and cadmium issue, Nande Dharmawardana, 4-June 2013
  • Success story in organic farming in Welimada's hills, Dr. Prasanna Cooray, 4-June island
  • NCP kidney disease: Questions and answers -B D
  • CKDu: Scientific evidence and anti- zealotry - I, April 2013
    CKDu: Scientific evidence and anti- zealotry - II, April 2013
  • Renal diseases in the dry zone, Cecil Dharmasena, island, 22-April-2013
  • New steps target kidney disease, Dec 29-2012
  • on CKDU, in Env. GeoChem. Health 2010 -Peer Reviewed paper, by Chandradith et al.
  • Controversy of Arsenic in Pesticides - some facts, by Rohan Rajapaksa, Professor in Entomology and Crop Protection, Ruhuna
  • Four pesticides and one weedicide banned,BY SANDUN A. JAYASEKERA Sep 14, 2013
  • As kidney disease kills thousands across continents, scientists scramble for answers
  • NCP Kidney Disease - thinking outside the box - Daily News; 12-Sept-2012
  • NCP Kidney disease - by Prof. Chandre Dharmawardana
  • Conflicting reports highlight scientific data gaps in Sri Lanka's chronic kidney disease
  • NCP kidney disease-the reality; Dr.C.Weeraratna (csweera@sltnet.lk)
  • SRI LANKA: Drought link with kidney disease risk Aug 2012
  • https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace/wiki/Default-Keyboard-Shortcuts Rajarata kidney disease and the role of heavy metals, Prof. O A I Ileperuma, July 2012
  • Dr. Vijaya Kumar - Arsenic in pesticides
  • Rice varieties of Shot duration, Sri Lanka, RMTRajapaksa et al, Batalagoda
  • Sri Lankan Rice Mixed Meals: Effect on Glycaemic Index and Contribution to Daily Dietary Fibre Requirement, SJP-biochemistry.
  • Rice crisis Dec 2016, Interview with Dudley Sirisena, Divaina.
  • The Rice Mafia, Divayina article, 13-03-2019
  • Experts question logic of importing costly foreign cows-Aug-2013
  • Importing cattle for what? February 14, 2019, C. S. Weerratne, 14-02-2019
  • Negombo's lagoon lifestyle faces threat , Crystal Koelmayer
  • Whither the Department of Agriculture? by Dr. U. P. de S. Waidyanatha
  • The drought and depleted tanks in Nuwarakalaviya by Dr Garvin Karunaratne
  • Thousands of years-old Nilgala medicinal forest being destroyed by weedicides, Jan,2014
  • Giving up Gourmet rice for a disfucntional airport in Kundasale
  • Muthurajawela Marshland threatened
  • Venivaelgaeta-Weniwelgeta,Prof. Nimal Gunatilleke, University of Peradeniya
  • POSTS -

    We have attempted to keep a tally of various articles of interest, as well as Sebastian Rasalingam's impassioned articles expressing a virtual lone-voice mainly about the hierarchic caste discrimination within Tamil society itself, and articles by a number of other writers like Thomas Johnpulle. However, as these writers publish in a variety of electronic and printed newspapers, the following list may not be complete, or may not indicate the original source. We also find that Sri Lankan electronic journals "borrow" from each other without indicating the original source!. The articles are merely listed here for ease of access. They indicate an emerging pattern in the expression of dissenting Tamil opinion, perhaps associated with decreasing fear of the LTTE since 2006:

    Articles about place.names Selected articles by various writers on Lankan issues
    Island Article on Beruwala, June 2011-
    Revising the place names of Sri Lanka by kamalika Peiris Prof. Laksiri Fernando on Fonseka's presidential bid
    Ancient Mahathalithagama is today's Manik Farm IDPs in SL - report by Perera, Cheliah, Chandran July 09
    Sathara Varam Deiyyo-Guardian deities Inter-group bridge building and not pie-cutting devolution, by Rasalingam
    Upulvan in the safe zone Hostages escaping Tigers - what do the numbers say?
    The footprints of warriors and saints in Alimankada, Kili and Mullaitivu. Lamp-post murders of Tamils by the LTTE
    "Hela Urumaya, Ila-t-Urimai", is this Sinhala or Tamil? rd urumaya? of JHU is a Tamil word. Growing menace on India's South front, by R. Vignesvaran
    Road to Moolaitivu by D.G.A.Perera Review of Tsunami Reconstuction by 2006
    Kilinochchi recaptured in 13th Century too by D.G.A.Perera The Other side of R2P, and other articles by Gerald Peiris
    Articles by Gomin Dayasiri, H. L. de Silva and others
    Sapumal Kumaraya and Puran Appu Prabakaran Has Done To Tamils What No Dutugemunu Could Do, by Rasalingam
    Mahatheetha-Punranna and Jackson's movie "ABA" Catching a Cobra by the Tail, by Rasalingam
    From Kalpitiya to Kihirikanda; an embattled region.
    History making, by Michael Roberts
    Silumina article, by CDW, Tigers are the traitors to the Tamil cause, by Satchi Sithanandan
    Silumina article, by Ananada Wijesinghe Tamil Nationalism, by Michael Roberts, Journal of South Asian Studies, n.s., Vol.XXVII, no.1, April 2004
    Sri Lanka -Is it reasonable to divide this small house? by S. Samarajiwa Susantha Goonatilleke, Jehan Perera; peace debate 2001; NGOs peace-makers or money-makers?
    International Alert, Norway and the LTTE, June 1998 Sunday Times Gamini Iriyagolle's Discussion of "Tamil-Homeland" claims
    Prabhakaran's interview with Time Magazine, 1990 -
  • Pinacl Resort, Hanwella, Colmbo Distric.
  • Kuruwita retreats, St. Anthoniz estate, batathota, Kuruwita
  • Halgolla, Between Kurunegala and Kandy, Halgolla Plantation Home; www.halgollaplantationhome.com, emil@halgollaplantationhome.com (Emil van der Poorten), phone: 94-77-347-0702 or 94-72-284-9770
  • Kayankerni, Pasikudah Email: lakmal@gimanfree.com | www.gimanfree.com. 071 947 45 36, 065 364 99 99



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