Notes for a Manifesto: Education Reforms
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View ArticleTime can be sliced and scrambled
“Were you aware, perhaps in a sacred moment of intoxication, that an evil guard imprisons us by the winding of clocks?”A close friend of mine was hospitalized for depression and related conditions...
View Article‘Civil Society’ needs to be nationalized!
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View ArticleImperfectly yours... [a confession about writing]
I start typing between name and disclaimer. There are days when I know before hand, sometimes even as early as the previous day, what I will write about. Most days, however, I really don’t have a clue....
View ArticleNotes for a Manifesto: State, Religion and Rationalization
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View ArticleYahapalanaya: a disaster beyond management
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View ArticleNotes for a Manifesto: Reconciliation
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View ArticleNotes for a Manifesto: environment, development, caricature and extremism
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View ArticleThe importing-mania in school cricket
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View ArticleOn the Yahapalana Economists, lightly
Dr Harsha De Silva, Economic Affairs State Minister, has always been in awe of Ranil Wickremesinghe, the leader of his party and the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. He’s not alone in this. There are many...
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යුරෝපයේ පිරිමින්ගේ සාමාන්ය උස අඩි පහයි අඟල් දහයයි. ප්රංශයේ හිටපු ජනාධිපති නිකොලා සාකෝසි ගේ උස අඩි පහයි අඟල් පහයි. උස ප්රශ්නයක් කරගත් සාකෝසි අපූරු උපක්රමයක් පාවිච්චි කල බව වාර්තා වේ. තමන්ට වඩා...
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යුනෙස්කෝ ආයතනය ඔක්තෝබර් මස 4 වෙනිදා නම් කරලා තියෙන්නේ 'ජාත්යන්තර ගුරුවරුන්ගේ දිනය'කියලයි. ඒ 1994 සිට. ඉස්කෝලේ යන කාලේ නම් හැමදාම ගුරුවරුන් ගේ දිනයක් හැටියටයි මට නම් මතක. ගුරුවරුන් රජකරන ලෝකයක්....
View ArticleNotes for a Manifesto: National Security
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View ArticleMark Field, and the forgotten dimensions of misfortune and unfairness
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View ArticleSportsmen and Sportswomen Beware!
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View ArticleNotes for a Manifesto: Sports
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View ArticleBASIL
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View ArticleNot all victories are recorded, but that’s ok
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View ArticleDistance is a toy
It could be from the top of a tall building. A rooftop, a top floor window or a hilltop. It could be even from where you stood a little while ago or where you will be standing in a little while, after...
View ArticleNotes for a Manifesto: the National Interest should frame Foreign Policy
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