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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Oct 15, 2008
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I wish to draw wider public attention to the following extract appearing in “ A short note from the Vanni ” written by “Witness” and appearing in the Groundviews on September 30, 2008:
“The people now staying at Vattakachi and Tharmapuram areas are requesting to...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Oct 8, 2008
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R.Venugopal
The course of this conflict has seen many unlikely bed-fellows, serendipitous twists of fortune, and actions that led to very unforeseen consequences. When the dust settles and the history of the present is written some day, it will have to record the extraordinary debt that the...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Oct 1, 2008
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For all intents and purposes, the All Party Conference (APC), has been a waste of time by playing for time, all the time. Periodic boycotts and exits of parties based on their factional agendas have indirectly helped the procrastination, supported by the lack of political will and courage on the...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Oct 1, 2008
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by R.M.B. Senanayake
The attack on the human rights lawyer Weliamuna in the night where he is living with two small children show that danger is not far away from all citizens who uphold human rights and democratic norms. We the educated and influential in society have been silent when white...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Sep 27, 2008
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In the past week, the name ‘Sakvithi’ has been causing ripples in Sri Lankan society and creating numerous news headlines — for all the wrong reasons.
Sakvithi Ranasinghe, a populist tutor of English turned millionaire businessman, has fled the country after duping thousands...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Sep 22, 2008
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Seven years after 9/11, we’re in between world orders.
And winds of systemic change grip all nooks of the globe: the overstretch of America, geopolitical quicksand which is the Middle East, the benign growth of Brazil and Japan, rise of China and India, resurgence of Russia, expansion...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Sep 23, 2008
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People don’t realize that there is as much corruption in the private education sector as in the public sector for the corrupt counter party that offers the bribe or corrupt payment is in the private sector.
There is corruption in all its forms- favoritism, nepotism, bribery and influence...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Sep 27, 2008
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Siri Hettige
Professor of Sociology
University of Colombo
Education is recognized the world over as a means of achieving wider social and economic objectives. Modern education systems are designed in such a way as to facilitate the achievement of such wider objectives. On the one hand, we...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Sep 18, 2008
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AJ Gunawardana and Lester James Peiris
September 2008 marks 10 years since the sudden death of Dr Ariyasena Jayasekera (A J) Gunawardana, an outstanding university teacher, writer/journalist, cinema personality and art critic. When he failed to regain consciousness from open heart...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Sep 16, 2008
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A few weeks ago while in the Uda Walawe area I met an opposition party MP who had come to help in the provincial election campaign for the local candidates. As I listened to the interesting stories he was relating, I could not help but be amazed as to what we have come to accept as normal,...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Sep 12, 2008
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One of our top listed companies which was picked for a top award by a Business Magazine was recently faulted by the Supreme Court in the case filed by Mr Vasudeva Nanayakkara re the privatization of Lanka Marine Services. The bunkering business was a government monopoly carried out by a...... [view]
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