Once in a lifetime experience

I saw a teenage girl sitting in the cockpit of a MI 24. To be accurate she was in the seat of the co-pilot or gunner pilot. She was ready to fire. For once, I thought I was watching a Hollywood movie. This is what you get to experience at the Sri Lanka Air Force exhibition organized to celebrate its 60th anniversary. It is now open to the public from 10 am to 11 pm until March 8.

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I might never see Govinnaswamy Anthony Suresh again

I am friends with many three-wheel communities. If I were to work somewhere for an extended period of time I end up going somewhere in one of the ‘three-wheelers’ nearby and after a while, courtesy chit-chat and ennam (see you sometime), there is exchange of life-slices. Both ways. I don’t know all their names but this does not mean I know nothing of their lives. Some are closer than others on account of greater frequency of contact or more stimulating conversation. Among them is a man called Govinnaswamy Anthony Suresh.

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Australia unmasked:

Secrets of Australian immigration history

Modern Australia does not want the world to know their racist past and take extraordinary steps to hide their ugly past. Australians want to project the country to the world as a modern multi-cultural nation that promote Australian ‘mateship’ and equality to all of their citizens. Unfortunately this is far from the truth and Australia and Australians have a long way to go as a nation that constitutes equality among their citizens irrespective of their ethnicity.

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