On sleeping dictionaries and the Planters’ Raj
Here’s a new one on dictionaries, which I bet you
have not heard before! A friend in Canada tells me that he picked
this from a book published in the USA, titled, ‘Round The Tea Totum
- When Sri Lanka was Ceylon’, by Dr. David Ebbels, who worked for
some six years as an assistant manager on a tea estate
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Combating terrorism: No time to dither
American audiences in general tend to identify
Sri Lanka with two specific phenomena - the tsunami of December 2004
and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam or the LTTE, a terrorist
group also known as the ‘Tigers.’
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Private sector corruption
While everybody loves to talk about corruption
in the government sector, they for some reason lose this enthusiasm
when it comes to the goings on in our large and vocal private sector
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No borders on Ondaatje’s imagination
‘INHALE,” Michael Ondaatje said as he opened the
door to Coach House in Toronto, inviting visitors to take in the
aroma of ink, paper, wood and well-oiled machinery. Two mastodonlike
Heidelberg presses clacked out the covers to a children’s book, and
two young men stood watch, adjusting the cyan, magenta and yellow.
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