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by Dr Thilan U Hewage
“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job, you need, to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it” - Ellen Goodman
The use of the term ‘new normal’ has already become normal in our daily...
The Cambridge Dictionary defines the word ‘Society’ as ‘a large group of people who live together in an organised manner making decisions about how to do things and sharing the works that need to be done’. Etymological details show its origin from the Latin word ‘Socius’ which means ‘companion’ giving the basic meaning to the word ‘society’ as ‘companionship’.
Plato’s...
by Dr Thilan U Hewage
OPINION:
“The duty of a true patriot is to protect his country from its Government.” – Thomas PaineIn economics, an ‘Oligopoly’ is defined...
OPINION:
“The same man who does not want to see the Government interfere in business…is the first to go to Washington to ask the...
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” – William Arthur Ward...
No economy, no company, in fact no individual can develop its full potential today without embracing two fundamental trends –...
“I am perfectly serious when I suggest that one day we’ll have brain surgeons in Ediburgh operating on patients in New Zealand”...
“What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.” – Jean PiagetThe usage of the words ‘see’ and ‘know’...
“Ask not what your country can do for you.....ask what you can do for your country.” - John F. KennedyThis is arguably the...
Public-Private Partnership (PPP) has been the buzzword in development strategies for a couple of decades though it has existed...
I hope, by now, the reader can easily see that ragging/hazing/bullying, are not epidemics unique to the Sri Lankan state...
As I mentioned last week in Part IV of this analysis, most of the countries experiencing the destructive effects of this epidemic...
Part II of this analysis in the Sunday Observer, 12/04/2020, shared with you a couple of examples of physical / sexual...