EDITORIALS
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INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT
The COVID-19 pandemic brought the world to a virtual standstill and Sri Lanka was certainly no exception. Accordingly
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ANTISOCIAL MEDIA
Did you hear the story about the Japanese Nobel Laureate who claimed that coronavirus was designed in a lab in Wuhan where he had once worked? I hope not!
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BLACK LIVES MATTER
Racism has always been an inescapable part of the American story. With a legacy of the slave trade, a civil war and persistent
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STATE OF THE NATION
A ‘C’ CHANGE: IT’S RICH AND STRANGE Wijith DeChickera notices how the COVID-19 pandemic has pressed transformation upon an unsuspecting globe and caused viral changes Viral plagues are nothing new…
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THE BIG PICTURE
Questions, debates and even anger abound on social media these days with the administration’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic taking centre
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THE GENERAL ELECTION
As was the case in the run-up to the November 2019 presidential election and earlier, there is a discernible rise in nationalist sentiment. The general election
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FOOD SECURITY
When islandwide curfews came into effect in Sri Lanka earlier this year amid concerns over the coronavirus outbreak, perhaps the main
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COVID-19 CLIFFHANGER
Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time compresses several billion years of the universe’s existence into about 200 pages. What we are collectively
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WORKING FROM HOME
In 1964, Sir Arthur C. Clarke addressed developments that he believed would comprise the ‘day after tomorrow’
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STATE OF THE NATION
June was once the month of bridals. Under pandemic conditions, it was hardly a time for sealing lasting relationships. However, romantic notions
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