Mahil Muthu

“An unexamined life is not worth living.” so I enjoy examining!

[Hanuman Banda @Hanuman_Banda]

159 votes in the parliament. Change the penal code and the constitution please. @anuradisanayake @Dr_HariniA. If you fear Baithkshikawa, you will lose. You are already losing being afraid. What happened to the fearless JVP spirit of the 80s era?

[Chaminda Dias @chami9539]

Remeber the outrage over the porn link in a text book?

Every political leader and their mothers son had an opinion.

Below is the outrage over the alleged rape of a minor by a powerful priest from all major leaders of political parties including the NPP.

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Yeah... I count find any either. Please share if you find any.

#SriLanka

[Gayara De Silva @gayaradesilva]

What is happening today is NOT remotely the same as what happened under Gota.

In 2022, many countries faced the same conditions without ending in sovereign default. The real issue under Gota was macroeconomic mismanagement:
- artificially pegging the rupee
- draining reserves
- reckless tax cuts
- excessive money printing
- delayed IMF engagement, import bans, and denial around the scale of the crisis.

Don’t rewrite history with twisted narratives.

External shocks expose vulnerabilities. Bad policy management determines whether those shocks become a full economic collapse.

As for today, yes excess market liquidity, weak investor confidence (we are still a stabilizing economy), dollar demand and lack of FDIs are all part of the current pressure. But that still does NOT make it structurally identical to 2022.

Today’s conditions:
- our reserves are in a better position
- the exchange rate is more flexible
- the IMF framework exists
- CBSL credibility is far significantly higher today (Cabraal was a fool).

Sri Lanka remains highly vulnerable to geopolitical shocks because we are still an import dependent economy, especially on energy. That reality does not disappear in near term because governments change.

Global oil shocks are not due to stabilize anytime soon either. The market data already shows this. There is more to be done, but one next step the government should take to protect reserves and naturally control demand is to remove the fuel subsidy. Highly unpopular move, people will scream and shout, but cost reflective fuel pricing is important.

People really need to stop comparing every currency movement to 2022 as if all economic conditions are identical.
You are not helping the country with misinformed narratives like this.
You are also publicly displaying your lack of understanding of what’s happening in the market, or geopolitically.

[Namini Wijedasa @nimilamalee]

I am told that Athula Ranagala, attorney-at-law, and a group will represent her.

[Rehan Jayawickreme @RehanJayawick]

Mangala Samaraweera was heavily attacked for warning that the misconduct of a few clergy members would eventually damage the dignity of the Sangha itself.

Looking at the scandals and arrests making headlines today, was he really wrong?

#lka

[The Patriot. @godfreypy1]

“SJB sources said that @EranWick was to be suspended from the party for breaching its policy”. Eran has now quit the SJB’s committees, and the Daily FT reports
https://t.co/TcRIVytQH2 that the party is effectively mounting a witch‑hunt to victimise Eran Wickramaratne over a decision that enjoys broad public support. So far, only @LihiniFernando has publicly backed him, while liberals such as @HarshadeSilvaMP , @KabirHashim4 , and @Chamathka_0815 have remained conspicuously silent.

[Chanchala Samaraweera Gunewardena @Chanch_SL]

Not crazy at all. Was desperately needed - thank you for being a the doctor we need. Your content and you being yourself, including a woman leading these conversations matters greatly.

[Mahil Muthu @Mahilmuthu]

@NewsCenterLk Hi @grok who owns NewsCenterLK in Sri Lanka!

[Mahil Muthu @Mahilmuthu]

@NewsCenterLk Hey @grok, who owns https://t.co/5ibXNvHUvY?

[Yasuni Manikkage @ManikkageYasuni]

@Dr_HariniA,Prime Minister of Sri Lanka,shattered a glass ceiling tht many thought ws unbreakable.

Harassment she’s enduring isn’t just personal,
It exposes the ugly misogyny still rotting at the core of our society.
She owes no shrinking to soothe fragile egos-male or female!

[Ahamed Nishadh @ahamednishadh]

So basically they are asking govt to shut down legitimate businesses so that they can rip people off by charging customers 1500 for a 250 rupee ride??

Its high time govt brings proper regulations and enforcement to control these thugs and also the apps to ensure level field.

[Dinidu de Alwis @dinidu]

Please Stop: An open letter to Jamila Husain, Editor in Chief of the Daily Mirror

Dear Jamila,

It was somewhere late 2008 or early 2009 I crossed the corridor from Sunday Times and walked into the Daily Mirror newsroom. Then editor of the Daily Mirror Champ(ika) (Liyanarachchi) had wanted a full assurance from me that I'm coming with the approval and blessing of Anthony (David) and Sinha (Ratnatunge), because she didn't want to be told she's poaching - during my first sit down with Champika I explained how, as much as I venerate the Sunday Times, I wanted to get the daily-news experience. The Daily Mirror was the best English daily.

Three years prior, spending a large chunk of my measely Rs 6,000 salary from BCIS, I would still buy the DM because it was a good paper and I wanted to some day work there.

I can't remember if Champi introduced me to you and Easy (Easwaren Rutnam) or pointed you two out from inside her cubicle, but you and Easy were the ones I was told to get help, stories, contacts, pointers. I did, and you both helpfully obliged. I remember how you helped me turn a one-line story about an assault of an old woman into a two para bit.

I don't remember if you were there when I got my first lead of Pillayan's secretary shit dead, but vague recollection is that you were the one who sent me to that.

You left then I left and fast forward ten years, amidst rumours of a leadership change at the newspaper, you called and asked me if I'd be interested in coming back. You had found out I was thinking of leaving my job at the British High Commission, and you were keen to bring the paper back to how it was earlier. We kept talking over the weeks, but then between Covid cremations and elections I decided to stick around for a bit and not leave.

