Malalasekera's dream - the World Fellowship of Buddhists
Watching, from my office window at the BMICH, the
limousines disgorging various foreign delegates for yet another
"international conference" my memory took me back to the very first
such gathering in "Ceylon" in 1950 - where I had the good fortune to
be a bit-player.
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The right way and the wrong way
THERE is a right way and a wrong way, and the
right way is usually the only way to succeed while the wrong way
almost certainly dooms you to fail. There is a right way to fight
the Tigers and a wrong way to do so, just as there is a right and
wrong way to fight for autonomy or federalism for the Tamils.
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Osama needs more mud huts
IMAGINE if a few months after September 11
someone had said to you, "Five years from now, in the space of a
single week, Osama bin Laden will issue a new call for worldwide
jihad, the head of Al Qaeda in Iraq will threaten a brutal, endless
war and there will be two terror attacks in Egypt." Chances are you
would have been quite unnerved.
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