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Parents, players, coaches and admins
It's not just in 'clinical studies' that there's 'conflict of interest' There’s something very basic in any competitive activity ruled by, well, rules and fair play: zero tolerance of...
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Dimensions of a 'Sri Lanka First' policy regime
Pic courtesy www.dailymirror.lk Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Admiral (Rtd) Jayanath Colombage, said quite a mouthful when he said Sri Lanka has an ‘India First’ foreign policy. He didn’t...
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Trump or Biden: the world needn't hold its breath
According to estimates based on previous patterns and polls, around 60 million citizens of the USA will go to the polls on Tuesday the 3rd of November, 2020 to help select a president of their choice....
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Ajith the Indomitable
A long, long time ago, in a letter to the editor of a Sinhala newspaper, a reader spoke about a group of young men ridiculing an elderly person. The reader was probably old. The title of his piece was...
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The Chaminda Vaas Principle: always look to improve
There’s not much cricket being played these days. There’s Zimbabwe in Pakistan. There’s the IPL. I hardly ever watch cricket but do like to know what’s happening internationally. Checking on the IPL...
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A new constitution, seriously?
Not that public opinion was sought for the 19th! Crisis. This is interestingly a word that at some level warms the cockles of a politician’s heart. Governments can point to calamities and pooh-pooh...
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Sean Connery, his many faces and one that I will keep
Illustration: Aysha Maryam CassimThere are unanswerable questions. This, for example: When voracious readers die why is it that their mortal remains do not turn into so many pages that will fly in all...
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Reflection-conspiracies
Somewhere in the Eastern Province. Somewhere in the Dry Zone, so called. A tank. A swing. A capture and that which resists all capture. If the above was a brief for a photographer, delivery would...
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ජයන්ත ජයමුණි ද සිල්වා -- ප්රඥාවේ අවියක්
මීට අවුරුදු තිහකට ආසන්න කාලයකට පෙර තරුණයින් පිරිසක් මාතර පල්ලිමුල්ලේ පිහිටි ආනන්දාරාමයට එකතුවූයේ දේශපාලනය ගැන සංවාද කිරීමටය. ඔවුන්ගේ අරමුණ වූයේ දේශපාලන සංවිධානයක් ගොඩනැගීමයි. ඉතිහාසය, ආර්ථික...
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Jayantha Jayamuni De Silva, a weapon of wisdom
Almost thirty years ago a bunch of young people, mostly undergraduates, spent a few days in a small temple in Matara. Anandaramaya. Pallimulla, Matara. They had gathered to discuss politics with a view...
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Let's be sober about the 'Superhero Gambit'
Karthik Krishnaswamy has posed an interesting question in an article titled ‘The Superhero Gamble’: Where would the Delhi Capitals be without Marcus Stoinis? He then offers the obvious answer, ‘[the...
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The 19th, 20th and judicial appointments
Draconian. Dictatorial. Authoritarian. Hitler-like. These are the words that were used when Gotabaya Rajaakssa first announced the decision to contest, throughout the election campaign and even now,...
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A child will give childhood, all over again
Everyone has had a childhood. Not all childhoods are pretty, made of smiles and laughter, ribbons and toys, kite-flying and paper boats. There’s wonderment. There are tears. Ups and downs. Good days...
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Terry Nichols introduced me to amazing newspapers
I met Theresa Nichols serendipitously on Dharmapala Mawatha, almost a year ago. She’s a retired park ranger and a writer of children’s books who lives in Aztec, New Mexico. These, I now feel, are...
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Gota’s no-frills first year, whines and whiners
It was obvious not a year that made for pomp and pageantry, even if that was the desire. All issues have been either framed or impacted by Covid19. In any case, he’s not, for example, a Mahinda...
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A child will give childhood, all over again
Everyone has had a childhood. Not all childhoods are pretty, made of smiles and laughter, ribbons and toys, kite-flying and paper boats. There’s wonderment. There are tears. Ups and downs. Good days...
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Scroll if you must, stroll if you can, try stopping too
Apparently the average person scrolls through 300 feet of mobile content every day. Of course this doesn’t mean that the average person reads all the relevant content, but still it’s quite a distance...
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Santhush Weeraman’s note on sloth, cowardice and hypnosis
Santhush Weeraman. An individual. Santhush Weeraman, in many ways inextricably linked to Bathiya Jayakody. One is not spoken without reference to the other. Like right now, as I write. Together they...
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Marcus Stoinis and the Superhero Gambit: The Sequel
Last week, i.e. just before the final of IPL 2020 between the Delhi Capitals and the Mumbai Indians, there was a lot of chatter about the role of Marcus Stoinis. In a must-win game against Sunrisers...
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Percy is the national flag
Percy. Ape Percy. Percy from Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka’s Percy. Sri Lanka’s One-Man Cheering Squad. Percy Abeysekera. Cricket lovers know him and not just fans in Sri Lanka. He’s received accolades from all...
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