Globalisation: Is the world really flat?
If the world were really flat there would be no
poverty in one region of the world while there is prosperity in
another. There would not be war in one part of the world and peace
in another. People would not commit genocide in one corner of the
globe and preserve dignity of human life in another.
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Robert Knox, then and now
We are indebted to Robert Knox for recording his
observations of 17 Century Sri Lanka, the land in which he spent
nearly 20 years as a prisoner of the Kandyan King. The first
European to have recorded details of the prevailing social life from
firsthand experience of the beleaguered kingdom, his “An Historical
Relation of Ceylon” is essential reading for a student of our
pre-colonial society.
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Electricity must be affordable to all
The speech by Power and Energy Minister W.D.J.
Seneviratne at the 12th Annual General Meeting of the Electrical
Engineering Society of the University of Moratuwa, held at HNB Tower
auditorium recently.
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