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I/NGOs: Mea Culpa… Your Culpa… or Our Culpa?
Shanaka Amarasinghe Nearly three years have passed since the devastation of Boxing Day 2004. Those three years should have sufficed...
Continue reading »(Mis)-apportioning the Public Money
By Muttukrishna Sarvananthan Ph.D The government has tabled the Appropriation Bill for the fiscal year 2008 in the Parliament on...
Continue reading »A requiem by Karuna: The death of sub-regionalism?
By Shanthi Sachithanandam Vakarai division, largely jungle tracts crisscrossed with 14 or so villages and little hamlets, situated along the...
Continue reading »Defeating MR: All but impossible
By Victor Ivan The forthcoming budget will be decisive to the United National Party (UNP) and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna...
Continue reading »Are we winning hearts and minds?
“The guerilla fights the war of the flea, and his military enemy suffers the dog’s disadvantages: too much to defend;...
Continue reading »Consensus building for peace
On a first reading of the poll results, what emerges is the gap between what people perceive as the hard...
Continue reading »The fear of Jaffna
By Shanthi Sachithanandam “Last night was full moon Oh you Sinhala Buddhist For whom breaking even an egg on a...
Continue reading »SRI LANKA’S TRAGEDY
By Frederica Jansz Thevani Yogaraja holds a photograph of her family while grieving for her missing husband Emanuel and two...
Continue reading »Shedding the Master: The Challenge for the Muslims
Shanthi Sachithanandam “There is among the Ceylon Moors diverse opinion on this question in this house and throughout the country....
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