Globalization, development and geography - Part II:

Primacy of social protection

Keynote Address delivered by Emeritus Professor M. M. Karunanayake at the Fifth National Geography Conference August, 2012 convened by the Sri Lanka Association of Geographers in collaboration with the Department of Geography at the University of Kelaniya,

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Evolving a service culture

During location filming of the iconic Monty Python television comedy series, the cast stayed at a hotel in the English seaside town of Torquay. The idiosyncratic behaviour of the manager caught the eye of actor and screenwriter John Cleese.

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Imagined communal hostilities and historiography

A persistent myth, which has helped create disharmony in Sri Lanka, is that the Sinhalese and Tamils have had a continuous history of mutual antagonism from the earliest past. In fact, ethnic enmity in Sri Lanka has modern roots, based in the divisive race politics of the British colonial power.

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