Sri Lanka: State of the Nation and relations with India

Influences from Southern India have been of fundamental importance from prehistoric times. For a thousand years before the arrival of the Portuguese, successive waves of Hindu conquerors from South India invaded parts of Sri Lanka and established dependencies.

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The game of politics, UNP style

It was President Joachim Chissano of Mozambique who won the prestigious ‘Mo Ibrahim’ award in 2007. It was Joachim Chissano who entered into a peace treaty with the tribal leaders and unified the segregated nation of Mozambique. He was the person who unified Mozambique. In addition to this he introduced good governance and democracy to Mozambique and was elected as the President of Mozambique twice by people’s mandate.

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Gender blender manoeuvres

Gender blender manoeuvre is a sex change operation to turn a man into a woman and vice versa. In the modern world, one’s destiny can change for those who opt to become gender-blender volunteers where clinical technicians transform into ‘mini gods’ on earth. The process is ‘part of the estrangement people feel from own bodies and their desire to resemble the opposite sex’.

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