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EDITORIALS

  • Dec- 2021 -
    2 December

    STATE OF THE NATION

    Aquatrain in Dhammapada characterises our blessed isle’s welfare as being conditional. So when a brace of these crumble

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  • 2 December

    COP26 MEETING

    Most of the world’s citizens had very little hope that any positive outcomes would emerge as result of an overrated and overhyped

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  • Nov- 2021 -
    25 November

    LEGAL REFORMS

    The appointment of a presidential task force to take the One Country, One Law concept forward has generated a divisive debate

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  • Oct- 2021 -
    28 October

    THE BIG PICTURE

    One doesn’t have to be famous to live the red carpet moment – not here in Sri Lanka, which has one for the infamous too! In early September, the powers

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  • 28 October

    THE PANDORA PAPERS

    Pandora in Greek mythology had a box that once opened, and unleashed all manner of misery and evil known to humankind. The ancient myth has yet again

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  • 28 October

    STATE OF THE NATION

    Sri Lanka stares into the bankruptcy abyss whilst battling economic and sociopolitical fires, and whether it’ll survive is a matter of conjecture. Let the monetary

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  • 28 October

    NATIONAL RECONCILIATION

    The significance of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s speech at the UN General Assembly in New York City was his use of the allocated time to outline the

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  • 25 October

    PANDEMIC RESPONSE

    Nothing could have prepared the world for the COVID-19 pandemic declared by the WHO on 11 March last year. It literally brought the world to a stop as countries

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  • Sep- 2021 -
    30 September

    THE BIG PICTURE

    The headline news in the mainstream media in these crisis ridden times not only reflects an economy off the rails but the

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  • 30 September

    STATE OF THE NATION

    A country on the brink of disaster cannot afford the luxury of reflection. Or so its citizens and governors may feel or think. Yet

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