World anti-drugs day and our own Mathata Thita

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is the principal arm of the UN in the global fight against drugs. The UNODC with its Narcotics Laboratory and the scientific research division along with its training and enforcement divisions is logistically and scientifically equipped to lead the global fight against this scourge of narcotic drugs.

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I do not understand image but I am glad others do

I have never really understood ‘visuals’. I realized this most acutely when I started working as a part time copywriter at Phoenix Ogilvy. I could put word to image but could never imagine appropriate visual for text. Years ago, when I was working in the Sunday Island, Nihal Fernando, Lanka-lover who saw, worked, loved, respected and was through and of lens, suggested in his self-effacing and charming way that we work together on a project.

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A pincer move of oppression

The road to the Bandaranaike International Airport at Katunayake from the Colombo-Negombo Road is named Canada-Ceylon Friendship Road; a gesture of gratitude to Canada for stepping in to complete construction of the country’s only international airport, when the United States of America stopped all aid to then Ceylon, following nationalization of the petroleum bunkering and distribution business of three oil companies Shell, Caltex and Mobil, in 1962, when Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike was Prime Minister.

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