Why Old People run away from the Internet?

There are many reasons.

I will list only what I have gone through.

The list can go up to 30 but I will restrict it to 20.

 

I am a tech geek for the past 20 years and not a amateur guy fiddling with a cellphone or a tablets and can identify a technical problem within 24 hours. 

My Internet schedule was 24/7 until recently and due to Coronavirus epidemic, I went into a laid back attitude. Our Internet was down for a month and I did not even bother to give a call to Mobitel which is painfully slow to react to customer needs.

I have fully switched to Dialog which is doing a credible support job and is even cheaper to my pocket and use Dialog TV but switched it off during the election campaign. 

So fiddling with my assortment of cheap cellphones and tablets which run on Kitkat, Android 6, 8 and 10.

Now bouquets  to Android developers for having an array of typefaces for my one finger typing skills. 

Thanks to SPIKE, SPARK, various little notes in various colours, black and white, for note keeping and the light weight Facebook Messenger utility.

I am gradually switching off from the computers (dismantled three for good) to cellphones to save energy.

The preamble above is to show that I am not a grumbling old guy with handicaps. 

I am showings signs of old age but my attitude to life is simple and friendly.

 

All these are constructive remarks for struggling tech companies to keep their head above water and survive the economic downturn.

1. None of the applications is user friendly.

 

2. None of the applications is user friendly for people with visual handicap.

 

3. The sign in procedures with emails are very painful due to email password being very difficult to handle and remember even for a teenager.

 

4.The two stage authentication is very painful procedure. if the battery of your cellphone is dead and you do not have a spare telephone with a different carrier SIM.

 

5. All tech companies are paranoid.They are more worried about subscrition drive and not quality in service.

 

6. I use a Linux Box and its version is Deabian 9 and has and an old Firefox version without updates for a very long time but running smoothly. It is OK for my work but some video utilities cannot run on it.

 

7. I cannot use the cellphone to run bulky videos, I get from my old friends especially one with Microsoft exe files.

8. i have enormous number of films downloaded and accidentally erased them in a mater of minutes (all my external Hard Drives and Flash Drives are belly full).

I have one free SD card and one 4 GB spare flash drive. I do not want to buy new spare parts.

 

9. Cloud should save my data and signing them to Google Drive is painful with a new cellphone.

 

10. I used Microsoft's One Drive and stopped it in a month due to its snooping on my accounts.

 

11. I erased its launcher and its utilities except for few wallpapers.

 

12. So Firefox is a pain. Chrome is a pain and even Brave browser is a pain.

 

13. Microsoft's launcher is a pain.

 

14. All email providers are pain except one.

 

15. i have activated two of my old emails coming from America to take the pain out of my mind, in spite of integrating them with SPIKE and SPARK.

 

16. I am going to transfer myself to one email out of six.

 

17. I am warning my friends by December they will not be able to forward emails to me by gut reaction. They have to use my dedicated email.

 

18. Then I am going to restrict my email contacts to 20 and that's it.

 

19. I will use only Duckduckgo, a Linux utility. 

Mind you Moxilla of Firefox was a Linux utility.

 

20. These tech companies who have made money from Linux utilities are trying to make money during  an economic crisis asking for subscription for cheap products for upgrades.

That is not good and the young tech guys also want to make a flashy and clumsy products.

In business sustainability is the name of the game and making a fast buck is going to kill them in the long run, especially if they are based on top of a free subscription product.

I am long gone by then, when they the next stock market crash occurs.

 

It is round the corner I believe.

 

We all people have done our part in our time and you are not going to here any more critical and time based analysis from me.

 

I  will enjoy my retirement and no interest  in  politics like the old guys in our parliament.

 

I am going to buy a new cellphone as a spare in case I drop the present one and break it, and no more laptops but a good tablet is out of my purse.

J.V.P's Contribution to our Economy

Out of the 130 C.E.B transformers, 2 were in my locality.

I managed to replace three of the transformers (many more elsewhere) with the help of a lady engineer friend (she said this is the last one I have) and saved the third one until the chaos subsided with risks to my own life.

I think as a mark of remembrance JVP MPs should not be given a laptop free but charge at five time the costs of a laptopn from their salaries. 

 

J.V.P's Contribution to our Economy

Referring to the contribution made by the JVP to the national economy, the state minister read out a list of damages and destruction attributed to the Marxist party during its second insurrection in the period of terror from 1989-90. “They destroyed 684 post offices, 13 telecommunications centers, 550 buses, 75 tea factories, 40 estate bungalows, 130 CEB transformers, 12 trains and six railway stations. The total loss by those actions has been estimated at Rs. 55 billion rupees.”

House Sparrows and Local Birds

House Sparrows and Local Birds

It is more than 3 years of my casual observation of extinction of house sparrows in Ceylon and visit to Singapore bird’s Park to investigate it.

It is our local farmers and importers of poison in the name of fertilizers that poison the birds and majestic elephants. 

The poisons get deposited in the ovaries and cause permanent damage.

 

That is not the point, I am driving at. 

 

With the recent convincing, majority win, the culture vultures are back in the game displacing our parrots from Gampola Umboluwawa to Thumpane forest reserve. 

In Gampola it is a former PM’s son (who mortally injured opposing supporters in the backdrop of Siripada forest reserve on the Balangoda side, when I was working in Ratnapura) who is supervising the forest destruction.

The damage these guys done in Ratnapura in the name of gem pits is enormous. 

 

At Thumpane side I do not know who it is, but I certainly will do not think, the descendants of Chandrasiri but those who did damage to Muslim properties recently, who are active again.

It was a pleasant surprise to see a pair of house sparrows trying to make use of a nest made by bull bul under the roof of our veranda. 

My observation is that helping them to domesticate warrants more danger to their next of kins.

The cats are domestic pests but more successful are the snakes who will spare no bones or eggs.

It is more surprising a pair of Kingfisher is building a nest in the neighborhood on the wall of a slipped earth (mini) mountain.

So my insidious attempts to encourage the bird friendly environment is working at slow pace but not to the level when woodpeckers bored nests on jack trees in the 80s, when I was working in UK.

Under the Ma Ha Ra Ja Regime 8 jack trees were felled in 10 days of my observation and protest in 2005.

Only one, a daughter tree survives.

It is strange coincidence that Ma Ha Ra Ja’s Gola Balayas have to plant jack seeds and wait for them to bear fruits.

I have a few Bonzai Jack plants and one is the sweet Waraka type in our roof top garden with mini fruits pending not in my life time. 

 

Unfortunately, their grandchildren won’t enjoy them since their dream inside the womb is to go to Korea.

 

My Android Dream

My Android Dream

My first phone was a Java Bean.

Then I had GreenTel phone with Android 6 which has very good Camera.

