By Shelton A. Gunaratne ƒ”š‚©2010 The San Francisco Bay Area (comprising nine counties, 101 cities, and 8,000 sq miles or 22,000 sq km) is home to some 7.4 million people. But the combined city-county of San Francisco (occupying a land area of 47 sq miles or 121 sq km) has a population of only about […]

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Ira de Silva London, Canada The Editor The Guardian U.K. ƒ”š‚  Dear Sir: ƒ”š‚  I just read the commentary by Nash Colundalur on Sri Lanka. The writers bias is evident in the very first sentence when heƒ”š‚ states that a bloody civil war followed an oppressive history of the Tamils. He has obviously read only the […]

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Press Release: Oxford University Sri Lanka Society History was created recently at the University of Oxford. Last Sunday (25th of April) witnessed the inauguration of a cricket series featuring the alumni of S. Thomas’ College Mount Lavinia and other prominent schools in the island. Themed “S. Thomas College OBA (UK) vs. Combined Sri Lankan Schools […]

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