MahamahaRaja ƒ”š‚ What began in Libya as another seemingly run-of-the-mill “people’s revolution”ƒ”š‚ against a longstanding Middle Eastern dictator, has slowly degraded into something a lot more opaque. Perhaps it was the revelation that many of the “rebels”ƒ”š‚ were actually connected to al-Qaeda (1), or perhaps it was the realization that a large number of Afghan and […]

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Cricket Talk By Doosra Kumar! April 2nd 2011 It seems a pity to have to reflect in retrospect after Sri Lanka’s World Cupƒ”š‚  loss at Mumbaiƒ”š‚ that it was probablyƒ”š‚ a comedy of errors involvingƒ”š‚  theƒ”š‚ red handedƒ”š‚ Kumar Sangakkara as well as theƒ”š‚ Sri Lankan selectorsƒ”š‚ whose bungling relative to captaincy andƒ”š‚ the final team selection respectively that cost Sri Lanka […]

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By Mario Perera, Kadawata I must admit being deeply affected by our cricketers snatching defeat from the jaws of probable victory. When the final team selection was announced the foreign commentators summed it all up very succinctly. They said that the strength of Sri Lanka had all along been the bowling with its quota of […]

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Dr.Tilak Fernandoƒ”š‚  Three years ago a young man informed me how his attempts to seek an overseas job became a futile exercise after undergoing a rigorous procedure and his details were wiped out from official government computers after a lapse of one year. Notwithstanding he remained unruffled. In my quest to find out his composure […]

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Herold Leelawardena Leave out the names andƒ”š‚ acronyms; the government’s move to put an end to theƒ”š‚ Colombo Municipal Council is a good move. Just look at the comic opera that took place at its last election. Due to some of their own blunders, theƒ”š‚ UNP was barred by election commissioner from contesting elections in 2006. So, the […]

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