Latter edition of GreenTel is not upto the mark.

But my Nokia with Android 8 under Rs.15,000/= is a solid built and I can SPLIT the screen.

Floating notes and coloured notes are nicely displayed.

SamSung phone under Rs.15,000/= slightly inferior in quality with Android 8 and no hardware support for SPLIT screen.

 

My first entry to Android 4.4, was the Chinese KitKat tablet, which is still functioning but due to poor RAM downloading even 10 MB is a pain.

I have that patience having used MobiTel in Ceylon, which is the slowest in my experience (I have gone to Dialog).

My tablet of Android 8 is manageable for me to bid and play Bridge, when I am bored.

I want to buy a new cellphone in case I drop the Nokia on the floor and break it.

 

All cellphones available in MobiTel are Android 8s and all of them cost over Rs. 65,000/= and over 50% this price tag is the government TAX. 

 

So if you have a friend going to Singapore ask him to buy a good phone and come back with Coronavirus SCARE (nobody will bother to see you on your return, what a luxury!).

 

So my advice is, if you have a good working phone look after it and do not buy a new one because your friend's girl friend has a new one.

Hardware is the same but software one can upgrade once a year.

So thank you guys and girls developing Android Software and FREE or Fdroid will (free software initiative) will never hit the shop floor.

Even a geriatric can now use a cellphone and it is not the foray of ONLY young ones.

Think of the old guys with vision impairment and help them with voice instructions.

I am allergic to voice instructions and deactivate it by default.

 

Yes you can do that.

Go to hardware SETUP and go to silence mode.

The strap of the Chinese built, Smart Watch (with piece of circuit inside) is broken and I cannot wear it. I do not know its operating system and I believe if not Java it is Linux and it won't get the applications it displays installed wirelessly.

Beware and do not order smart watch by mail even it is cheap.

 

Nothing is cheap nowadays with superimposed TAXES.

 

I use it as a bluetooth device now.

 

Android version 4.4: KitKat (Please note that this is a reproduction with Grammerly edited)

 

Late-2013's KitKat release marked the end of Android's dark era, as the blacks of Gingerbread and the blues of Honeycomb finally made their way out of the operating system. 

Lighter backgrounds and more neutral highlights took their places, with a transparent status bar and white icons giving the OS a more contemporary appearance.

Android 4.4 also saw the first version of "OK, Google" support — but in KitKat, the hands-free activation prompt worked only when your screen was already on and you were either at your home screen or inside the Google applications.

The release was Google's first foray into claiming a full panel of the home screen for its services, too — at least, for users of its Nexus phones and those who chose to download its first standalone launcher.

Why I wish not to be born again in Ceylon?

Why I wish not to be born again in Ceylon?

I am writing this with over 70 years of experience in my files or folds.

First we have a parliament which has over 125 elected representative who are IRCs (I.R.C. means Island Registered Criminals not Internet Relay Chat) or either Sinhala (D.J.V.P and J.V.P) Tamil (L.T.T.E and many more) or Muslim (? now Thaw-shit Jamal) terrorists or their sympathizers.

I think we introduced all types of terrorists to this world in 1956 when Ceylon was changed to Sri-Lanka by ill gotten politicians of all faiths.

Then, closer to my heart all my foreign cheques or transactions were stolen in the Colombo Post Office by the criminal syndicates who are good at delivering illegal drugs within 24 hours to any corner of the country but the letters and money orders takes more than 24 hours for delivery or lost in the mail, for ever where no legal mechanism to catch or punish them.

Then comes the crunch point this country is pawned for over 100 years by our politicians over the past 15 years and we are selling our prime land to China and India and multinationals from all over the Globe. 

So how can I be proud of Ceylon or wish to be born again here? 

This piece is to highlight the contribution of the British and the  American Postal Officers to Global communication link long before the new I.R.C. or Internet Relay Chats were established.

Vital part of this development is rail roads and highways built by the British to make delivery is possible to any part in this country within 24 hours. 

Now we have given that civil responsibility which we were able to manage by Civil Servants of High Quality in the past, including our Grama Niladharis or Grama Sevakas to the three armed forces (to an individual family who has taken over the forces under their fold) who were good at killing host of civilians with the putative terrorists. 

Before coming to the digital closing remarks, I want to highlight that I am waiting to get my third ID card which I applied for, ages ago but not yet received and a guy at Dialog refused to issue a telephone number with 077 prefix to me. 

This is what happens to a simple retiree in his or her 70s.

Wish I am dead sooner than later but politicians over 70s are running this country or ruining this country and the youth are eloping and none will wish to return as NOT intended by their own parents as they leave. 

This tendency, I believe is ingrained in the womb by ultrasound noise they hear while incubating inside.

Now let me thank the British and the American civilian administrators who have made me a digital entity and their entries (even if my ID card is not delivered before my demise) will last for 70 years or more after my death (70 year is which my legal premise will end abruptly and posthumously).

When I reached UK, I only had a passport and 50 pounds and I lived on borrowed money for 4 months (living was cheap then and with five pounds a day on a tube-train in daytime and a derelict hostel at night with 50 pence coin for gas heating, was more than enough for survival).

I got an instant (not digital) photo in a tube train in London (which tube train I forget, may be King's Cross) and a weekly Travel Card with a photo ID for traveling up and down never coming out unless, I wanted to go to a bookshop at Charring Cross (Foyles Book Shop, the largest in England, then).

Reading on the go, I learned in UK, which I carry to this day!

No cellphones or laptops, personal computer came into existence in primitive form and I bought a 128 Compaq (coming from US and UK did not have computers except perhaps Sinclare) as my last purchase, before leaving UK.

Within a month of my first employment in the National Health Services (N.H.S.) I got my first digital identity by filling a form and posting it to the head quarters of National Insurance as a legal immigrant from Ceylon.

My degree certificate was M.B.B.S (Ceylon) and O and A level certificates with English translations were never requested (by now all printed in Sinhala only) for authentication since, The University of Ceylon was a recognized (unlike today) Entity in UK.

Then, I got my first digital license in 1980s in Ceylon and A.A.International driving license.

Now everything is digital including postal numbers which originated in America.

I hope the American Postal Service will survive the crisis including the postal voting.

I am against digital voting which European Union wants to establish.

Voting is a private affair and it should be recorded as such and only the Postal Service can do that effectively, no other organization or N.G.O of European origin can think of coming close to that of the experience of the Postal Service.

Even though, my cheques were stolen by workers with bad taste, I always support (poor man's option) the postal services and it had done service even during the Second World War with only civilian administration.

By the way, my first ID for O Level examination was from the postal service and the same photo was pasted in my record book of the University.

I worked for a Faculty Academic Identity Card to avoid security officers with no credentials checking your entry, in all institutions today.

