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The road to economic recovery and growth is a tough and challenging one. A multiplicity of challenges have to be overcome to revive and recover the economy. Economic growth and social development are challenging tasks in the coming years. Economic recovery What we are experiencing today is not an economic recovery. It is an easing [...]
One year on; the two faces of the ‘aragalaya’
Exactly twelve months ago to the coming Tuesday, state goons led by key Rajapaksa Ministers attacked peaceful protestors at Galle Face Green leading to the incendiary flaming up of what was perhaps, the single most potent peoples’ uprising in Sri Lanka since independence. May Day musings on Rajapaksa wrongs As Rajapaksa mansions and museums were [...]
Tata eyes loss-making SriLankan Airlines: Airline intel platform
In the recent past, successive governments have looked for potential investors to run the country’s loss-making national carrier, SriLankan Airlines, but there have been no takers so far. No one came forward with an offer, given the financial status of the company. Some were willing to consider such a proposal but only if the past [...]
Crowning glory
My Dear King Charles, I am writing to congratulate you on your coronation as King of the British Empire (or what is left of it) yesterday. I hope you won’t take offence at not addressing you as Your Royal Highness. After all, we are a Republic now, though many of us are thinking we would [...]
The long road to Kusinara
The Buddha’s final lap of a samsaric journey of countless births Gautama the Buddha was now on the road to Kusinara. The road, he would never return to trod again, lay starkly before him. It would lead to that earthly shore, all his voyages on samsara’s sea had been on an inexorable course to reach. [...]
Aiming at terrorism but shooting the media too
Last week in many countries where a free press still flickers despite the creeping hand of authoritarianism that stretches to snuff it out, World Press Freedom Day was observed for the 30th consecutive year. It was particularly so in countries that have seen the killing and disappearance of journalist colleagues either by the hand of [...]
Presidential election possible this year
Moves underway to amend the constitution, but questions over who will support whom Ranil the frontrunner while SLPP is split over the candidature Some sections push for Basil, but his dual US citizenship an issue Stunning claims in Weerawansa’s book; probe by state agency By Our Political Editor The prospects of a presidential election [...]
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