Thursday, January 21, 2021
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Let Ayurveda do what real Ayurveda does

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With the supposed Ayurveda cure for Covid-19, The Island has been inundated with articles extolling the safety procedures surrounding western medicines, while cautioning, if...
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Creature disowning creator

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TNA Leader R. Sampanthan is reported to have lashed out at his critics, saying that nobody could intimidate or ban his party,...
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Has COPE forgotten its own report?

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Former yahapalana high-ups currently in the SJB, which is only old UNP wine in a new bottle, keep daring the incumbent SLPP government to...
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A disease, a vaccine, a ‘cure’ and the resurrection of burials

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THE WEEK THAT WAS  The third reading of the Budget 2021 was passed in parliament with amendments on Thursday...
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Tamil heroes hid behind baby brigades

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The post-independent era was convulsed by two violent mass movements : 1. communism in the South and 2. communalism in the North....
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Turning the page on the culture of confrontation

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The new indigenous medical cure that an Ayurvedic physician is credited with, has created a certain low-level simmering confrontation between doctors and...
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Have less sympathy for symbols

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Too many symbols that make up society makes everything rather uncomfortable for everybody, said Jiddu Krishnamurthy, the philosopher. Cardinal...
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Time to explore a new economic structure

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The title of the book by Dr. Robert Schuller, ‘Tough times never last, but tough people do’ is an ideal quote to...
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Mahinda Rajapaksa’s appropriate counter to Modi’s Thirteenth Amendment

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Managing Indo-Sri Lanka relations is prioritised as the most important item in the agenda of the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry. In fact,...
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Ranil influenced the judiciary – Arundika Fernando

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Minister of Industries Wimal Weerawansa condemned the Opposition’s attempt to draw parallels between the Mahara prison riot...
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China has overtaken the US – says IMF

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It was expected but not so swiftly, possibly the Covid-19 has expedited what was inevitable. A report published in “The Our Asian...
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They say the sky is falling again

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Local Cassandras and Fitch Rating Cassandras may be two sides of the same coin but they seem to be also on the...
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How & Who are bringing illegal drugs/narcotics to Sri Lanka?

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Millions the world over are addicted to drugs. Their whole lives are ruined. Their families are in disarray. All this suffering is...
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Fires of communalism were fanned by anti-Sinhala-Buddhist ideologues

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The abuse of history has been one of the major contributory factors that led to the exacerbation of the North-South relations. If...
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Between Mahara and Buravi, amid anxiety and relief

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Fire and brimstone. That’s one way of talking about the week that has passed. Fire, on account of the tragedy that unfolded...
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Public health paradoxes

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In the early days of HIV infection, a well-meaning initiative was conducted in one of the southern states of India, to reduce...
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India tells Sri Lanka and Maldives size doesn’t matter. For how long?

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India’s on-when-it wants and off-when it doesn’t security pacts with smaller neighbours is more destabilizing than the supposed risk from powers it wants countered.
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The rise of the Bonapartists: A political history of post-1977 Sri Lanka (Part I)

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Viewed in retrospect, the yahapalanaya regime seems almost a bad memory now, best forgotten. This is not to underrate its achievements, for...
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Politics as usual no remedy for Islamic extremism

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A heated exchange took place in Parliament a couple of days ago (November 26 or 27) about the so-called Batticaloa Sharia University,...
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Future cannot be built on the failed past of minorities

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Managing a democracy in normal times is bad enough. Managing it in times of crises can be a horripilating nightmare. Choices have...
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Mahara prison riot: How pills meant for mental patients triggered violence

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* Over 2,400 inmates on their own within complex * Death toll reachers 11, could rise further
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UNHRC Resolution 40/1 and International Law

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During the recent committee state debates in Parliament on the financial vote of the Ministry of Foreign Relations, exception was taken by...
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Easter Sunday carnage: How P CoI boomeranged on former Prez Sirisena

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Many an eyebrow was raised when Archbishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, intervened in the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (P CoI), tasked...
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36 years gone, but, dark memories remain

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The Kent and Dollar Farm massacres were one of the earliest massacres carried out by the LTTE during Sri Lanka’s darkest era....
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DISGRACEFUL – UK commemorates dead LTTE terrorists by lighting UK Parliament

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LTTE was banned by UK in 2001 though UK was LTTE’s international headquarters from 1980s. While Lord Naseby remains...
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Let’s go for 13 Plus v

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By Malinda Seneviratne India wants the 13th. Fine. If it is believed that repealing the 13th is out of...
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Post-conflict Sri Lanka: Blessed are the children, for they will not be snatched

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By Malinda Seneviratne These are days of self-righteous chest-beating and bleeding-heart humanitarianism about the plight of Tamils in Sri...
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The difference between ‘slash and burn’ and scorched earth politics

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The real environmental conundrum in this country seems to be that nobody knows where slash and burn cultivation left off, and slash...
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Lessons Learnt from Lies of Trump

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After giving leadership to his futile and disastrous insurrection to remain in the White House Donald Trump, the lame duck President of...
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