Wet Zone rice culture - Never too late
The major reason for abandoning Wet Zone rice
lands was quoted as the high literacy rate. The new generation may
not want to be farmers even if they belong to the rural farming
community. Once an Indian expert inquired about the literacy rate of
Sri Lanka to advise on sugar cane cultivation in Inginimitiya
project.
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Mind your language
Sometimes the task of national unification takes
a particularly enlightened multilingual, multi-religious character,
but in many, even most cases, the struggle requires the mobilization
of the peasantry and the nationalist intelligentsia and therefore
takes a majoritarian nationalist, even religio-nationalist,
character. The Year 1848 which witnessed radical democratic
revolutions throughout Europe was called the Springtime of Nations
and that season spilled over into a conflict of nationalisms.
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Public vigilance vital to defeat Tigers
The second day of February started as usual. It was one of those
slow and relaxed Saturdays. Yet to some hundred odd people
travelling in a bus in the North Central Province it was a fateful
day. The bus was plying from Kandy to Anuradhapura as usual.
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