The Sunday Times
ISSN: 1391 - 0531
Sunday October 28, 2007
Vol. 42 - No 22
 
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“It’s almost impossible to understand!” says Dr. Dushyanthi Mendis. We are leaning over a mobile phone, struggling through a thicket of acronyms; a virtual forest of abbreviations – and just barely getting somewhere. Perhaps it’s the complete lack of punctuation, perhaps it’s the fact that the letters have been whittled down to the bare minimum, if even that; I however, have the sinking suspicion that it’s because this is an alien language.
 
Telling her stories of pain and pleasure
I hear the word more times in the course of this one evening than I have over 24 years of living. It is a strange feeling – not entirely comfortable - and one must fight the urge to giggle. But by the time The Vagina Monologues are complete, that first, inexplicable embarrassment has disappeared, dissolved into stories of mirth and grief; tenderness, rebellion and reawakening.
 
 

Letters to the editor
  Criticism aimed at Govt., not at troops
  Enhancing the power of protection
 
Appreciations
  Lt. Gen. Parami Kulatunge
  Suren Wickremesinghe
  Hiran Sri KirthiSingha
   
Features
  Assisting women, teaching a Buddhist way of life
  The light side and dark side of kasippu trade
  Don't let that green-eyed monster gobble you up
   
Travel
  On the golden road to Samarkand
   
People and events
  It was a learning experience
  Tenwatte School gets budu medura
  Sarvodaya Chief gives message of peace
  Conferred title of 'Deshamanya'
  Events album
  Be stimulated by Kundalini yoga
  Legacy of a master
  Doing it the Ikebana way
  Salads and other goodies at Trans Asia
   

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