SL not ducking posers put by world

The invitation to Navanetham Pillay was not the result of the Resolution; it had nothing whatever to do with the Resolution. We had invited her in writing before that. She accepted the invitation in principle and said that, in her view, to get the maximum benefit out of the visit, she should visit our country after the Report of the LLRC is available. She has now written to us saying she would be happy to come but she wishes to send a technical officer, a member of her staff, to this country to prepare the ground for her visit.

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Cashing in on colonial chic

The advent of the European colonialist powers had catastrophic economic, social and ecological consequences for Sri Lanka. The laid-back culture of the island was smashed and the population faced over four centuries of exploitation and colour-based discrimination.

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The dengue problem

While acknowledging that the dengue problem is a serious one that must be wiped out, I am not sure of the strategy being employed. I feel it should be (i) An all year effort - not dengue months, etc. (ii) It should be teamwork aimed at wiping out dengue mosquito breeding sites.

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Revisiting PWC - Part V

Although there were several ‘hard nuts’ with ‘light fingers’ at our college, there was always an unwritten law that no one should steal from classmates. Whenever there was any such misdeed our drawing master became a self appointed ‘criminal investigator’ with his remarkable psychological tactics. Apart from his yarns, he was very popular for his self-styled investigations and earned another nickname as the ‘PWC CID’.

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