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Healthy human habitat:
Role of community
World Town Planning Day today:
The WTPD was founded by Professor Paolera of
Buenos Aires University in 1949 with a view to attract public and
professional interest both locally and internationally to the art
and science of town and country planning and emphasize its positive
impact on the development of habitable human settlements.
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A thank-you note to Ravaya
The Sinhala weekly, Ravaya, celebrated its 24th
birthday this week. It was the successor to a magazine by the same
name, founded and edited by Victor Ivan, a colourful, evergreen and
enduring presence in one way or another in the Sri Lankan political
firmament.
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Imperative national requisite
How astounding it was that after writing in this
column on October 25 about Dr Abdul Kalam, the 11th President of
India, regarded as the ‘missile man of India,’ who strongly
advocates an action plan to develop his Motherland into a knowledge
super power and to a developed nation, I had the rare opportunity of
listening to one of our own ‘Action Men’, Dr Ajith C S Perera,
giving a live discourse with equal vim and vigour about our own
Motherland focusing on the subject, ‘not to miss opportunities in
our hands in promoting a sustainable national economy’.
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