How Navi Pillay has been gunning for SL

I was pleased to read a vigorous denunciation by our Ambassador in Geneva of the negative comments about Sri Lanka contained in the report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay. I had feared earlier that our Ambassador was far too trusting about Ms Pillay, perhaps having been taken in by her presumed penchant for sari parties, the all-girls-together approach that is no substitute for proper diplomacy.

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A journey on a paper boat to childhood and beyond

Time has a way of whittling away the discomforting slices of the past. It erases completely things that made one sad as well as things one regrets. It offers in sharper focus things that made us smile and these appear as the markers that help memory navigate the years that have rolled by.

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Tourism - major contributor to national economy

Paradise of the East is a terminology used to refer to Sri Lanka by many nations in the past. In conformity to this citation Sri Lanka is a land blessed with beauty and the best of everything. The country’s blend of fauna and flora, birds and beasts, rivers and waterfalls, culture and heritage, beauty and the beaches would enchant any tourist who seeks adventure, pleasure, peace, delicious food and challenge in once destination.

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