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Success due to Bottom-up planning:
Speaking English Sri Lankan way
The national road map to take communicative
English skills across the country, the Presidential initiative -
‘English as a life skill’ was launched in June 2009. The program
aims at the dis-empowerment of English as a privilege of the elites
to be completed and instead to see the empowerment of a new ideology
of English as a life skill.
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On Marxism and Maskism, Marxists and Maskists and unbecoming
skins
‘Is it preordained, is it sacred or tragic that
moment when your mask replaces you forever?’ Some posters have a way
of standing out and not just because of colour or absence of
interfering competition. I saw one today. The line was so powerful
that even though it is a free ad for whoever put it up, I shall talk
about it.
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Investigations on David Miliband:
BBC dodges questions
Sri Lanka suffered from LTTE terrorism:
The Tissainayagam case that you refer to is
actually particularly interesting. I mean my Minister - I am no
longer Secretary - but my Minister actually visited him the day he
was arrested, made sure that his wife could see him, and as you know
he was pardoned, and I myself wrote at the time that we really
needed to sympathize with someone who was the victim of a lot of
pressures. But the simple fact is that, as the Indian journalist
Subramaniam Swamy put it, and I quote, ‘A lot of what he wrote was
simple LTTE - pure LTTE propaganda.’ Now the really sad thing is a
lot of this stuff was funded by the British Government and (Nik
keeps interrupting) look Nik, I think you really should try to
investigate what the British Government was doing on this.
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