Mervin Silva and election 2010 - The time for people to voice

28 Feb 2010

Mervin Silva became the last in the list contesting for Colombo District in 2004 General Elction. Still he managed to become a very powerful political character against the will of the people. Now he comes after the people again requesting to vote for him.

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Sarath Fonseka – On his march to the failed politico-militery coup

26 Feb 2010

The failed politico-militery coup attempt of 2010 has left plenty of points for us to think  ranging from importance of identifying possible culprits early to close motoring and controlling of vicious foreign activities in meddling Sri Lankan politics. The more you analyse the history of character of Sarth Fonseka, clearer the true picture of failed coup.

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The top patriots for 2010 – Lanka Rising’s choices

25 Feb 2010

Each one of us admires people and things. The choices mainly depends on own culture, personality and views. Following is the Lanka Rising’s choice of top patriotic personalities and impersonal/collective entities of the year.

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Mind your (own) accent - from cricket to English - Part 2

23 Feb 2010

(Mind your (own) English accent - The facts and myths - Part 1)
The language learning pattern first require mastered to become competent in the mother tongue then affects how and individual would learn and master the speech requirements of a foreign language.  Thus we bring an "accent" from our patterns of our first language into the next language we learn.

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Mind your (own) English accent - The facts and myths - Part 1

22 Feb 2010

Accent is a way of pronouncing a language. We can control the way we speak, and do, BOTH consciously and unconsciously. Accents are influenced by geographic separation, cultural influence, and other languages from closest geographic regions. All languages are spoken with several different accents. There is nothing unusual about English. And not everyone who comes from the same place speaks the same: in any place there is a variety of accents.

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Speak English our way – A leap forward in progressive direction – Part 2

19 Feb 2010

(Read Part 1of the post...)

You must have already seen the advertisements on TV, featuring several well-known Sri Lankan personalities talking about speaking English our way. They said that they didn’t know much English at the beginning of their respective carriers, but the circumstances led them to use the little English they knew and they were not embarrassed about using it their way.

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Sri Lankan Airlines - We are changing the way we fly

17 Feb 2010

SriLankan Airlines has embarked on an exciting new journey that would give their passengers a richer Taste of the Paradise, they already know and love.The Airline is introducing a whole new experience on ground and in the air, that promises its passengers a total “Change in the way You fly !”

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Speak English our way – A leap forward in progressive direction – Part 1

16 Feb 2010

The old, conservative, outdated, elitist Sri Lankan ideology of English that still enjoys an unwarranted amount of social legitimacy and power sees 'English as a language', an instrument of social oppression, the prized possession of a privileged class and an exclusive emblem of upper class status to be therefore spoken as an English person would speak - with unblemished diction, perfect grammar and technically perfect pronunciation.

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Facts about: Hitler's (so-called) Vegetarianism

14 Feb 2010

The continual allegation that Hitler was a vegetarian is usually motivated by a wish to discredit vegetarianism by those who oppose it. Good morality or good health policy should neither be motivated nor discredited by whether evil people embrace a certain principle.

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World Famous Vegetarians

A vegetarian is someone who does not eat any meat, poultry, game, fish, shellfish, crustacea, or slaughter house by-products (such as gelatine or rennet).  Just under one-quarter of the world’s population has a predominantly vegetarian diet.

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Development and economy – From myth into reality

10 Feb 2010

Most people use two words, development and growth of the economy, synonymously. Others give a wider definition for development, incorporating it with social values, social status (health, education, technology and literature etc.) and political structure. So under normal circumstances development means growth in any aspect of the economic or social spheres.

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General Sarath Fonseka arrested by Military police

8 Feb 2010

Rtd. General Sarath Fonseka has been arrested and court martialed by the Sri Lanka Army for committing military offences, Military Spokesman told. His media secretary Senaka de Silva was also arrested.

The arrest was confirmed by the Military spokesperson Maj: Gen: Prasad Samarasinghe.

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Vote intelligently, the key to success of the nation

Politics is the art or science of government or governing, especially the governing of a political entity, such as a nation, and the administration and control of its internal and external affairs. In other words Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions.

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Mahinda and Worker’s charter – A dream not into reality?

7 Feb 2010

The Worker’s charter and Mahinda Rajapaksa have been two words going hand in hand since 1994. Mahinda Rajapaksa had long popularity among the private sector employees of being a radical trade union leader. In 1994 he was appointed labour minister under CBK government. One of the key tasks of Mahinda Rajapaksa was presenting the Worker’s Charter.

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Coups - The insight story

6 Feb 2010

When a country is politically unstable and dictatorship is established, the capitalist mechanism can be efficiently imposed to exploit the common people. Coups do not always come about in isolation due to petty personal goals.

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Global recession - Blessing in disguise? - Part 2

4 Feb 2010

(Part 2 of Excerpt from the book "Towards a green era" by Patali Champika Ranawaka)
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If we go back to the fundamentals we could visualize three concentric spheres as far as the economy is concerned. Money is the outer most sphere, representing the value of goods and services which are being exchanged.

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Global recession - Blessing in disguise? - Part 1

(An excerpt from the book "Towards a green era" by Patali Champika Ranawaka)
Everyone now agrees that the present global economic crisis is much deeper than the crisis the world had experienced 80 years ago, before the Second World War.

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The Independence day

On 4th February 2008, at a dawn of another so called independence day Lanka Rising Published a post titled “Challenges after sixty years of independence”. It discussed the tragedy of the nation after prolonged colonial rule and the reality of ‘Independence’ that we were granted on 4 th February 1948.

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Victory for the Tiger-slayer

2 Feb 2010

(Victory for the Tigerslayer - The Economist,  Jan 28th 2010)
Had Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka’s war-winning leader, lost his island-state’s presidential election on January 26th, it would have been described as a Churchillian defeat.

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