AGRICULTURE REFORMS
Many agricultural policies since Sri Lanka’s independence were based on populist political movements that appealed to the rural masses whose vote was critical in the electoral process
SO SRI LANKA
Once an isolated village shut away from the world due to its hilly surrounds and the encircling Badulu Oya, and then popularised by the British as the last station
STATE OF THE NATION
Not to be so blasé as babble about the weather but there’s a chill in the air… and it isn’t that ‘the north wind doth blow and we shall have snow.’ There is a cold front