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Have you considered carefully the f-word?
Think back. Who was your best friend when you were in the kindergarten? How about in Primary School? How many best friends did you have since the boy or girl who happened to be seated next to you...
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The happiest days of our lives
Birthdays are the best. They are so good that from the day following the birthday no one can blame anyone for thinking about the next birthday. There are other good days of course. Holidays are...
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The inflation of Sajith Premadasa
Dayan Jayatilleka in an article titled ‘The Uva effect and the Presidency’ argues against the UNP fielding Ranil Wickremesinghe as its presidential candidate in a repeat of the 2005 face-off with...
View ArticleThe world’s being painted afresh as I write
There are moments when I feel I’ve lived through these times before. I have heard others say the same thing. Life is replay, it seems at times. Yesterday I got an email from someone who reads my...
View ArticleThe President’s choices get explained
There was animated conversation in the Senior Common Room of a prominent state university. This was unusual because academics had long since given up on debate and discussion of any kind let alone...
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Thank you Mahinda for the avocado prawns
Pic courtesy http://jonoandjules.com/Everyone takes note. Some keep notes. Some in diaries and journals. Some in their minds and hears. Some of these are shared via email or on Facebook or blog;...
View ArticleWhere is Laura Davies looking?
The United Kingdon’s Deputy High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Laura Davies is a lady on the move. It’s all official of course, although in an age where diplomats double up as spies we don’t really need to...
View ArticleThe politics of moral objection
The revelations by the website Colombo Telegraph pointing to fraud and deceit by the Center for Policy Alternatives (CPA) in an article titled ‘Exposé: Center for Policy Alternatives defrauded and...
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You can fly if you want to
Pic courtesy www.flyingtots.co.ukThere was a little boy who liked to write poetry. He was about 12 years old. He wrote of waterfalls and forgotten islands. He wrote of colors so new that they were...
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SB’s teaching methods
There are those in which world who don’t mince their words. Being forthright has its pluses and minuses. Honesty is rewarded but then again in this day and age deceit is far more profitable. A...
View ArticleDear Rebel, it is easy to name the enemy isn't it?
This is the third in a series of articles on rebels and rebellion I am writing for the FREE section of 'The Nation'. 'FREE' is dedicated to youth and youthfulness. Ok, so you’ve picked your fight....
View ArticleTrivialities that trip
In the early 1990s a director of a state institution was at the receiving end of efforts to remove him orchestrated by the particular subject minister who used the institute’s trade union. His...
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Did the European Court of Justice slip Mahinda a trump card?
Here’s the ‘word on the street’ or rather ‘word on the walls’ on Saturday October 18, 2014: ‘යුරෝපාසංගමයLTTE තහනමඉවත්කරයි…රනිල්යුරෝපයෙන්වැඩඅරඹයි’ (The EU lifts LTTE ban – Ranil embarks (on campaign)...
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Options for the Opposition
Dayan Jayatilleka in an article published in the Colombo Telegraph (How a weak opposition could still play it smart) offers that the Opposition is actually helping President Mahinda Rajapaksa secure a...
View ArticleThere are those who stay when they go
It was a Tuesday. Ratnayake Hall. Dumbara Campus, University of Peradeniya. First day. I remember it being a cold morning. There was an English Test. An hour, perhaps a little longer. I am not...
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The p-word cuts both ways
This is the third in a series of articles on rebels and rebellion I am writing for the FREE section of 'The Nation'. 'FREE' is dedicated to youth and youthfulness. People say this is the Age of...
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Re-graining the nation
I joined 'The Nation' newspaper (re-joined, to be precise) in October 2011. I wrote my first editorial after re-joining on October 23, 2011. It's been a great three years. By way of remembering the...
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Get off my walkway!
Pic by Hiranya MalwatteEveryone takes note. Some keep notes. Some in diaries and journals. Some in their minds and hears. Some of these are shared via email or on Facebook or blog; some are not....
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Why Wiggy missed a train
Chief Minister of the Northern Provincial Council, Canagasabapathy Visuvalingam Wigneswaran is a former judge. A man of words. An educated man who commands respect. A civilized man, some would say....
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Pebbles are amazing things
They come in all sizes. They come in different shapes. And they come in many colors too. We walk on them, kick them aside and sometimes even spit on them. They don’t seem to mind of course....
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