'A Golden Age' I experienced
It was many centuries ago that the Athenian
leader Pericles gave the world his views on memorial lectures and
orations. 'It is hard to speak properly', he said, 'upon a subject
where it is even difficult to convince your hearers that you are
speaking the truth'. The University of Ceylon at Peradeniya in the
1950s is one such subject.
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Vijaya: A humble humanist with broad vision
"There is a saying that 'Great men are born and
they don't die'. The late Vijaya Kumaratunga was one such great man
who was a time humanist. Vijaya Kumaratunga played an exceptional
role in the social, economic, political and cultural mainstream of
this country as an eminent film artiste and a political thinker.
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On My watch
Pressure for talks and border realities
For most of this week the LTTE has been playing
hard to get with regard to participation in the Geneva 2 round of
negotiations that the Government has already given its consent to.
After its savage suicide bomb attack on Navy personnel near Sigiriya
earlier this week, which came quick on the heels of the limited
success it had at Muhamalai, the LTTE kept the guessing game live
about its presence in Geneva later this month. It added to the
speculation with the attack at Galle last Thursday.
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