Ecuadorian Catholic priest Patricio Alfredo Sánchez Molinari was killed when a heavy crucifix and a statue of Jesus Christ fell from the wall behind the altar during a livestreamed Mass at the
“Already the snow falls…Karl Kraus words in verses III In his fifth labour, Heracles cleans the Augean Stables by rerouting the rivers Alpheus and Peneus through the filthy abode of King Augeas’
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“Not only our actions, but also our inactions, become our destiny.” ~ Heinrich Zimmer (The King and the Corpse) This week marked the 14th anniversary of the ending of the long Eelam
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“Too many things have happened that weren’t supposed to happen and what was supposed to come about has not.” ~ Wyslawa Szymborska – The Century’s Decline For a few hours in early
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by Tisaranee Gunasekara “Homo Sapiens is prone to orgies of stupidity, brutality, and destruction.”Martin Wolf (The crisis of democratic capitalism) So back in the Chalk Circle, but this time play ends in
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More “A tangle within, a tangle without…” ~ Jata Sutta – Samyutta Nikaya In July 2020, Indika Rathnayake, a non-theistic online activist, was summoned to the Organised Crimes Prevention Police Division and questioned
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“Winds don’t blow as ships desire.” ~ Arabic proverb Before Gotabaya Rajapaksa, there was SWRD Bandaranaike. Before Organic Only, there was Sinhala Only. And the related transformation of Vidyodaya and Vidyalankara from
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“We have not abandoned our people, neither will we do so.” ~ Mahinda Rajapaksa (Budget 2023, second reading debate) The seminal event of the 2023 Budget cycle was not Budget 2023. The
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“You are in the end – what you are.” ~ Goethe (Faust) 22 is not perfect. Far from it, perhaps light-years far. Yet, in a season of defeats and setbacks, it is
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“In a year of scarcity…Louis XV was hunting, as usual, in the forest of Sénart. He met a peasant carrying a bier and inquired… ‘For a man or a woman? A man.
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Was there then no essential difference between the ruler and the ruled?” ~ Salman Rushdie (The Enchantress of Florence) Sri Lanka, unravelled and unravelling, is mesmerised by a new wonder: the Lotus
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“What are we supposed to do when the system consistently yields terrible candidates?” Nanjala Nyabola (The Kenyan Kakistocracy – The Nation – 12.8.2022) Most politicians have a questionable relationship with reality. The
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To read the full series: [Part One] | [Part Two] | [Part Three] | [Part Four] | [Part Five] | [Part Six] Click Here to Read Part Four of This Series V
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To read the full series: [Part One] | [Part Two] | [Part Three] | [Part Four] | [Part Five] | [Part Six] Click Here to Read Part Three of This Series IV
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