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Nov 15, 2022 · Prof S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole. A Contrarian Review: Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, London: Sort of Books, August, 2022. The book under review is authored by one described as one of Sri Lanka’s foremost literary authors. According to the blurbs on the book, he emerged on to the global literary stage in 2011, when he won ...
Jul 25, 2021 · Rajan Philips. Professor Kumar David will be turning 80 later this week, on July 29. He is most familiar to readers of the Sunday Island as one of its regular columnists – trenchant, funny, irreverent, provocative, but always well informed and substantial. Most readers also know that Kumar David is a great deal more than a weekly columnist.
Aug 29, 2022 · Both Ranil and Dinesh have a past; however much that past is pleasant or unpleasant, it is the past. Today’s generations have a future and they know that those who are entrenched in the past cannot see the future, leave alone finding solutions to future problems. Ranil and Dinesh put together are not pillars of success, they, in fact are ...
Apr 11, 2014 · Rajan Hoole. The 1990s: The Culture of Untruth and a Perilous Vacuum Part 2. To a Government used to thriving on crises, the assassination of Ranjan Wijeratne came as both a setback and an opportunity. He was killed in a car bomb blast in Havelock Road on 2nd March 1991. Killed along with him were 25 civilians and 6 STF men who were in his escort.
The Port of Colombo 1860–1939, K. Dharmasena, 1980 (Lake House, Colombo) Decolonizing Ceylon: Colonialism, Nationalism and the Politics of Space in Sri Lanka, by Nihal Perera, 1999 (Oxford University Press) the Essential guide for Colombo and its region, Philippe Fabry, Negombo, Viator Publications, 2011, 175 p., ISBN 978-955-8736-09-8
Jul 21, 2022 · Ranil Rajapaksa Interregnum. By Ameer Ali –. “Politics is the art of the possible”, said the 19 th century German statesman Otto Von Bismarck, and Ranil Wickremesinghe (RW) is the embodiment of that truism. How else could one describe this man’s mercurial rise from a zero to hero within a matter of two and a half years and without any ...
Jan 18, 2023 · By Harsha Gunasena –. The Attorney General (AG) is the principal legal officer who represents the state in legal proceedings and gives legal advice to the government. In addition to that AG is the Public Prosecutor. In cases of corruption, it is required that the same AG conduct the prosecution of government entities or officials.
