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My dear Mother Lanka, I am writing to you today as you mark 76 years of ‘independence’ from Britain. I don’t think we can call it a celebration because, we were ‘dependent’ only on that country then whereas now, we are dependent on India, China and the IMF, so I don’t know what this ‘independence’ [...]