The city of Colombo was brought under a total blackout shortly after midnight today as two Tiger rebel aircraft entered the city to attack targets.
Consider this: Thunderstorms, rain and floods at unusual times of the year. Government troops and the LTTE fighting over land in the north and the east that may not even exist in the future. Sea levels rising by half a metre, dry areas getting drier and wet areas becoming wetter, leading to floods in the wet zone and droughts in the dry zone. |
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| ISSN: 1391 - 0531 | Sunday,
April 29, 2007 |
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Standing at a crossroad at Pita Kotte, Bhikkuni H. Supeshala looks like any other member of the female Sangha. But there is determination in her voice and fire in her eyes as she advocates the right to education assistance for Sri Lanka’s order of bhikkunis. 
It has been an emotive week for the Sri Lankan film industry. On the same evening, at the same place, two major announcements were made by the doyen of the country’s film-makers, Lester James Peries, during the launch of the book Lester by Lester.
When these words are read, Sri Lankans will be awakening from a night of watching their cricketers do battle at the 2007 World Cup final. But as I write them from Barbados in the Caribbean, we are being put through our paces for the final hurdle.
It was an exhausting but equally exhilarating week.
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