A more dynamic liquor policy, an urgent need

Delivering a lecture on ‘Alcohol Consumption and Consequences in Sri Lanka’ a few months ago, Consultant Physician, Sri Jayawardanapura General Hospital, Dr. Anula Wijesundere touched on the history of alcohol consumption in Sri Lanka.

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Vignettes

Heavy price for industrialisation

Anthropologists say man first appeared on the earth almost 2,000,000 years ago. At that time he would have looked like his primate ancestors than the present day man you meet on the street. Soon he became a part of a long evolutionary process that lasted many millennia.

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Buildings speak of torture and mysteries

Still an atmosphere of horror hovers over those mysterious mansions – more commonly sepulchral buildings redolent of a grandeur that once dominated them. Yet these buildings often reek of a horrible crime and torture presumed to have occurred prior to their gradual ruination.

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