Dr. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake Fair is foul and foul is fair”— William Shakespeare, Macbeth Why are there no Booker Prize-winning novels about mundane multicultural families that inter-married for generations, shared religion/s, language/s, histories, and co-existed for centuries, while living in relative harmony in Ceylon/ Sri Lanka? Is the trope of ‘dark natives’ engaged in endless, chaotic […]

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e-Con e-New blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 28 July – 03 August 2024 * ‘There is no part of this earth’s surface perhaps about which more has been written than about the island of Ceylon.’ – JA Ferguson, 1898 * US Warship Michael Murphy (sounds like Irish blasphemy, but is part of the […]

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Rohana R. Wasala This is for the kind attention of my dear readers. When skimming through the article published in Lankaweb, I found some inadvertent errors that had survived my normal pre-emailing revision of the text. Please bear with me. I take this opportunity to amend only the following very misleading sentence that appeared towards […]

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Pathfinder Foundation -Pathfinder Foundation, Australian High Commission and NatStrat hold Track 1.5 Trilateral Roundtable on Maritime Security- Pathfinder Foundation and the Australian High Commission in Colombo co-hosted a Track 1.5 Trilateral Roundtable titled “Sri Lanka-India-Australia: Maritime Neighbours and Partners”. The event at the Australian High Commission brought together key stakeholders and experts to discuss pressing maritime security issues in the region. Theprogramme commenced with a welcome address by H. E. Paul Stephens, Australian High […]

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Courtesy Adaderana India is seeking customs duty concession on a number of goods including cars, commercial vehicles and machinery from Sri Lanka under a comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA), talks for which are underway, an official said. India has also sought easier visa norms to further facilitate entry of professionals from here, the official said. […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The leader of Mawbima Janatha Party (MJP), entrepreneur Dilith Jayaweera was named as the Presidential Candidate of the ‘Sarvajana Balaya’ alliance, a short while ago. Executive member of ‘Sarvajana Balaya’  MP Wimal Weerawansa announced this during the alliance’s convention currently being held at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium in Colombo. Several key members of […]

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