‘No reduction in Japanese assistance to SL, despite quake
crisis’
Japan is the largest donor of Sri Lanka in terms
of grants and soft loans for development of infrastructure, schools,
hospitals etc. An economically strong Japan would be definitely
beneficial for Sri Lanka,
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A time to go down on my knees and show veneration
I often visit the Beatitudes or ‘Be-attitudes’,
reflect on them and find them inspiring. They do not in any way
contradict the be-attitudes contained in what to me is the
incomparable called the Buddha-Vachana or ‘Word of our Budunwahanse’,
when one takes ‘God’ as metaphor and/or a cultural or faith-related
explanatory or framing devise. I am not belittling the notion or the
faith, let me hasten to add. I am perhaps too poor in word use to
write in a way that guarantees no offence is taken,
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Diaspora and discrimination
There is also a common myth that Tamil is an
official language only in the North and East. However, a glance at
articles 18 to 25 of the constitution make it quite clear that
Sinhala and Tamil are equally official languages, national
languages, languages of instruction, languages of administration and
languages of the courts.
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