The hardness of hardware and softness of software

It had to happen. No election is complete without Ranil Wickremesinghe saying something really, really funny. A few days ago he said that Mahinda Rajapaksa and the UPFA had the hardware (the state apparatus) while he and the UNP had the software (strategies to turn things around). When I read the headline ‘Mahinda has the hardware, I have the software,’ I could almost hear a chorus of voices interjecting, ‘that is not news’.

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The global crisis of water scarcity

While climate change has captured the headlines, the growing scarcity of water is an even more immediate crisis as many countries are running out of freshwater supplies, threatening human health and causing conflicts between nations

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JVP fear psychosis - Part II:

Fear psychosis reaches peak

Rs 22m Wellawatte bank robbery planned beside Colombo Blood Bank:

It was February 7, 1989 and the JVP fear psychosis at its peak, the upturn before the downswing and final disaster, which resulted in the elimination of its leadership who had been transformed in two short years from tub-thumping socialites into land owning capitalists and Mafia-style killers. The article is the second of the series titled JVP fear psychosis. The first part was published yesterday

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