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THOUGHT for the Day

Health and intellect are the two
blessings of life.
 - Menander

 

Making Sri Lanka a dynamic hub

Text of the speech by President Mahinda Rajapaksa to the Diplomatic Corps at the Presidential Secretariat, Colombo on May 10:

You would recall that several previous attempts were made to have negotiations for peace with the LTTE. On my own initiative, one of my first statements after assuming the office of President was to publicly confirm my readiness to meet with the leader of the LTTE. I sent senior delegates for negotiations at both Geneva and Oslo with great expectations. But those attempts proved to be fruitless.

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There is more to it than meets the eye

Here everyone has a role to play. Everyone’s bit counts. This is true, regardless of it being for the good of the society and communities around, as much as it is, when what it yields is bad and ugly. It’s all interwoven, interconnected and interdependent.

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Somethings get lost, some ‘lost-ed’

Years ago, as a young undergraduate, I was given a book by Arjuna Parakrama. It was called ‘Fire from the mountain: the making of a Sandinista’. It was the story of a rebel, the author, Omar Cabezas. It relates how Omar, at the time a student leader in the university is recruited by the Sandinistas and taken into the mountains to be trained to fight the guerrilla war against Somoza.

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