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| Political
Column |
Fortune favours the Rajapaksas |
| He stood on the dais in his usually immaculate white national dress and the inimitable Kurakkan satakaya (maroon shawl) around his neck. It was on the same soil, centuries ago, the last King of Kandy, Sri Wickrema Rajasinghe ordered the child hero, Madduma Bandara beheaded. |
| 5th
Column |
Man of many mysteries:
Always Dayananda |
My Dear Dayananda,
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| The Economic Analysis |
Vulnerability despite changing trading pattern |
| Trade deficits have been endemic in the post independent history of the country. In 2009 too we incurred a substantial trade deficit though considerably less than the huge deficit of the previous year. |
| Lobby |
One more mud-slinging fight before dissolution |
| The presidential election is over but a bigger electoral fight is at hand for the country’s legislators whose turn it will soon be to go before the people and ask for a fresh mandate. |
| Focus on Rights |
A symbolic washing of hands |
| So the cynics were proved right all along in their assessments of Elections Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake’s performance (to put it at the kindest level) as Sri Lanka’s elections chief. |
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