Tamils know reconciliation and redevelopment is real -
Ambassador Wickramasuriya
The US government has voiced its concern about
the Darusman Report. Those who have followed Sri Lanka know that the
allegations in it are stale ones that the LTTE has made before. The
fact is that some people are spreading a negative story about Sri
Lanka because they have a negative agenda. They see the successes in
Sri Lanka and they know that their dream of more violence and strife
is slipping away as people who suffered through years of conflict
embrace peace,
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Nature - the best teacher of Man!
People have a tendency to believe that nature is something that we
leave behind in our sojourn towards development and modern civilization.
This is necessarily because the ancient man came from the jungle and he
now lives in modern cities and thus in our thinking we always equate the
jungle to nature and modern cities to development. Hence the concept of
development or civilization appears the anti thesis of nature.
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Socio-political dimension of English in Sri Lanka
Revisiting the four principles underpinning the
Presidential Initiative: English as a Life Skill:
People have to be empowered with the
competencies to read, write and above all to speak in English. This
is essential both for their upward mobility as well as for the
forward march of our country. Achieving the aforesaid goal in scale
will be in an environment that just cannot bear the huge cost for
doing so in the short run. Skillful management of time frame and an
almost passionate commitment to the principle of social equity are
of the highest importance,
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