Ninety two, and fearless
The South African legend Nelson Mandela
celebrated his 92nd birthday on July 18, 2010 at his country home in
Johannesburg. Mandela was the pioneer freedom fighter in the
Anti-Apartheid Movement, protecting curtailed rights of the majority
black population in South Africa.
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On the solidarities of the solitary
We are so lonely that we spend lifetimes
looking for a friend, a twin, a someone who we can really relate to,
and sometimes in desperation we seek relief in the clone-option,
having children. It never works. We can’t clone ourselves. We don’t
have twins. We can experience ‘twinning’ but only momentarily and
only insofar as we exclude all differences. When we do ‘twin’ then
we become a sanitized ‘us’, indulge in a patently unsustainable
charade and sooner or later are forced to acknowledge that we are
more than who we make ourselves out to be.
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Speaking English Our Way:
Evolving a homegrown model
The initiative to draw a national road map to
popularize English throughout the country reached its Second Phase
yesterday at Temple Trees under President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s
patronage. Presidential Task Force on English and IT Coordinator
Sunimal Fernando says the phase two targets a wider category. Here
are the excerpts of the interview. Part I was published yesterday.
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