Martin Wickramasinghe Writer for all time

Today (May 29) marks the 120th birth anniversary of Martin Wickramasinghe, Sri Lanka’s greatest writer of contemporary times. He is a self-taught individual whose formal education was cut short by the economic difficulties of his family following the demise of his father.

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The Morning Inspection

When will Royal College open a branch in Thambuttegama?

What do banks, supermarkets and trees have in common? That’s easy: branches. When business is good, the logical thing to do is expand. A business model that is successful can be replicated provided of course that conditions are not too different and that adjustments where necessary will deliver the same kind of profits.

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On My Watch

The term and time for nation building

“We have to build that trust as soon as possible and it’s building up. This is the challenge we are ready to take. So, after 30 years we took the challenge to defeat terrorism; so we took that challenge and won. Now it is the economic development, so we do that. Within one year, we resettle the people. Ninety percent have been resettled. By December, everyone will be resettled in this country.”

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One year after the war.....

Let’s hail DA Rajapaksa’s gift to the nation!

Let us recall the great challenge we faced in uniting this once fragmented nation! The country was engaged in a life and death struggle for three long decades. The current reconstruction and development process of the country would certainly have been a distant dream if the LTTE terrorist conflict persisted. There came a man from the deep South to resolve the crisis and to take his country on the forward march.

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