Lankan English: How far do we go?
On attending a seminar titled ‘Kaduwa’ at the just concluded Colomboscope, Dinoo Kelleghan shares her views On the way home in the tuk-tuk from “Kaduwa”, the ColomboScope seminar on Sri Lankan English learning, while chatting with the driver in an amalgam of our native tongue and fragments of vocabulary stolen from the Sceptred Isle, I ruminated [...]
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Appreciations
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Letters to the Editor
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Heated debate and emotions running high
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Cover
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New Sri Lankan Ambassador to Israel
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People and events
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