The promise and potential for reconciliation
Andrew Marvell was writing about love or rather,
to be blunt, sex. In talking about reconciliation, I should also be
talking about love, or rather about charity, the Greek word Caritas
as in the enormously helpful NGO of that name which refers to that
universal loving kindness which the Buddhist concept of metta also
encompasses.
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Political Revery
Pandemonium in Parliament
Soon after Papua New Guinea got its independence
from Australia, the Speaker of the National Parliament pleaded with
members to preserve the decorum of the House by refraining from
attending dressed in cowboy boots and hat. This gave rise, elsewhere
to many unfair jokes on the lines of ‘and while you are about it,
please desist from eating the other members’.
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‘Code of conduct for media should emerge from within’
The national television, Sri Lanka Rupavahini
Corporation telecast current affairs with responsibility and
accurately. It builds a broad and disciplined dialogue which leads
to solve social problems. The SLRC telecasts programmes which lead
to the development of children, provides mental solace to the public
and promotes social development. It does not put youths and children
into the market for sale. It protects languages,
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