The Marshal Office was a recognized entity, then.

This country going for military control aided by stupid monks in saffron cloths, the only civilian link going to be the letter delivered or the tinkle one make with the old handset (trunk call we call it).

Now the cellphone can do wonders.

We paralyzed the administration of Sirima with Felix Dias as a dictator.

We can do it again, if the need arises BUT digitally.

Do not be reticent or withdrawing from responsibility, when the need arises.

Enterprise resource planning (ERP)

E.R.P another buzz word 

Why Don't you say Linux Software Management or L.S.M.

They take Free Software and do not acknowledge the most important developers.

Enterprise resource planning

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) refers to a type of software that organizations use to manage day-to-day business activities such as accounting, procurement, project management, risk management and compliance and supply chain operations.

 

Customer Relation in ZoHO Management

I hate catch S.M.S types of terms in business management and life in general.

C.R.M IS one such S.M.S.

I find this company doing a good job.

It took some time to get my old email activated by my phone.

There was a similar lag phase of logging in (not automated like other emails) by computer with Firefox.

I am bit reluctant with big and bulky Chrome.

In my old age, I like the SLOW phase unlike the fast phase of new cellphones, where I can check my spellings and also my thought processes which are faster than an average computer but not in any sense in quantum range.

Reproduction of CRM

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The Rajavasala Box of Tricks for Disaster

 

Reproduction

The Rajavasala Box of Tricks for Disaster

Published

September 5, 2020

 

Will end up in Yama-Palanaya! 

Thinking Out of the Box is the catchline of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. He gave this advice to the banking sector in May this year, and to the members of parliament in his opening address last month.

The need for new ways of thinking to overcome local and global challenges and revive the economy – out of the box thinking – is the declared stuff of his reasoning. The new ministerial structure was also with such thinking.

What is advocated with such emphasis for economic growth, has been wholly ignored for the progress and growth of democracy. It looks like economic growth has nothing to do with the advance of democracy. The rulers of the past, in many countries of the world, had their economic and wealth gains, with nothing to do with democracy or the sovereignty of the people. These were known as dictatorships, the power of colonialism, and Soveit and Communist power too.  

Are we rapidly making a retreat to the proper Rajavasala Buddhiya – the Thinking of the Ruler Reign, a rush back to the Box of Dictatorship?

The 20th Amendment to the Constitution now made public shows a complete retreat to a non-democratic situation, and thinking that is entirely within the Executive Presidential Box.

The 19th Amendment will be no more under this Rajapaksa Regime. It has the two-thirds power for that. Two items of the 19A will be kept – the reduced five-year term of the presidency and the two term limit for a President. Two items that don’t matter for Mahinda Rajapaksa anymore.  Everything else that matters, that came from out of the box thinking by Yahpalanaya in April 2015 will be no more.

The rush to the 20A is a mockery of the voters who, thanks to a divided and crooked UNP, enabled a two-thirds power to the Rajapaksas. It has nothing to do with the need to meet the economic and  social needs and demands of the people, in the post Covid 19 crisis. The 20A is the re-empowering of an Executive Presidency, even more than what JR Jayewardene forced on the people in 1978.

The ‘out of the box’ thinking of the Rajapaksas is very much ‘in the box’ of ensuring family power without even a semblance of democracy. The service of Independent Commissions in key areas such as the Judiciary, Elections. Human Rights, Police, Public Service, Bribery and Corruption, Finance, and many others are no more. The Constitutional Council is disbanded to empower a Parliamentary Council that  can only advise the president,  The Auditor General’s independence is forgotten. Appointments to key positions of the Judiciary are in the hands of the President (and politicians!) 

In a situation where the average age of MPs is reportedly in the late 60s, the 35 year age limit brought by 19A to a candidate for the presidency, has been reduced to 30 years. It is clear that the ageing Rajapaksas – from the late 60s to near 80 – have thought of their younger generation for the continuance of the Rajavasala domain.

What the 19A did was to give more power to Parliament and the Prime Minister, as elected representatives of the people, against the Executive President that was the singularly dominant power in the country. 20A will ensure the end of such recognition of the sovereignty of the people. The Prime Minister, even being an elder brother of the President, is wholly under him, who will chair the Cabinet, can hold any number of Cabinet portfolios, and can appoint any member to the Cabinet, without the approval of the PM. Sections of the media report that the PM is in a political trap, but let’s not forget that such traps are a necessity for wider family dominance over the demands of democracy.

Then comes the dual citizenry; what is seen by many as the key need of the 20A. It was the 19A that banned dual citizens from contesting elections to parliament and holding the country’s presidency. JRJ’s dictatorship had not banned this. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, after being a US citizen for nearly three decades, gave it up, to contest for the presidency. But there is another Rajapaksa dual citizen who will not give it up. The 20A is the decorative path for Basil Rajapaksa to move to Parliament, Cabinet, even Prime Minister, and who knows even the President, come the proper time!

Let’s not bother to talk of the conflicting situation that prevails when a person who has pledged to serve the US as a citizen, fight for it, be armed against countries and forces that oppose it, or strongly disagree with it, can be a representative of the sovereignty of the Sri Lankan people, and or the independent policies of this country. We are moving to the dual Citizenship Box and not thinking out of it. It is the Box of the MCC deal which the Rajapaksas and Pohottuva were loudly against … but not so much today. This is a move to the Pathfinder Box that will see its leader as the High Commissioner to India, with a Cabinet ranking. Just think a little more of the other Pathfinders in key positions of government today. What a Box of American strategy to be caught in!

We are in the midst of a duality of thinking. The duality of those talk loud about protection of Sri Lankan citizenship, and also hugely support the benefits and advantages of the US Citizenship. Are we moving to a situation when a 21st Amendment will give dual – US and Sri Lanka citizenship – to all Sri Lankan, whether Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim and Aadivaasi too?

Thinking out of the box shows us the huge dangers of the 20A. In a country that thinks a lot about rebirth, this looks very much like a move towards the rebirth of JRJ. The rebirth of the dictatorial dominance that all parties in the opposition from the SLFP to the JVP – and the older LSSP and CP and breakaways – called for removal, by abolishing the 1978 JRJ Constitution.

Such thinking, once strongly supported in the Mahinda Chinthana in several elections, is now no more. We are taken back to the Jayewardene Box of political strategy, creeping into the new Rajapaksa Box of politics and governance. The rise of the Jayewardene – Rajapaksa Presidency. The Box of Disaster for Democracy, out of which no thinking is done by the Rajavasala Kattayas of today!

 

Contentment

Contentment

If one looks at our hill mynah, it has inborn cheerfulness even on a rainy day.

