Sri Lanka’s experience and its lessons for the world
Sri Lanka, at the time we received Independence
from the British in 1948, was regarded as a model for economic
development in the whole Commonwealth. We were so described as by no
less a figure than Li Kwan Yu, the architect of modern Singapore, in
his famous autobiography “The Singapore Story: From Third World to
First”. In that book he says that in the early years, in his public
speeches, he used to ask the question, why cannot Singapore develop
like Ceylon, as the country was then called?
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On no-balling ourselves off the moral high ground
Malinda - The Morning Inspection
Suraj Randiv denied Virendra Sehwag a century in
a one-day international cricket encounter a few days ago by bowling
a no-ball. At that point in the game, the scores were level and
India needed just one run to win the game. Sehwag, who was on 99,
whacked Randiv’s no-ball for a six but alas according to the
rule-book, the match was over the moment Randiv stepped over the
line and the umpire shouted ‘No ball’. The six didn’t count and
Sehwag was denied a deserved century.
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Withdrawing from a wrecked country
American combat troops departed not in a display
causing shock and awe but in silence and darkness. They had arrived
on a monstrous lie, the claim that Iraq had Weapons of Mass
Destruction and they have left on a whopper. Over 50,000 US troops
are to remain in Iraq, and their numbers could rise to 70,000. They
will be called ‘Advise and Assist brigades’; they have warplanes and
helicopters and will accompany Iraqi troops into combat.
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