Access to Uthuru Vasanthaya via Negenahira Navodaya

President Mahinda Rajapaksa who heralded a new era in the East is in the midst of opening new vistas to the North as well for its future prosperity through his brainchild, Uthuru Vasanthaya. Infrastructure facilities are being provided to the people in the North and East whose lives were wrecked by the LTTE during the past three decades.

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Of media and false reporting

British Foreign Office feeds Times false figures in campaign to recover from defeat inflicted at Human Rights Council in Geneva.

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Complications in battling dengue

“Dengue fever (and even chikungunya) is a disease which can be easily prevented to a great extent by homoeopathic prophylactic (preventive) treatment. Empiric treatment has proved the efficacy of homoeopathic prophylaxis. So, what is the Ministry of Indigenous Medicine and the Homeopathic Medial Council operating under this Ministry doing when they have the resources and the drugs to embark upon a prevention program and even to successfully treat affected patients so that mortality rates would drop down dramatically in tandem with nil or with short hospital admissions”. - Dr Mass R. Usuf

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Ananda College years

Memoirs - I:

Derisively because it was somewhat an upstart in the elegant and anglicised school fraternity of big city Colombo, Ananda College was called the Mariakade Iskolaya. Geographically Ananda was right in the heart of notorious Mariakade, notorious then for crime, bootlegging and prostitution but the ungallant epithet was vulgarly out of place in scholastic terms. As far as I could remember Anandians were not overtly piqued by the derogatory reference and seemed to take it as a matter of course. After all, most students came from Second Division Maradana or Paranawadiya.

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