Visas, Immigration and Humiliations
For decades now, Developed Countries have been
the Promised Land for seemingly endless streams immigrants from
Under-Developed Countries, the majority of them running away from
the clutches of poverty, or situations of hopelessness that exist in
their lands of birth. If they had not grasped the wretchedness of
their lives prior, mass media has made them conversant now of the
potential of the human existence.
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Discovering Ceylon with Theodolite
On reading R.L. Brohier's Discovering Ceylon I
discovered not only Ceylon but also Brohier. What a remarkable man!
A surveyor by profession, an ethnologist by instinct, historian,
sociologist, antiquarian and above all he was a humanitarian as well
as a great lover of Ceylon.
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Of petroleum exploration and multinational scandals
The global oil prices have now hit an all time
high of US$ 107.90. It is also unknown whether it will still
increase from there or whether it will stabilise or reduce. Either
way, Sri Lanka cannot afford that as a bulk of our power generation
is based on the fuel prices. This is bound to have a cascading
effect on the electricity prices.
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