Destroying the economy twice over
Government is being criticised for playing into foreign hands by undertaking PSU privatisation. The reality, however, is that PSU privatisation is the route to protecting our economic sovereignty.



Relevance of devolution
There are only two solutions to the ethnic problem in Sri Lanka -- partition or devolution. Partition would mean a two-nation theory for the island: that the Sinhalas and the Tamils constitute two separate nations, incompatible, irreconcilable and, therefore, to be separated.



A village of beggars
In a country where 40 per cent of the teeming billion scratch out a hand-to-mouth existence, news that there existed a village of beggars seemed to merit a shot of scepticism.



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