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Mother Language Day

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Politics and Governance, Right to Information

The Language Barrier

Sitting on Editor Selvaraja Rajasegar’s desk is a thick envelope containing details of elephant deaths on the railway track. The information took him over a month to receive, because he made the…

Groundviews Groundviews on 02/27/2019
Issues, Language

The Duality of Language : Marking International Mother Language Day

Language can simultaneously connect and divide, as Sri Lanka has learned to bitter effect in the past. The divisiveness could be said to have begun with the Official Language Act of 1956, which…

on 02/19/201604/01/2016

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