 

What it means is we have feel good factors or hormones including dopamine and serotonin built into our nervous system which we have turned off habitually by

1. Prejudice
2. Presumption
3. and by inborn errors made by parents in primitive years of childhood development by placing unrealistic expectations from their kith and kin.

This has morphed into the Coronsvirus paranoia currently, and people have gone into a deep core of discontentment.

 

Unfortunately, our Buddhist monks exacerbate this tendency by highlighting the fourth of the four Agati, the BAYA into the forefront.

 

This is just to get the vehicle the temple needs in addition to the sumptuous Dhana, which are antithesis to Buddha's teaching and expectation and not aspiration (which is the disease of politicians).

 

I now say our monks go to Nirvana in a Pajero very very slowly due to the Pajero's built in inertia.

 

One of my friends who enjoys a good daily drink made me to be aware of basically three types who need hi5s.

1. Drug Addicts
    
2. Alcoholic
    
3. Meditator with Jhana craze
    
   All three of these types are habitually trying to upgrade dopamine and serotine status.
   The evolution has a safety valve called melatonin status which controls the diurnal rhythm and downgrade these highs, so the meditator has to meditate daily, drinker has his tot and the addict goes for a deep inhale ever so often.
   Now I know the bee the busybody has more hormones in its nectar and the bee honey is non addictive but soothing.
   The honey bird spends all his day sucking honey and the flower flows the honey in spurts.
    
   This enticement and engagement trick of nature keep the evolutionary wheels turning round.
    
   There is a honey bird for every flower.
   The beauty of nature.
   I think chocolates coming from a bean has more feel good factors than anything else and the gift or dowry of Aztecs. It is better than a tedious meditation course, now selling very badly in America with Coronavirus paranoia and election politics.

Priorities in Life and Death

Priorities in Life and Death

 

When you got to go, you got to go, this is coming from Jurassic Park movie.

In our country, people hold onto power for ages not looking back and reflecting on crimes they have committed and deaths toll that mounted from 1970 to 2000.

All those in power except Dudley Senanayake has committed crimes in the name of National Security.

 

There was no exception, for the greed for power. 

 

That includes leaders of Singapore, Malaysia and now Ceylon.

In this country, children and babies are traded and organ transplanted in India to drug kingpins and a coterie of doctors run this organ Mafia.

So impending death of a moribund is traded with kidneys of babies and children traded live and even their bones are not spared.

 

This happens in America, too.

 

Those who live on parts of others should be ashamed unless the parts are donated by a twin sibling or a near relative.

I will never donate my organs or live on another's parts except for cornea for blindness.

 

This is incompatible in a country where believing in another life is the cornerstone.

 

So when you have to go “let go”, the most Rev. Ajahn Brahma Wanso’s meditation technique.

 

World population is growing fast and without (for me a top priority), a global population policy, “let go” is the survival strand for this planet.

 

If this is not addressed, natural control by Coronavirus will take precedence.

That is the reality with a mass movement, air travel, refugees of war-torn countries and now the economic downturn.

 

Few of my priorities are

1. Improvement in cheap Telecoms connectivity with more satellites in Space.
2. Cut down on Space Travel (less or more gravity is incompatible with our physiology), Space Exploration and Rocket Science.
3. More satellites on space for formal education.
4. Population control with only two children per family (any additional child the parents should bear, the costs and no religious favours)
5. No religious teaching or conversion of children until they are 25 years. The terrorists and suicide killers are recruited between the age of 15 and 25.
6. I believe religions cause more harm than good and moral code or ethics should be applied only to politicians and their putative parties. The laymen should be free to create his/her own religion after 35 (when the brain cells start dying at a faster rate) and should own it as copyright and should not allow anybody else to copy even after death.
7. I believe that will settle most of our problems who declare that religion is a must, even though it leads to a blind ally.

Discovery of Grammerly and Firefox Integration

Discovery of Grammerly and Firefox Integration

Coronavirus lock down and incarceration have made me to discover the potential of writing without a keyboard.

I was trying to have a virtual grammerly keybord in my Linux box.

I failed but discovered that I can use grammerly as an add on on Firefox for my blogging.

Unlike Google it does warn me of grammatical mistakes and typos.

In my age mistakes are plenty and I wanted to give up blogging on account of recurrent mistakes.

I can upload files from my computer.

Now I will not give up but continue.

It has a subscription protocol for serious writers.

Thank YOU and I wish you success.

 

My First Note in Spike

 My First Note in Spike

I was ambiguous of my first note, simply because I have lost interest in many fields including medical matters.

1. I lost interest in politics after 50 years of its observation globally.
2. Then I lost interest in religion, that dated back to my childhood but hiding behind the masses who follow one or other form of it. Then after my retirement from active work, this resurfaced in vigour, questioning their contribution to humanity.
3. Then I lost interest in helping (not empathy) the beggars. My idea of creating (including political, I prefer a different word sounding similar but would be nice here) a beggar in any form is counterproductive.
4. Then, to keep me occupied I stared feeding all the dogs, where ever I meet then.
5. Finally, I developed a keen interest in birds after noting disappearance of sparrows, that made me to visit Bird’s Park in Singapore. Then I developed the idea of making bird friendly environment.The cats (snakes,too) are their biggest enemies but the biggest impact is from unregulated agricultural poisons dished out that get deposited in the ovaries and eggs.
6. Finally Coronavirus came in and it made me to wake up from slumber, as it was.
7. By the way, this piece is medical.
8. We were taught to be very careful when dispensing steroids due to many (some exaggerated) of its side effects. After the loss of two children who were under my care (due to D.J.V.P insurrection in 1989) who could not reach me (cell phones were not available then) physically, I totally revised my policy globally, in Ceylon and abroad dishing out steroids, (especially Dexamethasone) liberally. A reserve course (dose depending on the individual) of steroids was given to each deserving family, with an instruction to take the first dose and see any available (Typed Note was dispensed, no computers then) medical person (do not go on looking for me). The reason is, their is delay in action of steroids for 8 hours or more. This saved many an agony to many of my patients. Now for Coronavirus, there is no treatment.
9. At least to avoid respiratory complications that result from various kinds of interleukins, a fast and furious (this new terminology of mine, furious to mean large and aggressive dose of steroids) dose of dexamethasone should be given, (not chloroquine) with the onset of respiratory symptoms, and if any need arises a course of antibiotics.
10. This will SAVE lot of lives.

