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By Damith Jayasekara
Since time immemorial, people have been entertaining themselves by retailing and detailing stories and listening to anecdotes narrated by others. Among them are stories about how everything in the world started. Most of them are religious creation myths and some others, irreligious folklore or urban myths without a semblance of realistic grounding anent scientific temper...
Almost every sign of every domain in the country betrays the rot. The irony is that those who came to power to eliminate so called excesses were caught wallowing in mud in a pigsty, not at their cost, but at the cost of the nation. Their words and deeds made people believe that they were merely incompetent in governance and not more; lo and behold, even worse, the lot...
Leaving the needy behind is a burden on the country, irresponsibility of a society and a nursery ground for anti-social elements, such as drug addicts, peddlers and even underworld gangsters.
Recent media reports on families of abject poverty exposed some darker aspects of Sri Lanka even after 70 years of independence. However, children of some of such families emerging...
The recently held Presidential Election has been the only Presidential Election in Sri Lanka, at which the program of the candidate mattered, throwing partisan politics out of the window and raising hopes for an advanced country.
The country had been marooned in critical domains, such as education, economic development and civic-mindedness for well over half a century...
By Damith Jayasekara
Investors seek a secure environment to invest their money, expecting better returns and as a corollary to better investment, an...
People have lifted a visionary to the position of the highest authority in the country. While President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has a...
Sovereignty is an abstract concept while democracy or democratic rule is contingent upon the opinion of the majority, and for the...