Day: February 19, 2023
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Feb- 2023 -19 FebruaryUncategorized
EDUCATING SRI LANKA
WHITHER EDUCATION? Credentials of tertiary education institutes must be scrutinised BY Goolbai Gunasekara Never has education in Sri Lanka been so disorganised. This is not entirely the fault of the Department of Education. The island’s…
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19 FebruaryUncategorized
2022
Compelled to Declare Bankruptcy Asia’s oldest democracy turns insolvent The writing had been on the wall, hidden in plain sight for those with eyes to see. But the jury is still out on whether it…
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19 FebruaryUncategorized
2022
Sri Lankan Thespian Wins Olivier Award Wins ‘Best Actor’ for his stage portrayal of Pi “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players,” wrote the immortal Swan of Avon over…
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19 FebruaryUncategorized
2020
Sri Lankan Naturalist Honoured by Science Sri Lanka’s first to have a genus named after him “What’s in a name?” asked one of William Shakespeare’s most iconic characters, Juliet, waxing eloquent additionally: “That which we…
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19 FebruaryUncategorized
2020
COVID-19 Alarm Rings in Sri Lanka ‘Patient Zero’ is a 44-year-old foreigner The great poet had one of his most tortured characters say: “When troubles come, they come not single spies but in battalions.” But…
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19 FebruaryUncategorized
2019
A Sri Lankan Becomes President of the MCC Sangakkara first non-Brit to helm the club If you ask an islander to name someone who he or she thinks is a ‘world-class Sri Lankan,’ chances are…
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