Incubation Period

Incubation Period of Viral Diseases I call it, ICP for short. It is very important to estimate the incubation period of diseases, not only for epidemiological reasons and isolation but also for recognition of the virus. Icubation period is the time in between the time of exposure to the time of onset of symptoms and signs of the disease. Good old days for hepatitis we had only two hepatitis viruses, A and B but extensive studies fifty years ago revealed much more up to 20 or more and we lost interest and would focus only on B and D. This is true for Coronavirus, especially because it is coming out of animal kingdom of Chinese wet markets. I think Chinese wanted to hide facts for its own economic reasons and survival in the global market place. I give credit to President Trump at least even lately for quedtioning, the Chinese secrecy, if not their wisdom. All the others kept numb and did not question them. The WHO was an adversary on this regard. The Chinese are known for their wisdom but not the current bunch of Communist carders. The incubation periods are specific for viruses like small pox, chicken pox and measles, unlike bacterial infections of short duration. Even typhoid has 10 -14 day incubation petiod. Hepatitis B has up to 6 months incubation period and can spread by both inoculation and by faeco-oral route. We do not know the exact ICP of the 10 to 20 or more types of Coronaviruses. Each type has its own roughly exact ICP. Known the type by ICP may help the epidemiologists to plan ahead before catastrophe strikes. Immune antigen typinng takes a lot of painstaking studies and inevitable delay. I am against the 2 weeks blanket time period of isolation. With schools reopening and if there is a quick and rapid spread of the virus, if we are to gain headway, we need to isolate putative exposed contacts to, at least for a period of ICP plus a few more days of STRICT isolation. My bone of contention here is, if the incubation period is more than six weeks, this is most likely an enterovirus with more surreptitious spread spreading over years and not one summer or one winter (of discontent) of the current expectation of the doctors and politicians. There is anothet caveat here patients with various other diseases have to suffer patiently until WHO gets its act together before more blame will fall on them for inaction as opposed to timely action. For Ceylon the political euphoria will disappear into thin air, if they get their protocol incorrect. Judicious caution against the unintended paranoia that is required by those who are on the top management posts. Could we trust them since the election is over and done with it? What is happening in Australia and New Zealand is an eye opener. If it is a long incubation period enterovirus the streams will be contaminated with this virus including gardia lamblia, dinoflagellates and protista. Be vigilant. This virus has surprises in its fold.

Testing Anyline Typeface

Is is pretty good but needs some help and learning.
It is actually a scanner application.
Brainy workload in Digital World.
I am trying all typefaces including French so I delay my opinion, for the time being.

Nevertheless, I going to use it for some time.

Power Cuts

I is in my vivid memory that in 1989, then DJVP blasted three of the transformers near our house, the lady engineer told me this is the last I have in Kandy, any more blasts you have to buy a generator and generate electricity.
Sure, I did and I was the first to install a generator in our office and later in my home.
I was working for a foreign organization.
They were here to launch a satellite which India's RAW did not want.
India is the one who instigated DJVP and LTTE.
They lost two of their leaders as a result and we Kaditagamsnathan.
Coming to power cuts, I can remember then politicians telling, never more power cuts.
We have gone the full cycle and it is strange that very dame India is going to help us with coal power.
That will be the end of our forest and  hydroelectricity.
We never learn lessons from the past, India never was our friend.
The Muslim by descent
Azurudeen, the Indian captain was the only one who helped us when West Indians refused to travel here.
I was pretty happy for the descent of West Indians cricket who played politics instead of cricket.
The sad state of cricket today is the result of politics and not cricket of that day, people do not want to forget.

Tree is her home.

Tree is her home not water.

My yearly visitor

My yearly visitor
This one wants to share my chair.
I put her into the fish tank but she decided to climb the tree.
She is a tree dweller and once year come to lay eggs but usually late at night.
She decided to give me a photo opportunity, this time round in early afternoon.

Mathematical Analysis of Politics in Details

Mathematical Analysis of Politics in Details

1.Every thirds person did not bother to cast his or her vote.

In other words 3 out of ten.

 

2. Every third person does not have a representative of his or choice.

In other words 3 out of ten but two out of three have a representative of choice.

In other words 7 out of ten.

 

3. 12 million out of 16 million did bother to vote.

In other words 4 million stayed at home.

 

4. 5% out of the total 76% voting public had destroyed or incorrectly marked the ballot paper.

In other words 1 out of 20 does not give a scant regard to its validity (staying at home was a better option).

A (5%) statistically significant figure.

 

5. Election commissioner and his team has done a wonderful job of putting out this data accurately within 10 to 11 hours of counting which is a creditable task.

I wish our super-grade public servant Mahinda Deshapriya and his brother Sunanda Deshapriya (old time leftist politician) in political wilderness in USA happy retirement out of politics in Ceylon.

In a way, the voter has closed the door for democracy by his own wish for a long time to come.

You cannot complain but bite the teeth or dust, in return.

Active opposition is the live wire of democracy but that little kindle has extinguished, after 70 years of vibrant but eventful history of our politics.

 

ප්‍රතිඵලවලින් පසු ප්‍රතිඵල සෙවීම

නිමල් අබේසිංහ

මහ මැතිවරණයක් අහවරව පවතින මේ මොහොතේ ඒ පිළිබඳව විවිධ පාර්ශ්වයන්ගෙන් මැතිවරණ ප්‍රතිඵල ගැන විවිධාකාරයේ අර්ථ දැක්වීම් එළියට පැමිණෙමින් තිබේ.

ඔවුන් වෙතින් නැගෙන පළමු තර්කය ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදී ලබා ගත් ඡන්ද සංඛ්‍යාවට වඩා අඩු ඡන්ද සංඛ්‍යාවක් මහ මැතිවරණයේදී ලබාගෙන ඇති බවය. මහ මැතිවරණයේදී ලබාගත් ඡන්ද සංඛ්‍යාව වන 6853698 හා ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදී ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ලබා ගත් ඡන්ද සංඛ්‍යාව වන 6924255 ගත් විට එම සංඛ්‍යාවන්හි මුහුණතින් ගත් විට ඡන්ද ලක්ෂයක ප්‍රමාණයක් අඩුවී ඇති බව පෙනුණත් සැබැවින්ම අඩුවී ඇති බව පෙනෙන්නේ ඡන්ද 70557ක් බව පැහැදිලි වේ.

පරාජයක් නොවේ

මෙම අඩුව දක්නට ලැබුණද සැබැවින්ම එය ජනාධිපතිවරණය හා මහ මැතිවරණය සසඳන විට අඩුවීමක් නොවන බව පැහැදිලිය. ඊට හේතුවන්නේ ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදී ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂගේ සහායට සිටි තවත් දේශපාලන පක්ෂ කීපයක දායකත්වය සැපයූ බව දන්නා බැවිනි. එසේ සහාය දැක්වූවන් මෙවර මහ මැතිවරණයේදී තරග වැදුණේ තනි තනිවමය. එම පක්ෂ සහ ඔවුන් ලබා ගත් ඡන්ද සංඛ්‍යාව මෙසේ පෙළ ගැසිය හැකිය. ඊපීඩීපී 61464, අපේ ජන බලවේගය 67752, ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය 66572, තමිල් මක්කල් වඩිතලෙයි 67692 සහ ජාතික කොංග්‍රසය 34428 වශයෙනි. මෙම පක්ෂවල ඡන්ද එකතුව ඡන්ද 297908කි. මෙම පක්ෂවල ඡන්දද ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදී ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂට ලැබුණේ යැයි උපකල්පනය කළහොත් මහ මැතිවරණයේදී පොදු පෙරමුණ ලබා ගත් ඡන්ද සංඛ්‍යාව (6853693+297908) = 7151601කි. එනිසා කිසිවෙකු හෝ මෙවර මහ මැතිවරණයේදී පොදු ජන පෙරමුණට ඡන්ද අඩුවී ඇතැයි තර්කයක් නගතහොත් එය සත්‍යයක් නොවේ.

