Ethical values in a changing village
WITH the dawn of a new century and a new
millennium, we are becoming more concerned about what is in store
for us in the future. Social scientists predict that globalisation
will ultimately take us to a new village, a Global Village with new
hopes and aspirations.
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Lost Horizons
Ajith Samaranayake - the end of an era
THE announcement last week of Ajith
Samaranayake's death took me by surprise, and created a great sense
of melancholia. Oddly enough, knowing nothing of the illness, I had
been thinking of him the night before, when I was looking through a
copy of the first New Lankan Review, the journal I had begun in
1983.
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Defence Column
South East Asia no more a haven for LTTE gun-running
LTTE Leader V. Prabhakaran made his annual
speech on November 27. Unlike President Rajapaksa who celebrated his
first anniversary of Presidency with his people, Prabhakaran had to
deliver his speech confined to his jungle hideout in the Wanni.
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