Some very intriguing words
To speak another language is to live another
life, says C.J. Moore in his In Other Words: A Language Lovers’
Guide to the Most Intriguing Words Around the World. Moore is only
repeating a Czech proverb, a country that has suffered several
occupations in the past somewhat like ours.
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Sri Lanka Tourism: Resilience and courage on the rocky up road
Being possibly the most senior travel journalist
in the country today, beginning in 1962 as the travel correspondent
of the Ceylon Daily Mirror, I thought that I could make a few
observations on Sri Lanka’s tourism industry.
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President D.B. Wijetunga - An end of an era
President Wijetunga’s chequered life having his
beginnings in an ordinary upcountry village family without the
command of a clan or class power or the attraction of prestige of
economic or social assets is known to everyone. He started his life
almost in the manner of any ordinary man would do with all the
disadvantages in life posing a challenge to time.
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