Challenges ahead

The upcoming general election is of special significance as it is the first time we to elect our representatives to Parliament after the dawn of peace. At the Presidential Election held in January, a vast majority of Sri Lankans approved President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s manifesto Mahinda Chinthana- Idiri Dekma (Vision for the Future) and voted him for a second term.

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The Morning Inspection

English as ‘fork and spoon’ or as hiramanay

There are ‘academics’ who are heavily over-dosed by the ‘magic’ of deconstruction, subaltern studies, postmodernism and feminism. They tend to be so Anglicised that they not only see ‘West’ as magic,

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National sovereignty inviolable, important

The matters relating to the concept of national sovereignty raised by Dr Nihal Jayawickrama in a recent Sunday newspaper article deserve comment and response due to the sacrosanct nature of sovereignty to the developing countries of the world.

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