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Sri Lanka Guardian Essays - Page 3

September 20, 2022
Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

The CIA is not your friend

“Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation

Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

Are these floods in Pakistan an ‘act of God’?

Calamities are familiar to the people of Pakistan who have struggled through several catastrophic earthquakes, including those in 2005, 2013, and 2015 (to name the most damaging), as well as the horrendous floods of 2010. However, nothing could prepare the

September 9, 2022

Pakistan at 75: Jinnah’s Legacy in Perspective

Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

We start, though one never should, with an alternative universe: imagine if Gandhi didn’t really want freedom for India. Go further afield: imagine if

Sri Lanka: Storytelling as a Tool for Healing and Empowerment

Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

THE LONG READ by Our Cultural Affairs Editor “Tell me a fact and I’ll learn. Tell me a truth and I’ll believe. But tell

A very happy New Year 2023 to Sri Lanka and its people

December 30, 2022
Culture/Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

I am writing from Dhaka, Bangladesh. I wish a very happy New Year 2023 to Sri Lanka and its people. In the New Year-2023, Sri Lankans will need to put extra efforts

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Sri Lanka: Living with the Hope in Precarious times

December 23, 2022
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Following is the keynote address delivered at the launch of the Junior Bar Journal on the theme ‘Law in context: Current trends and future projections’ held on 16 December We live in

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Sri Lanka: Deconstructing Sinhala Psyche

December 3, 2022
Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

Sarath Weerasekera M.P. has said that I lived 65 years among the Sinhalese but I’m now saying Sinhalese cannot live in the North. He has also said that the Tamils should not

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Lalith: A Beacon of Nation-building

November 26, 2022
Politics/Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

Following article is based on the keynote speech by the author as the President of Sri Lanka at the late Lalith Athulathmudali commemoration held recently in Colombo. I was thinking about when

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Global Peace and Humanity: We, the People are Victims of Failed Global Leadership

November 22, 2022
Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

Cop 27 has just ended in Sharm el-Shaikh (Egypt) without any candid measures to deal with a readily available “Time Bomb”, of climate change affecting all and everything that is living on

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The Four Front+ War or World War III: A Sketch

November 21, 2022
Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

The dysfunctional, aged President of the United States slowly made his way up to the rostrum in the US House of Representatives. All 535 Members of Congress were in attendance along with

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Exclusive: Sino-Lanka Everlasting Friendship for Greater Rejuvenation

November 17, 2022
Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

The following essay is based on the speech made by the author at the Parliament of Sri Lanka recently, during his maiden official visit to Sri Lanka Thank you for your invitation

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Sri Lanka:  Correct The Price Distortion for A Sustainable Development – Part 2

November 15, 2022
Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

This is the second part of this series by the author, Click here to read the first part -Editors Water Supply Providing safe drinking water and improved sanitation services have been the government’s

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What Sri Lanka Can Learn from China’s Bitter Experience

November 9, 2022
Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

The following article, describing the economic growth of China, extracts information from “The Power of Capitalism” by Rainer Zitelmann. The reader is encouraged to refer to this book for more details and

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Ukraine: Zelensky’s Politics of Contrast

November 2, 2022
Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

According to a New York Times report of March 1985, former president Ronald Reagan had this to say about the infamous Nicaraguan Contras (guerrillas) who were opposing the Sandinista Communists in that

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