මෙම ඡන්ද ප්‍රතිඵල සමග දැකිය හැකි සුවිශේෂී ලක්ෂණයක් වන්නේ ජේ.ආර්. ජයවර්ධන විසින් 1978දී හඳුන්වා දුන් විධායක ජනාධිපති ධුරයේ බලතල කප්පාදු වූ මොහොතක එනම් 19 වැනි ව්‍යවස්ථාව පවතින අවස්ථාවේදී පොදුජන පෙරමුණට තුනෙන් දෙකක බලය හිමිවීමය.

යක්ෂයා බිහිසුණුද?

“ඡන්ද ප්‍රතිඵලය දකින විට ලංකාවේ අනාගතය ගැන ලංකාවේ මිනිස්සුන්ගේ සිතුම් පැතුම් ගැන ඇඟ හිරිවැටෙන බියක් දැනේ.”
මේ ඡන්ද ප්‍රතිඵලය ගැන ලංකාවේ සුප්‍රසිද්ධ වෙබ් අඩවියක පළවූ අදහසකි. මෙරට මැතිවරණවලදී ඡන්දදායකයන්ගේ හැසිරීම් රටාව ගැන නිරීක්ෂණයක යෙදුණහොත් මේ මැතිවරණයේ ඡන්ද ප්‍රතිඵල ගැන අමුතු බියක් මේ මොහොතේ ඇතිකර ගැනීමේ වුවමනාවක් නැත.

එක් දහස් නවසිය හැත්තෑවේ මහ මැතිවරණයේදී සිරිමාවෝ බණ්ඩාරනායක ප්‍රමුඛ සමගි පෙරමුණේ ප්‍රධාන සටන් පාඨය වූයේ හඳෙන් හෝ හාල් ගෙනත් දෙනවා යන්නය. එයට මේ රටේ ඡන්දදායකයන් කොතරම් වශීකෘත වූයේද යත් ඔවුන් නැවතුණේ සමගි පෙරමුණට තුනෙන් දෙකක බලයක් ලබාදෙමිනි.

