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The President must be clear
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa cannot look awayon the MCC Compact, the SOFA and Circular 5/2001 on 'Other State Lands'Promises. Promises. Promises. They come in all sizes, shapes and colors during...
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COVID19: if you drop your guard, you could get out
Ricky Ponting, clearly one of the best batsmen the world has seen, was once asked to reveal the secret of his success. His answer was as simple as it was profound: ‘I treat every ball with respect.’In...
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The madnesses that must stop
Before we get to ‘crazy’ let’s start with ‘sober’. Innocent unless proven guilty. Trial by media is spectacle but has little to do with justice. Conviction by accusation is common but that’s as much a...
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The fragrance of burning manuscripts
The celebrated novelist and Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez is said to have had an unusual habit. During the course of a conversation with his friend Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, the transcripts of...
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Michael Holding always comes to the party
Cricket fans interested in history would know that Michael Holding was part of the fearsome West Indian pace battery which included Andy Roberts, Joel Garner, Colin Croft, Wayne Daniel, Sylvester...
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The flights of the brothers Piyasiri and Jayasiri
Pic courtesy www.secretlanka.comAbout six months ago, I drove along one of the most scenic roads in the country — Palapathwala to Ibbagamuwa through Yatawatte. It was a desire to avoid Katugastota on...
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The stubbornnes of a reluctant writer
A frequent reader of my articles constantly shares information and reflections he believes I should use in my articles. He suggests frequently but sometimes insists. I am sure I disappoint him now and...
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Wither Sajith Premadasa and the SJB?
Sajith Premadasa, as the leader of the Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB), would theoretically be the party’s prime ministerial candidate. The SJB, a breakaway faction of the United National Party (UNP) is...
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Of secrets sacred and unholy
Budhubava: steps lead to a stupa whose traces have been almost completely erased. Pic courtesy Tharindu AmunugamaWasantha Wijewardena, who calls himself a professional rastiyaadukaaraya, told me a long...
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Suwa Seriya: How Harsha De Silva redeemed ‘Yahapalanaya’
I was skeptical about Suwa Seriya, the emergency ambulance service launched by the Yahapalana Government with Indian funding. My skepticism is rooted in disappointments with that regime which we need...
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I listened to a sermon at Buduruwagala
A little over six kilometers southeast of Wellawaya there rises from earth and foliage the tallest rock-hewn Buddha statue in the island. Buduruwagala, literally ‘rock upon which is (carved) the image...
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Get the point for the team!
Inter-Schools Chess Champs 1983 [L-R: O.C De Alwis, Yogendra Atheray, Malinda Seneviratne, R.L.W. Koggalage, D.C.L. De Alwis. Absent: Arjuna Seneviratne (Board 1) and P.C.L. Fernando (Board 6)]. D.C.L....
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Lookout points can reveal and deceive
‘Belumgala’ is Sinhala word that refers to rock from which a vast area can be seen. Typically it is a high point if not the highest in the area, making for a 360 degree view. A lookout point,...
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Whither Gota and the SLPP?
Even the staunchest opponents of the Government would concede that the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) is more than likely to secure a clear majority at the parliamentary elections in August. A...
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Patali Champika Ranawaka: future, tense
As things stand Patali Champika Ranawaka seems to be and indeed happy to be the right-hand man of Sajith Premadasa in the Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB). It is in the very least a notch higher than his...
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You can leave the butterflies for later
The Royal College Cricket Team 1984[Graham Lawrence, 4th from left, standing]Joel Garner, Colin Croft, Michael Holding, Malcolm Marshall and Andy Roberts. All of them were much-feared fast bowlers....
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True graduations
‘Public School Solidarity’ is a march scheduled for August 30, 2020 from Cynwyd Station Park to Tustin Playground. That's in Philadelphia, USA. A poster announcing the march describes what it is about...
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Let us wish Yasmin Sooka truth and justice (for a change)
Some years ago, the then Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon appointed ‘a panel of experts’ to advise him on Sri Lanka’s three decades long battle to rid the island of terrorism. The...
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Route 138: real, imagined and non-existent
In the year 1933, the P.E.N. Club in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentine had decided to honor two poets, the Chilean Pablo Neruda and the Spaniard Federico Garcia Lorca, and they in turn decided to...
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General Election 2020: Let’s consider ‘lesser known’ candidates
Towards the end of the year 2018 in the heady days of the parliamentary crisis there was a slogan bandied about in social media and elsewhere by ‘well-meaning’ liberals (read, ‘yahapalanists’)...
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