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R Sampanthan’s hour of reckoning
Objection to Rajavarothiam Sampanthan being made Opposition Leader has ranged from rank communalism, justifiable fears given his and his party’s unabashed endorsement of a terrorist outfit, through a...
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‘Labour’ should be a compulsory ‘subject’ in schools
‘Never in our days’ is a frequently uttered ‘observation’ by those who have left an institution, a country or profession. It is something that one hears whenever past pupils of a school gather to...
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Drop reputation and fly
Pic courtesy telemisr.netErrol Alphonso, my friend and benefactor, is an indefatigable miner of the Internet, meticulous separator of grain from chaff therein and a generous disseminator of information...
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මෛත්‍රී ගේ සිනහවේ යටිපෙළ සහ පශ්චාත් මැතිවරණ සමයේ වෙනත් රස කතා 3
මෛත්‍රී ගේ සිනහවේ යටිපෙළ: "එජාපයේ අය හිතුවේ ජනවාරි 8 දා දිනුවේ රනිල් කියලා. ඒ අය හිතන්නේ අගෝ 17 දා දිනුවෙත් රනිල් කියලා."සියලු සිනමා වාර්තා බිඳදමමින් (නව) දින 100 වෙත: "මහින්ද සමග පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට -...
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The SLFP blues and other politidbits of the week
SLFP bluesDoes the Sri Lanka Freedom Party need and OPPOSITION leader or a LEADER?Sri Lanka as seen from KekirilanthayaWhen one gazes from Kekirilanthaya upon present day Sri Lanka or else Sri Lanka’s...
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ඕල් එක්ස්ට්‍රිමිස්ට්ස් නෝන්ඩි ඕකේ?
බයි ද වේ...බොදු ජන පෙරමුණේ පෆෝමන්ස් එක 'බෞද්ධ අන්තවාදයේ'පරාජයක් ලෙස දකින (ඇත්තෙන්ම බෞද්ධන්ගේ පරාජයක් ලෙස දකින්න කැමති) අය පෙරටුගාමී සමාජවාදී පක්ෂයේ, එක්සත් සමාජවාදී පක්ෂයේ, නව සමසමාජ පක්ෂයේ, සමාජවාදී...
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The sun will never set
Pic courtesy www.shantitravel.comThis is the forty fifth 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...
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දේශපාලනයේ අඩෝ-මචං න්‍යාය
දේශපාලනයේ අඩෝ-මචං න්‍යාය: රන්ජන් රාමනායක ඉස්සර ලන්සා ට කිව්වේ 'අඩෝ!'කියල. දැන් කියන්නේ 'මචං'කියල.වෛරය, ඊර්ෂ්‍යාව, මානය ට වඩා ඝනකම් ය කරුණාව, මෛත්‍රිය, උපේක්ෂාව සහ මුදිතා ගුණය. දේශපාලනයේදී නම් කරුණාව,...
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Imperfectly yours [A note on Writers' Block]
A short story written five years ago for 'The Daily News' about a year after I started writing a daily column titled 'The Morning Inspection' for that paper. It could be read as a note on that mythical...
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Extremists OUT! [and other 'politidbits' of the week]
Extremists OutThose who read the performance of the Bodu Jana Peramuna as a defeat of extremism, say nothing about the multi-ethnic-multi-religious extremists and their performances [For the...
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National Security is no theatre
Once a pawn of the Tiger rump and now one of professional rivalry/jealousy?In a society where there is justice and it is reflected in the entire gamut of activities and processes that come under ‘law...
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Flexible Torture and the Off-Shoring of Guilt
The word economic comes from the Greek word for house, from which the word economist (‘one who manages a household’) is derived. It was essentially about ‘making ends meet’, the rupees and cents (or...
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The 19th should be revisited
The Parliament. Nice to look at. What's inside is what's fishy. Should we say 'Thank you JRJ'?Much has been said of the jumbo cabinet of the Maithripala-Ranil Government and the choices made by the...
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Irangani Serasinghe: the mother of our collective imagination
The Sinhala translation by Udayasiri Wickramaratne of the story of Irangani Serasinghe as told to Kumar De Silva was launched a few days ago. It took me back to an interview with this gracious lady...
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Don’t hold back when you groom
This is the forty sixth 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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රියල් මහින්ද රජයක් වෙනුවට ෆේක් මහින්ද රජයක්
The Three Musketeers හෙවත් මස්-කැටියෝ ත්‍රිත්වය[පශ්චාත් මැතිවරණ රස කතා]ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය [නව නිර්වචනය]: ලක්ෂ 120 ක ජනතාවක් අවතැන් කරන ක්‍රියාවලියක් [උදා: සිරියාව]එකම ඇමති කෙනෙක් වත් අදාළ නිලධාරියෙක්...
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Some jokes aren’t funny
This is the forty fourth 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 ArticleGetting a grip on the fear psychosis
Written and published in September 2009 in the 'Daily news', this might give some perspective about how things have changed (or haven't) since January 8, 2015 and also show up the lady that rants and...
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Give us clarity Mr Prime Minister
It's no laughing matter when the President and Prime Minister both act clueless about important national and policy issuesIn a meeting with media heads and editors on Friday at the President’s House,...
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'Weva' and not 'development' is who we are and will be
The dominant development paradigms and their signature projects can be easily assessed if one were to trace their tagline-shifts. The best example is one that my father pointed out almost 20 years ago....
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