Sri Lanka should become a model by itself - President

I always say Sri Lanka is for Sri Lankans. It is not a Singapore model, although I am impressed by its growth. Some people want to make this into a Singapore or New York or Dubai but I always said Sri Lanka should become a model by itself, stated President Mahinda Rajapaksa in an interview with the Strait Times

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Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka:

A half century in politics

My mind goes back to September 1956 when I first met Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka at the Ceylon Students’ Centre in London, when I went there to attend a meeting of the Ceylon Students’ Association. I was at the time a member of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party Group in London.

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The naming game of racism: Farveez, Jehan and Izeth

So what’s his point? Racism or favouritism or both? After painstakingly arguing that there is some kind of systemic racism happening, the man says ‘perhaps not’.

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