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The Bar Association of Sri Lanka has asked the government to provide the complete and unedited video recording of a meeting held between President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and representatives of the association
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Five years after the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, the country’s education crisis is becoming a wider threat to its social and economic future. Girls remain barred from school beyond the
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This article is adapted and abridged from a speech delivered by the author at the Sarmaya Art Foundation, Mumbai, on 8 August 2026. The text is based on the author’s two books
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