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Coal power prices and pollution
Attempts to stop Norochcholai misguided
As Mr. Carlo Fernando has been insisting for
decades we need coal power for the next quarter century; thereafter,
small conventional nuclear, nuclear fusion or clean coal technology
may become available in sizes that the local system can absorb - but
that's crystal ball gazing.
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Sarath: The unfinished struggle
Sunday Essay by Ajith Samaranayake
Only last Thursday, a young attorney-at-law was
speculating on how Sarath Muttetuwegama, if he had been still alive,
would have adjusted himself to the violence-ridden politics of our
time. Several of his companions expressed the view that he would
have been intensely unhappy at the need to travel with body guards
and the consequent crippling of his movements when the young lawyer
said, 'Perhaps he would have hooked by night. He was a great one to
do that.'
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Thou shall not ignore the Americans anymore
The Rajpal Abeynayake Column
The Americans pushed the Europeans again. Since
they pushed the British Navy - bloodied their noses and all - at the
Boston Tea Party, this is the most invigorating thing that the
Americans have done for themselves to regain their civilisational
instincts from the Europeans. Europe had art, culture and
Shakespeare, and the Americans had instant coffee. The dice was
heavily loaded against them.
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