Uprisings sweeping Middle East
Popular uprisings have been sweeping from Yemen
to Mauritania, shaking very foundations of regimes in the region
following the Tunisian uprising which overthrew Dictator Ben Ali -
something undreamt of only a month ago.
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Sithuvili is another name for serendipity
A few days ago I was walking down Leyn Baan
Street, Galle Fort, to a place called Serendipity Cafe. I had been
invited to an event that was taking place outside of the Galle
Literary Festival (GLF); ‘outside’ in that it was not included in
the GLF program. A book launch: Froteztologyby Marlon Ariyasinghe,
published by Juliet Coombe’s publishing outfit. That’s another
story.
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Social impact of Sinhala Only policy
Point of view:
Sinhala is the language of over 70 percent of
the population in Sri Lanka. For over 2,000 years Sinhala had been
the State language in our country. What the Language Act in 1956 did
was to replace Sinhala in the due place deposed by the British
colonial rulers who in 1815 and enthroned English in place of
Sinhala.
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