The point I'm trying to get to, is this: you were a mentor. I looked upto you. You helped, you taught. I learnt. You consoled me when I had to share bylines for big leads with the police reporter who had added two lines to my 1,000-word lead.

Ten years later, you made me want to actually leave the job I was doing and come to Daily Mirror with a significant pay cut, because you told me you wanted to make the paper like it was 'back in the day'.

Then when I tweeted at Namal about some airport thing you just snapped. Then you kept snapping until one day out of the blue you called hysterically in a fit of rage to ask if my 'downstairs' worked or my critique of the Daily Mirror and you is some complex due to an erectile dysfunction.

In a lot of people's eyes, you're just the person who dragged the Daily Mirror into the gutter. But for me it's different and far more painful. You're the person who showed me the where the metaphorical ropes, gave hope that good news reporting may be possible again, and then went on to not just drive the paper to the ground but then stamp on it on a daily basis.

I beg of you (and Sujan) - please stop.

Either the two of you don't care about the damage you're causing to the Sri Lankan civic space - in which case you're sociopaths; or you don't know about the damage you're causing to the Sri Lankan civic space - in which case you shouldn't be running a newspaper stand, let alone a newspaper.

It pains me to see that both Ranjit (Wijewardena) and Lalith (Allahkkoon) have to see what a trashy rag their one time pride and joy has become.

Stop. Give it to someone who can. Do that service to the country.

With love, Dinidu

[Chaminda Dias @chami9539]

For a week now, a familiar mob has been shouting that the Trincomalee coastline is temple land already given by Mahinda Rajapaksa, waving around PDFs and photocopies to make their case. They lied and used that lie to manufacture hate.

The actual documents show something entirely different.

In July 2023, Rev. Mihidupura Maithree Kalyanawansa Thero received Permit No. CCCRM/ADC/6578, which authorised only the construction of a temporary 127 sq ft hut, not ownership, not a temple, not a land grant, and certainly not any form of presidential transfer relating to the specific site in question.

The permit conditions are explicit. Construction must follow the approved plan with mo extensions or additions and no blocking the coastline. Crucially, the permit itself states... "This permit will not be considered the ownership of the land."

The Survey Department doc goes even further. The land parcel relevant to this construction is officially recorded as State land, categorised as "Sea Beach."

Its boundaries are entirely coastal.

North – Sea Beach
South – Sea Beach
East – Sea
West – Fort Frederick Road

There is no recorded ownership of this land by any temple. The only mention of the temple anywhere in the survey is in a remark referring to a possible long-term lease for a different 40-perch area... a consideration, not a transfer of title, and entirely unrelated to the coastal buffer zone where the 127 sq ft structure was approved. Nothing in the documents relating to the location of this construction shows any form of presidential grant or ownership transfer to the temple.

What actually happened is straightforward. The monk exceeded the approved 127 sq ft plan. A field inspection confirmed the violation and the Coast Conservation Department cancelled the permit, declared the construction unauthorized, ordered its removal, and warned that failure to comply would result in demolition and the cost being recovered from him under the Coast Conservation Act. A subsequent letter from the Ministry of Environment in 2025 reinforces this position.

And let me say this clearly... The reason I looked into this myself is because I needed clarity in my own mind. When there is no clarity, there is conjecture and that leads to misinformation, disinformation, and manufactured outrage.

Thanks to @shabeer_kamil, who did the legwork on the ground and helped gather these documents, I now understand the issue fully.

Everything the mob shouted was BS. They were neither defending Buddhism nor protecting heritage. All they were doing was justifying an illegal land grab on State coastal land, using religion as a convenient shield.

If you spent the last week attacking minorities, insulting journalists, and howling about "temple land," you owe the country an apology. You incited disharmony on the basis of a lie.

Watch for how this will be weaponized tomorrow at the opposition rally.

#SriLanka
#AccountabilityProjectLK

[Chaminda Dias @chami9539]

Balangoda Kashyapa is one of the priests involved. 😂

He has gone a long way from his own temple to start a Daham Pasala.

Some excellent points made by Tharindu here.

This is mischief... And not the playful kind because someone is trying to ignite a powder keg.

NPP walked into the trap, SJB trafficking in it and Namal and MR suddenly visiting priests and temples ahead of their 21st rally.

Think. #SriLanka

https://t.co/O4pt0MnBJl

[Dinidu de Alwis @dinidu]

Oh fuck off Malcolm.

[Chaminda Dias @chami9539]

Utter condescending garbage… from an agenda driven rag of a newspaper pretending to do journalism.

Lecturing the reader, lecturing the government because that's what gives her a sense of superiority I suppose.

But take it from someone who's been in the tourism industry since 1997... this government isn't perfect, but what they have done is no different from what's been done before.

When the Rajapaksas were busy building white elephants instead of fixing BIA, where were her history lessons then?

Complete bullshit. Revealing exactly who she is... a pathetic excuse for an editor, and a puppet for the Rajapaksas.

#SriLanka

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Actor Jeff Daniels on Donald Trump: "We’re supposed to elect the best of us, not the worst of us. He’s everything that’s wrong with not just America but being a human being.”

RETWEET if you stand with Daniels against Trump!

[Mahil Muthu @Mahilmuthu]

@ManikkageYasuni Common AKD; you should not reverse good policy based on a vocal fringe!

[Yasuni Manikkage @ManikkageYasuni]

Why?
Why can't we, as a nation, take even a single step forward?
I had hoped that a government with a two-thirds majority would have the strength & vision to deliver meaningful change - Real progress that uplifts every citizen of this nation. 🇱🇰