The devil was once an angel! BEWARE those stiftungs...

Recent reports of the excuses given by some UNP politicians to the revelations that they participated in a workshop organised by the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung (FNF), a German group, on how to defeat the Sri Lankan government reminds of the sarcasm Mark Twain expressed when he quipped, “To succeed in life, you need two things - ignorance and confidence.”

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The extraordinary insights of Swami Vivekananda

150th birth anniversary:

On January 12, 2013 the President of India Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the 150th Birth anniversary celebrations of Swami Vivekananda at Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi in the presence of Congress President Sonia Gandhi and several Union Ministers. A set of commemorative coins and commemorative stamps on Swami Vivekananda were released on the occasion.

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