ඊළඟ අවස්ථාව නවසිය හැත්තෑ හතේ මහ මැතිවරණයය. සමගි පෙරමුණ ගෙන ගිය පාලනය ගැන කලකිරීමට පත්ව සිටි ජනතාවට ජේ.ආර්. ප්‍රමුඛ එජාපය පැවසුවේ සෑම අයෙකුටම සතියකට ධනය රාත්තල් අටක් නොමිලේ දෙන පොරොන්දුවය. එයින් මුසපත් වූවෝ ජේ.ආර්. ජයවර්ධනට සැලකුවේ දෝත පුරා හයෙන් පහක බලයක් පිරිනමමිනි.
ඉන් අනතුරුව මෙරට මැතිවරණ ඉතිහාසයේ සුවිශේෂී සන්ධිස්ථානයක් වනුයේ 2020 අගෝස්තු මහ මැතිවරණයය. එය වඩාත් වැදගත් වනුයේ මෙතෙක් කිසිදු මැතිවරණයකදී කිසිදු පක්ෂයක් තමන්ට පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ තුනෙන් දෙකක බලයක් ඉල්ලා නොසිටි වාතාවරණයක් තුළ 2020 මහ මැතිවරණයේදී තමන්ට තුනෙන් දෙකක බලයක් ලබා දෙන්නැයි ප්‍රසිද්ධියේම ඡන්දදායකයන්ගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටියේ මහින්ද සහ ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ හවුලය. මේ වනවිට එකී ඉල්ලීම රටවැසියා විසින් ඉටුකර දී තිබේ. පොදු ජන පෙරමුණට තුනෙන් දෙකක් නොවූවත් ඊට ආසන්නම මන්ත්‍රී ධුර සංඛ්‍යාවක් (මන්ත්‍රී ධුර 145ක්) ලබාදී ඇති අතර පොදු ජන පෙරමුණට සහාය දක්වන පක්ෂ ලබා ගත් මන්ත්‍රී ධුර සංඛ්‍යාවද සලකා බලන විට මුළු මන්ත්‍රී ධුර සංඛ්‍යාවද සලකා බලන විට මුළු මන්ත්‍රී ධුර සංඛ්‍යාව තුනෙන් දෙකද ඉක්මවා තිබේ. මෙම පසුබිම තුළ ඇතැමෙකු මේ ජයග්‍රහණය සම්බන්ධයෙන් බියක් දක්වන බවක්ද පෙනෙන්නට ඇත.
සමහරවිට මේ බිය දනවනු ඇත්තේ රාජපක්ෂවරුන්ගේ පූර්වාදර්ශයන් තරම්ම යහපත් නොව බැවින් විය හැකිය. එහෙත් මෙවර ජයග්‍රහණය ඔස්සේ එබඳු ක්‍රියාකාරකම් කෙරෙහි යොමුවන්නට තරම් රාජපක්ෂවරු අඥාන නොවනු ඇතැයි සිතිය හැකිය. එයට හේතුව මෙවර ජනතාව ඔවුන් කෙරෙන් අපේක්ෂාසහගත වන දේවල් ඉටු කිරීම හෝ නොකිරීම මත තමන්ගේ අනාගතය තීන්දු වන බව ඔවුන් අත්දැකීමෙන්ම දන්නා බැවිනි. එලෙසම ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ මැතිවරණ ඉතිහාසයේ එවැනි සංසිද්ධීන්ද ඇති බැවිනි.
අභියෝග ජය ගැනීම
මැතිවරණය ආසන්න සමයේදී මෙන්ම මැතිවරණයට පෙරදීත් රට තුළ පැන නැගුණු ප්‍රධාන ප්‍රශ්න දෙකක් විය. ඉන් පළමුවැන්න සුප්‍රසිද්ධ එම්සීසී ගිවිසුමය. ඇමරිකාව හා ශ්‍රී ලංකාව අතර ඇතිකර ගැනීමට යෝජනාවෙමින් තිබූ මෙම ගිවිසුම කෙරෙහි රටෙහි ජනයා තුළ දැඩි විරෝධයක් මතුවීම හේතු කොටගෙන එවකට පැවති භාරකාර රජය ලෙසින් රාජපක්ෂ ආණ්ඩුවට මෙම ගිවිසුම සම්බන්ධයෙන් නැගුණ ජනතා විරෝධය ප්‍රබල විය. ගිවිසුම සම්බන්ධයෙන් විමර්ශනය කිරීමට කමිටුවක්ද පත් කිරීමට ඔවුනට සිදුවූයේ එනිසාය. ආර්ථික විද්‍යාව පිළිබඳ උගතෙකු වූ ආචාර්ය ලලිතසිරි ගුණරුවන්ගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් ක්‍රියාත්මක වුණ මේ කමිටු වාර්තාව අනුවද එම්සීසී ගිවිසුම ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට යහපත් ආකාරයෙන් බලනොපාන බවට කරුණු ඉදිරිපත්ව ඇත.
මැතිවරණ සමයේදීම පැන නැගුණු ඊළඟ බරපතළ ප්‍රශ්නය කොළඹ වරායේ නැගෙනහිර පර්යන්තය සම්බන්ධ ගැටලුවය. එය ඉන්දියාවට පැවරීමට යන්නේය යන කාරණය මත සියලු වරාය සේවකයන්ගේ දැඩි විරෝධයක් මතුවූ අතර එයට අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂට ඍජුවම මැදිහත්වීමටද සිදුවිය. ආණ්ඩුව පත්වීම සමගම කුළුඳුලේම මේ ප්‍රබල ප්‍රශ්න දෙකට මුහුණදීමට ඔවුනට සිදුවනු අනිවාර්යය. විශේෂිතම කාරණය වන්නේ රාජපක්ෂවරුන්ගේ ජයග්‍රහණ උදෙසා දායක වූ පිරිස් බොහොමයක්ම එම්සීසී ගිවිසුම අත්සන් කරනවාට මෙන්ම කොළඹ වරායේ නැගෙනහිර පර්යන්තය ඉන්දියාවට පවරනවාට විරුද්ධවූවන් වීමය.
කිසියම් අයුරකින් මෙම ගිවිසුම් අත්සන් කිරීමට නව ආණ්ඩුව පෙළඹුණහොත් කුමක් වනු ඇතිද? එහිදී මේ ගිවිසුම්වල තිබෙන මෙරටට අයහපත් ලෙස බලපාන කොන්දේසි සංශෝධනය කර මේ ගිවිසුම් අත්සන් කරන බවට ආණ්ඩුව පාර්ශ්වයෙන් ප්‍රකාශයට පත්වීමේ ඉඩක්ද තිබේ. එහෙත් එවැනි හුරතල් කතාවලට රැවටෙන්නට තරම් රාජපක්ෂවරුන් බලයට පත් කළ පිරිස් සූදානම් වේවිද? එය ආණ්ඩුව අනාගතයේදී මුහුණ දෙන ප්‍රබල ගැටලුවකි.
කොවිඞ් 19 වසංගතය හේතුවෙන් මේ වනවිටත් රටේ ආර්ථිකය පවතින්නේ පතුළ නොපෙනන නාරාවළකය. කොවිඞ් 19හි බලපෑම නිසා රටේ විදේශ ආදායම හොඳටම පල්ලම් බැස තිබේ. විදේශ ශ්‍රමිකයන්ගෙන් ලැබෙන ආදායම, ඇඟලුම් කර්මාන්තයෙන් ලැබෙන ආදායම මෙන්ම සංචාරක කර්මාන්තයෙන් ලැබෙන ආදායම ඇනහිටි තත්ත්වයක පවතී. මේ හේතුව නිසා රටේ විදේශ සංචිත පෙට්ටගමේ පවතින විදේශ මුදල් ප්‍රමාණය සොච්චමක් වී ඇත. ලෝකයේම කොවිඞ් තත්ත්වය නිසා ඇතිවුණ ආර්ථිකය කඩා වැටීම මෙරටට එන බලපෑමද සුළුපටු නොවේ. එම ආර්ථික දුර්විපාක 2021 වනතුරුත් බලපාන බව නොරහසක් වන්නේ ඒ බැව් ජාත්‍යන්තර ආර්ථික විශේෂඥයන්ද අනතුරු අඟවා ඇති බැවිනි.
මෙකී අටෝ රාශියක් ප්‍රශ්න අබිමුව තුනෙන් දෙකක බලයක් ගත් රාජපක්ෂවරුන් කුමක් කරනු ඇතිද යන්න වඩාත් හොඳින් බලා සිටින්නේ ඔවුන්ට ඡන්දය දුන් බහුතරයක් ජනතාවම බව ඔවුන් අමතක කළ යුතු නැත. ලිපිය ලියන මොහොත වන 2020 අගෝස්තු 12 වන විට නව ආණ්ඩුවේ කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලය පත්කර හමාරය. 19 ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව ප්‍රකාරව පත් කළ හැකි උපරිම කැබිනට් අමාත්‍ය ධුර සංඛ්‍යාව 30ක් වුවත් රාජපක්ෂවරුන් සිය කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලය ඇමතිවරු 26කට සීමා කර තිබේ.

කැබිනට් අමාත්‍යවරුන්ගේ සංඛ්‍යාව 26ක් වුවත් රාජ්‍ය ඇමතිවරුන් 39ක්ද පත් කරන බව ප්‍රකාශයට පත්ව ඇත. ඒ අනුව ඇමති ධුර සංඛ්‍යාව 65ක් වී තිබේ. තිබෙන තොරතුරු අනුව තවත් නියෝජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යවරුන් සංඛ්‍යාවක්ද පත් කිරීමට නියමිතය. මේ සා විසල් ඇමතිවරුන් සංඛ්‍යාවක් පත් කිරීම තුළ සිය සගයන් සංතුෂ්ටියට පත් කිරීම උදෙසා සිදුකරන්නක් සේ පෙනේ. මෙය රටෙහි පවතින ආර්ථික අර්බුදය හමුවේ රටට ඔරොත්තු නොදෙන්නකි.

රාජපක්ෂවරුන්ට බලය පැවරූ අයගේ අභිමතාර්ථයන්ට පටහැනිවීමක්ද වේ. පොදු ජන පෙරමුණට බලය පැවරූ පිරිස මේ කෙරෙහි කුමන ප්‍රතිචාරයක් දක්වාවිද යන්න තවමත් තීරණය කළ නොහැක.

