Sri Lanka’s poorest of the poor, their lives devastated by economic collapse, may face a killer blow soon: a crippling of the public health system
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Dreams of being in school also came via several postcards from children in Afghanistan. Since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, new rules are banning girls from education and denying women their human rights
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By Tisaranee Gunasekara  “Our challenge is to devise some arrangement which enables us to coexist if not in amity then at least in forbearance.” Jawaharlal Nehru (quoted in Andre Malraux’s Anti-Memoir). During Black July, marauding…
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Our blasphemy laws were bequeathed to us by the British. Britain abolished its own blasphemy laws in 2008. We still cling to ours and resort to them more than ever before
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Sister André, a French nun and the world’s oldest known person, who lived through two world wars, the 1918 influenza pandemic and survived COVID-19, died Tuesday (17) in France. She was 118
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How a domestic worker and grandmother taking care of two children manages her monthly budget in Sri Lanka
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The prospect of extended daily blackouts looms again. Food staples, transport fees and children's school supplies are increasingly unaffordable. And the new year brings with it steep tax hikes that will only compound the misery
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Sri Lanka limped into December with its economic sovereignty in shreds. The media headlines in the South Asian nation echoed the obvious — that the financial destiny of the country was firmly in the hands of foreigners
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When I look back at 2022, what strikes me more than anything else is how agonizingly slowly it passed. The early days of COVID-19 had been slow enough. But 2022 broke that record
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Before Gotabaya Rajapaksa, there was S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike. Before organic only, there was Sinhala only. And the related transformation of Vidyodaya and Vidyalankara from monastic colleges to secular universities. Like Sinhala only, this…
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