Should celebrities be role models?

Celebrities as role models has become a very serious topic of discussion in this age, especially with the onset of the television into a majority of households. In the Sri Lankan context, notwithstanding the famous soap advertisements that featured prominent female stars which long preceded it,

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Vignettes

Drink deep in the river of classics

The bespectacled professor looked at them hard and said, “Classics mean the study of ancient Greek and Roman culture, especially their languages and literature.” He reminded them that S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike studied classics at Oxford University.

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Thorns on the Side

A winning attitude

Women's cricket. It used to be that hardly anyone watched women's cricket games. Everyone wanted to catch ‘the boys’ in action whereever they played, be it Colombo or Sydney or anywhere in between.

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