Over the skies of Kandy
Domestic airports should be available to people
in places like Kurunegala. Mahiyangana, Nuwara Eliya and most of all
Kandy, the second most important city in this country. Kandy was
also the last capital of the Sinhala Kingdom and the palce boasts of
its historical, political, cultural and scenic value.
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The Morning Inspection
On the beginning and end of stories, of you, I and us
We are like water. We are shaped by the
containers we find ourselves in. If we stop and wonder if we really
are who we think we are we might find we are part of those we
intensely dislike
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On My Watch
Shiploads of fraud take shine off asylum drama
What’s happening today is the reverse of the
mice leading a sinking ship. Boatloads of people are jumping off a
country fast on the rise; scampering away from a land trying to
achieve reconciliation under conditions of peace.
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Noble ideas, feel-good moments
Discussion of MDGs should not come at the expense
of the truth:
When the United Nations Millennium Development
Goals were first declared, they were met with a sense of promise. A
decade later, despite all the official insistence that all is on
track, it is increasingly clear that this approach to development
was flawed from the onset
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