All clothes and no emperor

Selvarasa Pathmanathan, better known as KP proclaimed himself LTTE leader after Tiger supremo Prabakaran’s demise. KP chose Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran, a US based lawyer who was one time legal adviser to the LTTE negotiating team with the Government and later its unofficial ideologue after Anton Balasingham’s death.

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The truth lies in the sixth ‘O’ of Goooooooooooooooogle

We live in a world of claims. Look around you. You are being greeted by countless ‘I am this, that and the other’ signs. Corporate entities, political parties, politicians, do-gooders, faith healers, tuition masters.

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Heading for sustainable food security

We are getting into an era of high-yielding, disease and insect resistant varieties of crops as a rule now in Asia. Sri Lanka’s Mahaveli farmers had harvested successive good crop seasons in a row. Years of sustained growth policies have paid off.

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