Following the ban on the use of mobile phones by students during school hours, the Minister of Education Susil Premjayanth has directed authorities to provide schools without telephone facilities with CDM phones.

This would enable students to contact their parents in case of emergencies and principals have been directed that students be allowed the use of school phones in emergencies.

This was revealed to The Island by former Deputy Director of Education, Bingiriya Region, W. M. Balasooriya. He said that at present 90 per cent of schools countrywide have telephone facilities.

A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- and τόπος, alternatively, cacotopia, kakotopia, cackotopia, or anti-utopia) is the vision of a society in which conditions of life are miserable and characterized by poverty, oppression, war, violence, disease, pollution, nuclear fallout and/or the abridgement of human rights, resulting in widespread unhappiness, suffering, and other kinds of pain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia

http://www.divaina.com/2009/08/08/news25.html

A new Indian TV show goes where no show has gone before, and stirs up a controversy. It’s a reality show where participants (all consenting adults) are asked, on air, questions such as: Have you ever had an affair with a married man? Have you ever enjoyed watching a male stripper take off his clothes at a party? Have you ever had surgery to physically enhance your appearance?

Shhhhhh! Everyone is talking about it, and questions are asked even in Parliament. They have held animated debates, arguing whether the Indian version of the hit American show Moment of Truth threatens India’s “moral and cultural values”.
The culture wallahs are alarmed. The usual refrain of ban-ban-ban is heard. The scenario so far is similar to what unfolds in Sri Lanka…

Then, it diverges. Maturity and common sense kick in. The federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, tells parliament: “I am a woman, a mother and a grandmother, and I am concerned about the issues, as all members are, and to see that the values we grew up with do not get eroded”. BUT she adds that there is strong sensitivity in the media against government control, and the government is evolving a consensus that could lead to the formation of an independent regulator.

As BBC Online reports: “There are many in the media, as well ordinary people, who say the MPs need to focus more on the pressing issues of the country’s social and economic development, rather dwelling so much on the morality of TV shows.”

Read full story at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8173180.stm

Or go to the website of the show: http://www.starplus.in/sachkasaamna/index.asp

1) Couples found kissing under an umbrella will have their umbrella confiscated and their lips sealed with super glue for not less than a period of six months.

2) Perversion will be defined by law as any sexual act that requires enough energy to regenerate a self-winding wrist watch.

3) Any individual who has been convicted of bestiality or sodomy will be required by law to wear a dog collar while mixing in public.

4) It will be considered a felony with a five year jail term for exhibiting a vasectomy scar to any female other than your wife.

5) Any sexual act that “burns ones eyebrows or pubic hair, leaves the tip of one’s nose bruised or results in bite marks to any part of one’s anatomy will be considered a criminal offence.

6) A minimum of eight years rigorous imprisonment will be the punishment for any man convicted of weighing his genitals in mixed company.

7) A fine of Rupees 5000/- will be prescribed for anyone who tosses confetti in the air while reaching a sexual climax.

8) A gynaecologist’s hands will be considered deadly weapons and will have to be registered like firearms with the police department.

9) Ten years imprisonment will be the punishment for anyone engaged in the manufacture, sale, distribution or use of contraceptives and aphrodisiacs.

10) Any orgasm that registers on a Richter scale will be considered a crime against nature and will be punishable by not more than six months of solitary confinement.

11) It will be unlawful to wear a purple shirt, a pink trouser and white shoes while seducing a fashion designers daughter.

12) Teenagers will be required to sleep with both hands cuffed to the bed posts until they reach marriageable age.

13) An unmarried man who is found performing oral sex in a shopping cart in any ‘Sathosa’ supermarket automatically becomes ineligible for food stamps.

14) It will be against the law for an unmarried woman to own, manage or work in a sperm bank.

15) Any woman who arouses herself with a vegetable or any foreign object will be hanged.

16) Any soldier who dies while having intercourse with a prostitute will not be buried in a military cemetery with full military honours.

17) The death penalty will be invoked on anyone who inflates a condom at a children’s birthday party.

18) Any intercourse that doesn’t result in pregnancy will be deemed unlawful.

19) Anyone convicted of having sexual relations with the dead will not be legally permitted to celebrate Halloween.

20) The removal of the price tag from a water bed will be considered a misdemeanour. The act automatically becomes a felony if one happens to be having intercourse on the water bed at that time.

Join The Crusade To Abolish Entertainment In Sri Lanka!

Radio, Television, IPods, Mobile Phones, Internet and Movie Theaters are ruining our great nation by encouraging us to escape from the stark realities of life!
Too much time and money is wasted on such useless pastimes. We must wake up before it is too late and use this time and money for something really worthwhile, or face the ultimate destruction of our 2500 year old culture!

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* Abduct famous tele drama stars so that they won’t be able to complete future episodes!

* Picket mobile phone sales centres and call for a ban on the sale of phones with music and video facilities!

* Hide your teenagers IPod and destroy his/her phone charger!

* Protest outside movie theaters and detonate parcel bombs in ‘Internet Cafes!’

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Join THE ANTI ENTERTAINMENT LEAGUE OF SRI LANKA today and fight against modern entertainment where ever you find it!

OUR MOTTO: “DOWN WITH HIP HOP! LONG LIVE JANA GEE!”

Now what would the government do if this child’s phone was found while at home by her mother with whatever it contained.. the only difference would have been the place of death and the use of something else instead of the school tie?

The fault cannot be just attributed to the school, its principal, teachers or prefects, as it mostly lies with the parents who did not know what their only child was doing with the phone given by them (or by her BF?)..