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Is Mahinda A Closet UNPer?
For one week starting tomorrow, Sri Lankans morning, noon and night will be force-fed a diet of how great their leader is. Hosannas will be sung praising him to high heaven, military parades will be...
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Colombo: Closed For Business
The Finance Minister according to recent reports is not happy with the performance of the Board of Investment (BOI) and is even contemplating scrapping the institution all-together come the next budget...
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The Battle To Be The Chief Opponent
He came, he conquered and he has now settled down to rule happily ever after. By all accounts, the President is a happy man with at least six years to go without a care in the world. With the...
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Miracle In The Making
It is the first week of December and what has been quite an eventful year is coming to a close. As such, a little reminiscing of the year that was, is in order. Kicking off the year 2010 was the...
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The Absence Of Accountability
It has been just two weeks since the final budget vote was taken and already the entire exercise is a distant memory in the collective Sri Lankan psyche. Such is the importance we accord to issues that...
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Needed: A Police To Police The Police
In a rare case of efficiency the police has managed to round up the mastermind and most of his accomplices in the biggest robbery in Sri Lanka’s history, the Rs 70 million ATM cash heist a few months...
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The Northern Imbroglio
Last week this column lamented that there was hardly any coverage of the crime wave sweeping the north in the English and Sinhala media. Lo and behold, beginning the very next day, Monday and...
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Born Suckers
When it comes to political promises, Sri Lankans are born suckers. From S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike’s ‘Sinhala Only’ Utopia to his wife Sirimavo’s ‘Rice from the Moon’ to J.R. Jayewardene’s ‘Dharmishta...
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National ‘Attitude’ Problem
Almost every part of Sri Lanka has seen some form of flooding in the last one year. While there is absolutely no argument about the unprecedented quantum of rain that has fallen on the island during...
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Getting Away With The Numbers Game
Not so long ago most young Sri Lankan students wanted to end up in one of three professions – medicine, engineering or law – in that particular order. Then somewhere between J. R. Jayewardene’s open...
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