Ensuring unity and safety under one flag
Since the announcement of the date of the
upcoming Presidential election, mass media both electronic and
print, continue to provide sensational news, giving wide publicity
to the policy decisions and utterances in particular of two
candidates - the incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Retired
General Sarath Fonseka who are designated by the media as the two
main contenders among and unprecedented 20 others at this election.
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The Morning Inspection - Malinda
When hatred is thicker than love
Didn’t you know that the revolution begins with
poetry and that it ends with the abandonment of love? Jayantha
Chandrasiri’s debut feature film, Agnidahaya, had the following
tagline: ‘Aadaraya vairayata vadaa ghanakamya’ (love is thicker than
hatred). Nice line.
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And now the Swan Song
The professed reasoning behind the candidacy of
retired General Sarath Fonseka for the post of the Executive
President of this country is so confused that it borders on the
farcical. And this comedy has attracted such a motley group of
actors that we will not be certain whether the story is fashioned
after the “Dads Army”, “Mr. Beans”, the “Carry On” series or the old
movie “the Russians are Coming”!
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