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| Take your pick at GLF |
| “We’re holding our breath and ready to shift into gear,” says Sunila Galappatti, Festival Director of the 2010 Galle Literary Festival. “From the arrivals through to the movement of our goods to Galle, and on to the beginning of the festival, this is that stage of just charting the schedule of where everyone’s going to be.” |
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| Wage hike only through Wages Board |
| The proposed private sector wage increase will not be an ad hoc increase, but will be implemented through the tripartite Wages Board mechanism, the Minister of Labour says after the private sector complained about the arbitrary hike. |
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| Making a beeline to Modi |
| I cannot figure out why actor Amitabh Bachchan and the top industrialists are bent upon giving credibility to Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi when the Supreme Court of India is doing its best for the exposure of his misdeeds. |
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| Feng Shui luck at home |
| The secrets of Feng Shui were closely guarded among emperors and the powerful elite of ancient China, its birthplace, close to 3000 years ago. They attributed much of their success to this art of Feng Shui and kept its knowledge from the common man. |
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| EDITORIAL |
| Lanka at crossroads, looks for statesman |
| The country goes to the polls on Tuesday to choose its President for the next six years.
It is these elections that make the 'King' and the wannabes have been crisscrossing the country soliciting the people's vote. Elections are, probably next only to death, the great equalizer. Whether a man or woman has a million rupees or nary a cent, however high or low in the social hierarchy; whether employed or not, he or she has one vote. |
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| COLUMNS |
Country faces moment of truth
-Political Column |
| For a nation reputed in Asia for its independent electoral process, give or take a few omissions or commissions, the news was more than disconcerting. "I will resign my post after the polls," Elections Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake told representatives of candidates contesting Tuesday's Presidential Election. |
Agriculture neglected despite vital rural vote
- The Economic Analysis |
| On the eve of the elections, the centre of attention is on who should or would be elected. Political concerns are foremost in the minds of readers, even though how the economy is to be managed is admittedly an important consideration. |
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| Where she comes from |
| Michelle de Kretser was eight years old when her mother saw a ghost. It’s a story she tells with great relish, conjuring up for you a dry day in Jaffna and a family of six staying in King’s House. |
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| King Vickramabahu’s aim |
| The Portuguese
leaders informed King Buwanekabahu of the request made by the
clergy. The king ignored the matter. |
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| Depoliticisation of sports is the need of the hour |
| Sport is a part of an essential activity that comes in the routine of many given humans in various disciplines. Though it does not come within the realms of balancing your family life, it is still a part of an essential ingredient to your physical and mental wellbeing.
Many a war activity of the past comes in to the modern sports curricula in the form of archery and fencing, martial arts and wrestling. |
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