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Towards a smoke-free tomorrow
It was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. It was not exactly what the petitioners wanted, but even the ‘compromise’ contained in the determination to force the tobacco industry to...
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At the intersection of love and justice
‘හැටේවත්තේ මග්දලේනා ’ (‘Hete watte Magdalena’ or ‘Magdaleena of Community 60’) by Saumya Sandaruwan Liyanage, a collection of 47 poems, an author publication, reviewed by Malinda SeneviratneLove and...
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Kolombia and Kolombians all the way!
Done. Finally. I hate elections. Elections are about a lot of people getting excited. They are about inflated self-importance. It’s the one moment when the riff raff actually think this country...
View ArticleThe supporters (of Mahinda and Maithripala) reflect*
The MR CampWe got caught in the thrill of the whole thing, that’s for sure. We all operated on the basis of a simple assumption: the President cannot lose. For this reason, we were in a world where...
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When the enemy is your best friend
This is the sixteenth in a series of articles on rebels and rebellion written for the FREE section of 'The Nation'. Scroll to the end for other articles in this series. 'FREE' is dedicated to youth...
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Fragments speak of a thousand stories
This is the sixteenth article in a series I am writing for the JEANS section of 'The Nation'. The series is for children. Adults consider yourselves warned...you might re-discover a child within you!...
View Article‘Resolution’ is never obtained by myth-modelling, misnaming and mischief
Today, post-election, post-Mahinda and a marked absence of devolution and resolution talk, the focus is on good governance, constitutional reform and correction of flawed institutional arrangement....
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If the grape is made of wine, then "I" am made of "you"
The grape is made of wine, someone said someone quoted, I can’t remember now. How true, I thought to myself. Sometimes we have to stand things on their heads to render them readable, because the world...
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Post-Mahinda Crime Probe: Let’s begin from 1994
Of all that is pernicious in all resolutions tabled in the UNHRC against Sri Lanka the most scandalous and disgusting perhaps is limiting investigations calls for to the last few months of the war. We...
View ArticleThe scramble for post-election bragging rights
Wickramabahu Karunaratne of the Nava Sama Samaaja Party (NSSP) has claimed that ‘the working class fulfilled a massive task’ in securing the victory of Maithripala Sirisena. What is implied here is...
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Maithripala's victory: the yakkos did it (for us)!
And in the end guess who is home and laughing? Kolombians are a distinct people from Colombo who know much -- so much that they are wont to think that others don't know and can't think. They have...
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A separate state called Delft Island
It is not the only Delft in the world. Utter the name in the Netherlands and you’d probably find a few people who would say it is a city in the province of South Holland, located north of Rotterdam...
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Mahinda Rajapaksa on Mahinda Rajapaksa
And what does Mahinda have to say of elections and defeats? Well, only Mahinda will really know and it's only in a PARALLEL UNIVERSE that we can access those files. We did. And we...
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The MSM Principle of Engagement
This is the seventeenth in a series of articles on rebels and rebellion written for the FREE section of 'The Nation'. Scroll to the end for other articles in this series. 'FREE' is dedicated to youth...
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Collect something crazy
This is the seventeenth article in a series I am writing for the JEANS section of 'The Nation'. The series is for children. Adults consider yourselves warned...you might re-discover a child within...
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'රනිල් ගේ මොහොත'සහ එහි දිග-පළල
මීට මාස දෙකකට පමණ පෙර රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතාට දේශපාලන තීන්දුවක් ගන්නට සිදුවුණි. එනම් එළඹෙන ජනාධිපතිවරණයට ඉදිරිපත් වනවාද නොවනවාද යන්නයි. මීට වසර 5 කට පෙර, එනම් 2009 අග භාගයේදී ද මෙවන් තීන්දුවක් ගැනීමට...
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Sirisena-Ranil doing a 'Mahinda' on the Chief Justice?
Not too long ago the ‘international community’ was up in arms when Mahinda Rajapaksa moved to oust the then Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake. The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) lent its...
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It is ok if you forgot what happened on January 25th (as I often did)*
Another January 25th is upon us. No big deal. Not the first, not the last. Follows a January 24th and will be followed by a January 26th. In a sense dates are meaningless things, relevant only in...
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Of lie-sheets, lying eyes and other fascinating things
Ithaca, they say, is gorgeous!There are times I feel that the entire world is an intricately and painstakingly embroidered sheet specifically designed to cheat the eye. There are times I feel that...
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To seize or not seize the moment…
Parties? What parties?The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) enjoys a Parliamentary majority. The party has all but elected the new President as its leader, the very same individual who ran against the...
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