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by President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga

(Text of speech delivered at the Leadership Initiative organised by Hindustan Times Group in New Delhi, India on November 5, 2004.)

South Asia, or what is known as South Asia today, consisted of closely inter-related kingdoms with a civilization dating back to well over four millennia. The epic-center of South Asian civilization, in ancient times, were the great Mohan Jo Daro and Harappa civilizations of the Indus Valley: Our ancestors living in these periods invented burnt brick, as well as sophisticated irrigation and flood control systems which demonstrate a high level of technological development.
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