Making Lanka wonder of Asia

In line with Mahinda Chintana Power and Energy Policy :

The Upper Kotmale Hydro Power Project has invigorated the life standards of the people in the Talawakelle and surrounding areas. This project which was to be launched in the 1980s, never saw the day of light due to political expediency and various other reasons and intimidation, until President Mahinda Rajapaksa came to power in 2005 and took the bold decision to proceed with the construction of this project, regardless of political pressure or otherwise and in line with the pledge given under the Power and Energy Policy in the Mahinda Chintana ‘to build coal and hydro-power projects expeditiously’

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Facebook users click to connect cheerfully

PARALLEL Perspective - Philip Fernando

Facebook posted more than 30 billion photographs, links to Web sites and news articles to be shared through the site. Every month its members spent roughly 700 billion minutes there, a favourite ‘place’ to hangout for those wearing their interests on their sleeves. No whispered scenarios here-everything is in the open.

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Meditation on virtues of dumbness

The Morning Inspection - Malinda

The film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is set in a mental hospital where the energetic, flamboyant, wise-guy anti-hero Randle Patrick McMurphy (played by Jack Nicholson) stuck in the facility for an evaluation while serving a short prison sentence for statutory rape rebels against the ‘Establishment’, i.e. the institutional authority and rigid attitudes personified by the supervisory nurse, Mildred Ratched (played by Louise Fletcher).

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