Obama’s mini revolution

After the gruelling, 6-billion presidential election, America is sitting in the afterglow of a comparatively quiet revolution which has happened with a narrow margin, leaving exhausted America panting and growling in two polarised camps.

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Sri Lanka Rights Watch

Devolution, Decentralisation, Districts and Dudley

Recent heated statements about the 13th Amendment confirm the view, heard recently at the Seminar on Indo-Lankan relations held at Osmania University in Hyderabad, that most commentators look on issues through a single prism.

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Asoka Weeraratna _ Germany’s ‘Mahinda Thera’

It is when one takes into consideration the scenario of West Germany in the aftermath of the two World Wars – bruised, battered and in political isolation with a bad image to boot, that the arduous task of Asoka Weeraratna could be best appreciated. The message of the Dhamma taken to Germany by the German Dharmaduta Society that he founded, Sanghamitta

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