The monstrosity of the Sri Lankan 'Montessori'
EVERY few hundred feet from your very doorstep
the word "Montessori" springs up like coloured umbrellas on the
beach! From glossy hi-tech signboards which have pictures of foreign
children on the walls to attract and mislead parents, to humble
hand-painted ones; we've seen them all for more than five decades
and counting!
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How others see the LTTE's exit
THE international community needs to tighten the
screws on the LTTE, making it clear that the extremist organisation
has no option but a negotiated political solution to the conflict
within an undivided Sri Lanka, The Hindu said yesterday in an
editorial.
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UN's role in peace-making
ARMED conflict in the current context brings to
bear two overriding facts: The first is that the majority of the
world's conflicts today take place within States rather than between
them.
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