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by Goolbai Gunasekera The Sinhalese population of Sri Lanka is approximately 16.5 million. Yet sadly, generations of children in this tiny, tiny proportion of the global population have little or no global contact. They speak no global link language despite having had an excellent language system in place at the time of Independence. Many of […]
by Vijaya Chandrasoma I have used a variance of the catchphrase, “It’s the Economy, Stupid”, which became the mantra of the successful Clinton presidential campaign in 1992, when the US was facing an economic recession during the presidency of George H.W. Bush. The slogan served to highlight and exploit one key issue in the minds […]
by Vijaya Chandrasoma In yet another cynical exhibition of its contempt for gun control regulations, the National Rifle Association proceeded with its scheduled 2022 annual convention in Houston, Texas on Friday, May 27 through Sunday May 29, over the Memorial Day weekend. The venue of the conference, a four-hour drive from the scene of the […]
by Vijaya Chandrasoma As teenagers living and studying in London in the late 50s, Sunday afternoons were invariably spent in that famous and sacred area devoted to enshrine the fundamental human right of freedom of speech and assembly, the hallmark of democracy; then, as now, celebrated in Speakers’ Corner, located on the northern end of […]