ඕනෑම අයකුට ලැබෙන අසීමිත බලය බොහෝ විට තමන්ගේම විනාශයට හේතුවන බවට කියමනක් තිබේ. මේ බලයෙන් ඉදිමී වරක් අත පුච්චා ගත් රාජපක්ෂවරුන් මෙවර ලබා ගත් බලයෙන්ද ඉදිමී කටයුතු කළහොත් එය ඔවුන්ගේ විනාශය කැඳවා ගැනීමක් වන බව නොසලකා කටයුතු කරාවිද?

එජාපයට කුමක් වේද?

මෙවර මහ මැතිවරණයේදී අන්ත අසරණ වූ දේශපාලන පක්ෂය වූයේ එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයය. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ පැරණිතම හා ප්‍රධාන ධාරාවේ දේශපාලන පක්ෂය වන එජාපය මෙවර මැතිවරණයේදී නොසිතූ වීරු පරාජයක් උරුම කරගත්තේය. මෙවර මෙන් නොවුණත් ඇස්.ඩබ්ලිව්.ආර්.ඩී. බණ්ඩාරනායක එජාපයෙන් ඉවත් වී ගිය පසුව පැවති 1956 මහ මැතිවරණයේදී එජාපයට උරුම වූයේ අන්ත පරාජයකි. එවැනිම තත්ත්වයකට 1970 මැතිවරණයේදීද ගොදුරු වන්නට එජාපයට සිදුවිය. මේ අවස්ථා දෙකෙහිදීම එවකට සිටි නායක කාරකාදීහු එජාපය යළි නැඟිටුවන්නට සමත් වූහ. 1994න් පසුව එජාපයේ ගමන් මග එතරම් සාර්ථක වූවක් නොවේ. 2015දී ඔවුන්ට ආණ්ඩුවක් පිහිටුවන්නට හැකි වුවත් එය අනුන්ගේ අත්වාරුවේ පිහිටෙන් අත්පත් කර ගත්තකි. 19 වැනි ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය වැනි ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය සම්මත කරගත්තද එය අබල දුබල ආණ්ඩුවකි. ඒ බැව් වඩාත් පැහැදිලිවන්නේ මෙවර එජාපයට හිමිවුණු පරාජයෙනි. පෙනෙන අන්දමට නම් උහුලාගත නොහැකි පැරදුමකි. එහෙත් ඔවුන්ටද යළි හිස එසවීමේ හිඩැසක් මැතිවරණ ප්‍රතිඵල තුළම ප්‍රදර්ශනය වේ. ඒ වෙන කිසිවක් නොව මෙවර මහ මැතිවරණයේදී ලියාපදිංචි ඡන්දදායකයන් අතුරින් ඡන්දය භාවිත නොකළ පිරිස ගැන සලකන විටය. එය ගණනකින් 3920493කි. ඒ අතරේ මෙවර කවරදාකටවත් වැඩියෙන් ප්‍රතික්ෂේප වූ ඡන්ද සංඛ්‍යාව ඉහළ ගොස් තිබේ. එම සංඛ්‍යාව 744373කි. ඉකුත් ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදී ප්‍රතික්ෂේපිත ඡන්ද ප්‍රමාණය වන 135452ක් හා සලකන විට හය ගුණයක පමණ වැඩිවීමකි. මේ කරුණු සලකන විට විශාල ඡන්ද සංඛ්‍යාවක් මෙවර භාවිත වී නැත. එජාපයේ ඡන්ද නිධානය ඇත්තේ එහිය. මේ තුළ අවම වශයෙන් ලක්ෂ තිහක පමණවත් එජාප ඡන්ද සංඛ්‍යාවක් තිබිය හැකි බව පෙනේ. මේ නිධානය ගොඩ ගැනීමට එජාපයේ නායකයන් සමත් වේ නම් ඔවුනටද අළු ගසා බසා දමා නැවත ශ්‍රී ලාංකේය දේශපාලනයේ නියැලෙන්නට ඉඩක් ඇත. එය ඔවුන්ගේ හැකියාව මත පමණක් තීන්දු වන බව අපට කිව හැකිය.

සජබය කොයිබටද?

සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාසගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් යුතු සමගි ජන බලවේගය මෙවර මැතිවරණයේ ලබා ගත් ඡන්ද සංඛ්‍යාව 2771980කි. එය ඔහු ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදී ලබා ගත් ඡන්ද සංඛ්‍යාව වන 5564239න් අඩකටත් අඩුය. එනම් ඡන්ද 2792259කි. මෙම ඡන්ද ප්‍රමාණය අඩු වුවත් ඒවා එජාප ඡන්දම නොවේ. ඒ මන්දයත් ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදී සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාසට සහාය දුන් පක්ෂ මෙවර වෙනම තරග කර ඡන්ද ලබාගෙන ඇති බැවිනි. එම පක්ෂ වන ඉලංගෙයි තමිල් අරසුකච්චි, අභිල ඉලංගෙයි තමිල් කොන්ග්‍රස්, එජාපය, තමිල් මත්තල් වඩිකලෙයි පුලික්කල්, මුස්ලිම් ජාතික සංවිධානය සමස්ත ලංකා මහජන කොංග්‍රසය, ශ්‍රී ලංකා මුස්ලිම් කොංග්‍රසය යන පක්ෂ ලබාගෙන ඇති ඡන්ද ප්‍රමාණය 1465633කි. මෙම සංඛ්‍යාවට සජිත් මෙවර ලබා ගත් ඡන්ද සංඛ්‍යාව වන 2771980 එකතු කළ විට මුළු ඡන්ද සංඛ්‍යාව 4237613කි. එයින් එජාපය ලබා ගත් ඡන්ද 249436කි. අඩු කළ විට මුළු ඡන්ද සංඛ්‍යාව 3988177කි.
මේ අනුව සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාසට මෙවර ලැබී ඇති ඡන්ද සංඛ්‍යාවට සහාය වූ අනෙක් පක්ෂවල ඡන්ද සංඛ්‍යාවද එකතු කර ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදී ලද ඡන්ද සංඛ්‍යාවෙන් අඩු කළ විට (5564239-3988177) ලැබෙන උත්තරය 1576062කි. ඒ ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදී සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාසට ලැබී මෙවර මහ මැතිවරණයේදී නොලැබුණු ඡන්ද සංඛ්‍යාව වේ.
විපක්ෂයක් ලෙස සමගි ජන බලවේගය කුමන ආකාරයෙන් කටයුතු කරාවිද යන්න ගැන අපට තවමත් අනාවැකි පවසන්නට නොහැකිය. එහෙත් ඔවුන්ගේ ඉදිරි ක්‍රියාදාමය අනුව ඔවුන්ගේ ගමන් මග තීරණය වනු ඇති බව නම් ඉඳුරාම පැවසිය හැකි වේ.