Mauara reservoir brings prosperity to Ruhuna

Hambantota District’s largest irrigation scheme marks 9th anniversary:

The heritage of Ruhuna includes its golden soil. But it has not been fertile due to the acute scarcity of water. It was to solve this problem that the foundation was laid for the Mauara reservoir at Meegahajandura in 1997. But it did not become just another foundation stone only.

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Miliband’s baseless allegations

Taking Miliband seriously was a mistake that the British media now generally managed to avoid. It had to be noted that Miliband was an ambitious politician, who had to nurse his supporters, and that several Labour MPs were dependent on the votes of Tamils who they mistakenly assumed were LTTE supporters. There had been threats to withhold support from Labour, and naturally Labour leaders with personal ambitions had to respond. If Labour were defeated at the coming election, Miliband would present himself as the leading candidate to supplant Gordon Brown, and he needed to build up support for this.

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BACK TO BASICS – Renton de Alwis

Choice before us: Fish or nets to fish

I always admired Chinese pragmatism and the fine blend of India’s idealistic-realism. No nonsense, the Chinese take a way forward based on what’s good for the many and what can work best. Indians, on the other hand give us a blend of spiritual idealism and democratic means of dealing with ground realities; a masala which can not be concocted by any other. All may not seem to be well in both systems, especially when one attempts to judge them using dominantly held western measure-sticks we have acquired recently. Many flaws may be seen and critiques looking at bits of it can without doubt, thrive.

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