The paradigm Shift in Sri Lanka Blog Sphere

30 Mar 2010

About five years back Sri Lankan cyber sphere was dominated by news and information sites owned by local comprador business mafia. They were ably backed up by various blogs like sites operated by INGO’s and their hired writers. At that time, Internet was a luxury item only affordable to upper class society in Colombo.

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Passing of Health Service Reforms Act- A historic win for the common people of USA over business mafia

21 Mar 2010

Today (March 21st) mark historic day for the common people of the United States of America when much awaited and controversial health reform bill was finally passed in US House of Representatives ending years long tussle between president Obama and health insurance industry of USA.

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Political Leprosy and Crippled Democracy

20 Mar 2010

Many a time in your life, you may have heard a person calling another as having political fever. However we hardly mention or discuss about people having political leprosy or the people without political sense. Political fever may harmful to the individual, but too many people having political leprosy is great danger to the democracy and progress of the whole society.

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Modern Software Development Methodologies

18 Mar 2010

If you are a software professional, you would have come across various software development models / frameworks – such as Waterfall, Spiral, Agile, Extreme Programming, Test Driven Development, etc.. There are some interesting ‘models’ which you would have experienced in your projects, but forgot to call it with a name.

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The Cabinet Misters of Mahinda Rajapaksa government 2010 - Lanka Rising’s wish list

16 Mar 2010

The Sri Lanka Rising's wish list of Cabinet Ministers of Mahinda Rajapaksa government 2010 are listed below.

When there are more than one proposed candidate, the preferred candidate is highlighted in yellow. The proposed total number of cabinet ministers are 30 (Including President and PM).  

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Appointing next Prime Minister – Need of serious thoughts

14 Mar 2010

According to the 1978 constitution of Sri Lanka, the post of Prime Minister (PM) became secondary portfolio in the light of executive president whom is directly elected by the vote of the nation.The people of the country elect a president for a term of six years and we all expect that the policy of the president will be exercised for the whole period. However we are not living in a perfect democratic world and threats to the life of the president is always immense

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The Score Card of Ministers of Mahinda Rajapaksa Government

12 Mar 2010

The next parliament election of Sri Lanka is clearly not an election of regime change, but a election of changing the tone within the government. It is people of this country can influence President Mahinda Rajapaksa by electing clean, efficient patriotic politicians who excelled in last parliament while showing due destination to the most corrupt, inefficient traitors of the mother land.

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Buddhist Economics - Beyond capitalism

10 Mar 2010

The capitalist approach of life is to focus more fundamentally on the underlying motivation of buying and consuming so many resources for a good quality of life. Though our society often seeks to buy happiness, materialism very frequently fails to satisfy, and may even increase the level of stress in life.

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Business Process Outsourcing – Other side of the white-collar

6 Mar 2010

Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) was born with capitalism as a consequence of the uncontrolled competition between capitalists, something inherent to this system. It is a means of increasing the exploitation of the whole working class both in the West and East with sole ambition of increasing profits for capitalist entrepreneurs!

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McDonald's – The tale of the fast food factory

5 Mar 2010

McDonald’s has become the best-known fast food brand in the world.  It has 31,000 restaurants in 120 countries around the world and serves nearly 47 million customers each day, and for many has come to symbolise the hopes and the fears of the Americanization of global culture.

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Globalization in reality

3 Mar 2010

Globalisation is not a recent phenomenon. It started way back in the fifteenth century. The day Vasco de Gama went round Africa the modern globalisation began. As a phenomenon it has passed through several stages and today we are experiencing a stage, which has been named globalisation.

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