‘Join in developing the country to avoid another war’

This is the best time to solve the ethnic issue and that is through a Parliamentary Select Committee. Both President Mahinda Rajapaksa and the Tamil community wish to implement the 13th amendment. There is no strong opposition from the Sinhala people for this now, because Sinhala people guarantee the rights of the Tamil people.

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Have you heard of the Hokandara Wala (Pit)?

This morning (Sunday, August 14, 2011), on my way to Malabe in a three-wheeler, I stopped for breakfast at a wayside boutique in Hokandara. A few stringhoppers with a white potato curry and sambol was downed in a few minutes. Then a cup of plain tea. The opposite side of the road was as pastoral as an urbanizing landscape could be. Paddy fields and through them a newly tarred road that must have been little more than a guru paara not too long ago. Tree-line at the far end and above it all dawn yielding to the more insistent warmth of the rising sun. Made for reflection.

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Sins that become sweet

Gnanasunderam Kuhanathan is a 59-years-old media personnel. He is a father of five. Four of them are males. This family meets their day-to-day needs with the help of the salary being received by Kuhanathan.

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