‘It’s time for a national government’

The country is facing a perilous situation with the LTTE’s sabre rattling and threats to recommence the war and the CWC closing ranks with it. In President Rajapakse we have a new style politician, someone who identifies with the people in every sense of the word just as D.S. Senanayake did. He does not appear to stand for confrontational politics but seeks consensus. We are sick and tired of old style politics and old style politicians. In this perilous hour it appears that President Rajapakse is a man who can bring about the unity we so urgently need to face this unprecedented crisis.

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Tsunami - hit women running a gauntlet of new challenges

They were paddy cultivators, string hopper makers or vegetable sellers before the tsunami struck exactly one-year ago. The killer waves wrecked their lives. The pain remains to this day, and some of the losses are permanent. But even so, many have sprung to life and picked up the lost threads, though some have been idling, depending on relief and grants. A few have taken to begging too.

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