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| An evening ablaze with musical fervour |
| It’s nice to be pleasantly surprised. It’s nice to walk out of a concert-hall thinking “awesome!”, as opposed to “by local standards that was good, no?”. |
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| Top team needed to lift Sri Lanka’s economy |
| Economists, among other issues, are urging President Mahinda Rajapaksa to induct a set of open-minded, modernist and innovative economic advisers who can lift the Sri Lankan economy from medium-level equilibrium to a high-level equilibrium economy during his second term in office.
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| World Social Forum told another kind of economics is possible |
| Democratising economics as well as politics is essential for ending irrationality and discrimination as part of the struggle for social and environmental justice, said participants at one of the panels of the seminar assessing the World Social Forum's (WSF) first 10 years. |
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| Deakin University Alumni Reception |
Deakin University, ably supported by Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) held a reception for alumni and friends of the university on Thursday, November 26 2009 at the Taj Samudra Hotel to thank them for the contributions they made to the university community. |
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| EDITORIAL |
| Now - statesmanship |
| President Mahinda Rajapaksa has been re-elected for a second term. Though the President said publicly that he would be re-elected with a "comfortable majority", there were no doubt, anxious moments for him and his supporters until the count came trickling in. |
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| COLUMNS |
The Rajapaksa thunderbolt
-Political
Column |
| At Tuesday's polls, the final count showed that Percy Mahinda Rajapaksa rode on a tidal wave of voter support to victory and continues as Sri Lanka's sixth President. |
| Continuity and change in economic policies -The Economic Analysis |
| The country has given a decisive victory to President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Although economic policies were not the central issues that determined the election result, there was an implicit endorsement of the Mahinda Chintana polices. |
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| Right to vote but little right of access |
| They were determined to vote, despite age, infirmity and disability. Politically aware like most Sri Lankans, they would not even consider staying home on election day for they felt it was their duty to take part in the democratic process of choosing SriLanka’s next President. |
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| The Sri Lankan National Flag |
| When Vijaya, the first King of the island of
Sri Lanka, arrived in
Sri Lanka from India in 486 BC, he brought with him a flag with a symbol of a lion on it. Since then the Lion symbol played a significant role in the
history of Sri Lanka. |
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| Politics beyond sports shores |
| From time immemorial the sages have always tried to inculcate love and goodwill among people. One of the primary reasons for this is that humans have evolved beyond the mental reasoning abilities of all other creatures that mother earth could offer on her platter. |
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