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Wigneswaran bids adieu...
If the TNA’s manifesto with its not-so-subtle separatist posturing dismays those who believe that the TNA has to be part of any discussion on post-conflict resolution, the party’s Chief Ministerial...
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Youth must have its fling
Ranil WIckremesinghe is an 'evergreen'. No, not because he is young -- he wasn't exactly 'young' when he campaigned for the Presidency, claiming to be 'youthful'; he is ever-green because he will...
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When the BBC, Reuters, AP, AFP slept and Al Jazeera was half-asleep
Pope Francis lashed out on Sunday against what His Holiness termed 'commercial war to sell arms', leading mass prayers in Saint Peter's Square. The Pope was referring to Barack Obama's 'need' to attack...
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Honest Pavithra
Pavithra Wanniarachchi, Minister of Power and Energy, says that elections provide an opportunity to tell the world the truth. Great. The public is eagerly waiting for the lady to tell the truth about...
View ArticleAnd they missed Pillay's LTTE reference too!
Navi Pillay said a mouthful and got a lot of it wrong. Still, she did bash the LTTE and its supporters. The BBC 'faithfully' reported about the mountains Pillay made out of molehills. The BBC missed...
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The kneeling culture
A Senior DIG is reported to have ordered some 100 officers to kneel, following a sergeant being nabbed while soliciting a bribe. Now this is very different from a politico-thug getting a teacher to...
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Lt General Daya Ratnayake
Sportsman. Fighter. Thinker. Peace-Maker. Commander.[Pics from Army archives, the Commander's albums and by Sandra Mack] Mahinda Kumara Dalupotha while relating a story about cattle, milk and how...
View ArticleThe 'Ugly' rises again
When the first provincial council elections were held on April 28, 1988 hundreds were killed. The JVP in its Deshapremi Janatha Vyaparaya avatardecreed that the first to cast his or her vote in each...
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Let us count to twelve now for Neruda and Allende
On September 11, 1973, Dr. Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens, President of Chile,died in the Presidential Palace, shortly after delivering his farewell speech on live radio. He may have been killed,...
View ArticleOf aspirations, referenda and realities
[This was written on election day, Saturday, September 21, 2003]Politicians and political parties don’t go before the people with a single promise, they offer bags of goodies. Voters don’t think...
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The cosmetics of love and wisdom
A random channel-switch on Saturday morning as I drove to work took me to a station running a documentary on Joe Abeywickrama, regarded as one of the greatest actors of his time if not the greatest....
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Kandiah Maheswaran teaches English to C.V. Wigneswaran
[In a parallel universe called ‘Humility’…] It would be nice if all candidates walked the talk, but niceties aside all candidates talk and all candidates walk. Walking leads to talking because that’s...
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Plots and plants that fascinate the milk powder industry
About a month ago, one of the many scurrilous gossip-mongering websites that pretends to be posting news published a story about a conspiracy. The claim was that there was a conspiracy to attack the...
View ArticleCallum Macrae wakes up…
[In a parallel universe called Humility]I am Callum Macrae. I am an award-winning film maker, writer and journalist. The ‘journalist’ part is important because it allows me to fictionalize the truth...
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The saddest politician in South Asia and other stories
[VIEW FROM RITIGALA DURING THE THIRD WEEK OF OCTOBER 2013] HR Language of AI and HRW HTT (Holier-Than-Thou) BBC reports on US military strikes in the following manner: 'CIA drone attacks in Pakistan...
View ArticleRe-loading does not help reconciliation
People have multiple identities based on ethnicity, religious faith, gender, age, location, citizenship, vocation and ideological preference among other things. Thus it is that a journalist or a human...
View ArticleVoyeurism Unlimited
If anyone has walked with eyes wide open around Bunker Hill, which is the business heart of Los Angeles, even as way back as the early nineties, the level of surveillance would have shocked. It is one...
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Salman Khurshid’s unease
[Transcribed in a parallel universe called Humility by Kadawara]As the Minister of External Affairs I have to be diplomatic. I have to be pragmatic. I have to walk on eggshells, to be honest. On the...
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Ever-green Reds and other fascinating creatures
Balloth ekka bae The unanticipated balu-prashne that had animal lovers up in arms when the Southern Express Highway was opened, appears to have been relocated to the area between Peliyagoda and...
View ArticleFree Media Movement Busted
· IFJ’s Jacqui Park violated immigration law 19 times· Convenor Sunil Jayasekera lies about Jacqui ParkDirector Asia-Pacific Region of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ),...
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