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LankaWeb – Why Sri Lanka is accustomed to playing China against India and leveraging on its locational advantage

LankaWeb – Why Sri Lanka is accustomed to playing China against India and leveraging on its locational advantage
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Beijing bares it in Jaffna, warms up to Tamils in Sri Lanka

Taking off their shirts and wearing traditional white veshtis, the bare-chested men, carrying trays laden with fruit and puja offerings, entered the temple. Nothing unusual because that’s the practice at the Nallur Kandaswamy Kovil, a temple near Jaffna in Sri Lanka. But the man who dressed as a devotee and led the others into the […]

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Holes in the Kindlesphere

Holes in the Kindlesphere
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LankaWeb – THE JAFFNA PUBLIC LIBRARY Pt 3

LankaWeb – THE JAFFNA PUBLIC LIBRARY Pt 3
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Rotten Creeds, Failed Gods

“A leader is found! Yet cautiously to myself I ask, a leader to where? Despair overthrown often turns us in mad directions.” Katharine Kressmann Taylor (Address unknown) In Brother Grimm’s Little Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty), the twelve wise women invited to the birthday feast gift the baby princess with “everything in the world that one can wish for.” A magical intervention of similar magnitude would be necessary to create the kind of leader who can use with moderation and efficacy and for greater good the enormous powers of Sri Lanka’s executive presidency. Our titanic presidency is a bad fit for mortals. The crown slips down covering the eyes, blinding the wearer. The mantle entangles the arms hampering efficient movement. Near divine powers are thus wielded by a mortal deprived of ordinary sight and ordinary efficacy by the weight of those very powers. How can anything but disaster ensue?

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