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White is a color we forget too often
Pic by Navod Yasiru Doloswala of KudamaduwaShantha K Herrath, well-known artist, who worked for decades for the Divaina newspaper was the one who drove the point home. Shantha Aiya helped with the...
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The flooring of ideologies and ideologues
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Brexit: long overdue!
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The new populism is to resist populism and populists
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Let’s welcome Jörg Frieden, the Damage-Controller
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Ninety four percent voted for ‘One Country, One Law,’ so there!
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The most beautiful road is yet to meet a cartographer
Nazim Hikmet believed that he hadn’t yet said the most beautiful words he wanted to tell his beloved when he wrote of seas, children, days and of course words. And yet, that verse about the unspoken is...
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The Eldest: a story written on face and in eyes
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The recruitment conundrum: loyalty and competence are not coterminous
Few appointment to state institutions escape criticism. This is natural in a country where meritocracy spices rhetoric but rarely gets inscribed in recruitment processes. It is not easy for the right...
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Sickness: a politician’s preserve?
Looks like he's having the last laugh!Politicians are sick. I’ve heard people say that. It is an unfair statement if only because it is a generalization. Nevertheless, politicians can be like a...
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Presidential Raids: Perhaps necessary but certainly not sufficient
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Towards an intersection of ‘Rule of Law’ and ‘Tradition’
Rule of Law. That was a yahapalana howl. The howl would quickly diminish to a whimper when the Yahapanalists carried out the Central Bank Bond Scam. The Yahapanalists went deaf and dumb over the dozens...
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Yasaratne, the gentle giant of Divulgane
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The diga-palala of dynastic aspirations
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Presidential Pardons are political hot potatoes
Does anyone remember Maithripala Sirisena? I am sure some people do, perhaps fondly or in mild to intense joy that he’s no longer the President of the country. He was that kind of president. Lucky to...
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Maps as wrapping paper, roads as ribbons
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Where’s your ‘One, Galle Face’?
‘Have you been to the biggest studio in Sri Lanka?’ The question was asked by Susantha Kumara, three-wheel driver, milk-delivery man, occasional caterer and old friend. ‘Studio?’ I thought to myself....
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Forget constellations and the names of oceans
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A ‘working nation’ needs a judiciary that works
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ඇඟට නොගත්තොත් ඇඟට අමාරුවකුත් නැහැ
2015 මහා මැතිවරණය කාලේ මම වැඩ කෙරුවේ 'ද නේෂන්'පත්තරේ. මැතිවරණ ප්රතිඵල, විශ්ලේෂණ සමග අපේ වෙබ් අඩවියේ පල කරන්න සියලු කටයුතු සූදානම් කල යුතුව තිබුනා. මැතිවරණයට දින දෙකකට පෙර රෑ 10ට විතර කොටාවේ අපේ නිවස...
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