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Archive of entries posted on 17th August 2012

Lakshman Kadirgamar: Larger than Life Personality

by D.B.S. Jeyaraj August 12th 2005 was the day on which Lakshman Kadirgamar was killed by a sniper of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) concealed in the house of an unsuspecting neighbor. Sri Lanka’s foreign minister par excellence had just completed his customary 1000 metre swim at the pool in his residence, when the [...]

TRACKS: Basic Principles of Governance are Transparency, Responsibility, Accountability,Coherence,Knowledge and Skills

by Prof.Rajiva Wijesinha M.P. (Full Text of a presentation at the Seminar on Changing Social Dynamics in South Asia: Prospects and Challenges for India and Sri Lanka conducted by the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies and the observatory research Foundation on August 17th 2012) I am grateful to the Bandaranaike Centre and the Observatory Foundation [...]