Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) supremo Veluppillai Prabhakaran along with many senior LTTE leaders was killed in the military confrontation with Sri Lanka’s armed forces in May 2009. With that military
Click here to read the Third Part of this series Self-employment Self-employment would be an answer for people with high-demand skills, such as carpentry, masonry plumbing, electrical works, etc. People in those
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Click here to read the Second Part of this series The IMF prescription of direct cash grants for the poor may work satisfactorily if the poor segment is small. It may be
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Click here to read the part one of this series Though the terminology was not used, Sri Lanka had paid attention to poverty alleviation since the pre-independent era, much before the initiatives
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This series engages in a thorough exploration of strategies to alleviate poverty, critically examining the limitations of previous plans implemented by successive governments in Sri Lanka. It aims to propose a comprehensive
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INTRODUCTION Throughout history, there have been incidents of genocide on particular people often based on religion. The most horrific one has been the Holocaust by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany which still stirs
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‘Control oil and you control the nations; control food and you control the people…’— Henry Kissinger Population growth and national security In April 1974, as a worldwide drought and the transformation of
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Ages back I had written an article that was published by the late lamented Subramanium Sundaram in the magazine of SAAG( South Asian Analysis Group) in which I had tried to portray
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Why should we explore caves and excavate fossils? Why should we seek more information about our origins? And what can the first women and men tell us about the human condition? Reading
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Kissinger, one of the most influential figures in 20th-century diplomacy, A man who navigated the complexities of international relations during a turbulent period in world history, left behind a legacy that continues
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No one does a stadium show like Roger Waters. The music, of course, is resplendent, but so too are the soundscape, the images, the giant sheep and pig, the lasers, the films,
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