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April 1971 JVP Uprising: Not to Make the Same Mistakes
Posted by Sri Lanka Guardian| by Laksiri Fernando( April 3, 2013, Sydney, Sri Lanka Guardian) It was still Ceylon. The JVP cadres were supposed to attack all possible police stations simultaneously on...
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Non Sinhala Heroes Of “The Sinhala Army”
( April 1, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Back in the days of the war, there was a popular saying in the south; සිංහලයාට සති දෙකකින් සියල්ල අමතකය (Sinhalese tend to forget in two weeks). While we...
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Swamy’s Scheme
Why Mr.Subramniya Swamy is coming to the defence of Sri Lankan High Commissioner, Mr.Prasad Kariyavasam ? | by L. Annadoure( April 2, 2013, Chennai, Sri Lanka Guardian) The Sri Lankan diplomatic...
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13th Amendment - President Rajapaksa can barter his Waterloo?
Posted by Sri Lanka Guardian| by Upasiri de Silva( April 3, 2013, Melbourne, Sri Lanka Guardian) 13th Amendment, created Provincial Councils (PCs) in Sri Lanka, and helped to change the Sri Lankan...
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China’s Shadow Bankers and the Vampire Squid
Posted by Sri Lanka GuardianHard Landing in China? It's Just a Matter of Time| by Mike Whitney“China is displaying the same three symptoms that Japan, the U.S. and parts of Europe all showed before...
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The Tyrant Diaries From the memoirs of a French adventurer who served at...
opinion In December 8, 1988, an old trunk was discovered in the attic of the house of Elaine de la Taille Tretinville, who died at 91 in her 14th arrondissement flat in Paris. She was a descendant of...
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Society delhi Pearly Gates? Delhi’s Chhatarpur farmhouses are the playpens of...
Sanjay RawatBang for the buck Ponty’s farmhouseAmong the BMWs, Audis, helipads, swimming pools and other assorted bric-a-brac that enlivens the farmhouses of Chhatarpur in outer Delhi, lives a shy...
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Tribhuvan Tiwari First Person 'All I Wanted Was A Moment Alone, To Sit And...
Tribhuvan Tiwari First Person "We had never met but not a single day in those 14 years passed without a telephonic interaction with him. I am still in touch with his daughter, grandsons and...
View ArticleWhy SC ruling won't bring down drug prices ET
NEW DELHI: The Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance, a Mumbai-based lobby comprising the who's who of India's generics industry, would have felt vindicated early in the week. When India's 'new' patents law...
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Sri Lanka win at Asian 5 Nations RugbySri Lanka beat Kazakhstan 49-18 to win the Division 1 of the 2013 HSBC Asian Five Nations rugby tournament at Havelocks Grounds, Colombo yesterday. In the picture...
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The politics of electricity tariffs
April 6, 2013, 7:13 pmThe much talked about electricity tariff increase will come next week. Basically, all the horror stories we have been hearing from politicians in recent weeks about this proposed...
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A different world
April 6, 2013, 5:14 pmby Capt Elmo JayawardenaI had a visitor to my home recently. He was born in Dallas, Texas and travels with a US passport. Fifteen months in age and the said Texan now lives with...
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Remembering Lakshman Kadirgamar
April 6, 2013, 5:22 pmMy Island in the Sun By Dr. Sanjiva WijesinhaAddress for correspondence: Lakmahal, 8 Alfred HouseRoad, Colombo 3.I had the opportunity recently of browsing through a book entitled...
View ArticleThe government’s Foreign Policy
April 6, 2013, 6:58 pmby Izeth HussainI read in a newspaper an account of a recent meeting on the Government’s foreign policy, in which several ex-Ambassadors and others had participated. The outcome...
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"The silent majority" : sharing some thoughts
April 6, 2013, 6:59 pmby Charles Ponnuthurai Sarvan"The majority of Sri Lankans are fair-minded, decent and generous. This majority shouldn’t be silent but, for the sake of the Island, unite and fight...
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A political analysis of anti-Muslim mobilisation
Isn’t religion the opium of the masses?April 6, 2013, 7:00 pmBuddhist monks taking part in a demonstrtionKumar DavidAverting an outbreak of full-blown anti-Muslim violence, or to be more precise,...
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The attack on religious freedoms unleashes uncontrolable dangers
April 6, 2013, 7:05 pmTHE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SRI LANKA 39TH ANNUAL CONVOCATION INDUCTION OF Mr. UPUL JAYASURIYA as PRESIDENT FOR 2013/2014 On 30th March 2013 at 5 pm. At the Navarangahala, Royal...
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A welcome gavel blowApril 6, 2013, 6:58 pmRoads are more than hard surfaces constructed for vehicles as pedestrians to travel along. They also serve as indicators. They reflect the national psyche of...
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Corporate kinship with brother to lift Mukesh's RIL by Rs 12,000 cr Cost of...
The infrastructure-sharing deal between Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and Anil Ambani-led Reliance Communications (RCom) has turned out to be a bonanza for RIL - it has managed to...
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Pakistan approves Musharraf election candidacy bid
Gen Musharraf dismisses the criminal charges he is facing as "baseless"Pakistan has given former military leader Pervez Musharraf the go-ahead to run in general elections next month.Gen Musharraf will...
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