September is the Literacy Month:
Reversing the declining reading habit
During the past five decades, various campaigns
were launched to improve the situation, but there is still a need
for a more perceptive understanding of the reasons for the lack of
the reading habit in Sri Lanka.
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Vignettes
The challenge of moving images
Moving pictures on the big and small screens
have probably weaned most of us from appreciating paintings,
cartoons and drawings. The art of moving images has caught up with
the Digital Age in such a way that we think that all the other arts
are subordinate to it.
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Neil Armstrong:
An adventurer's heroic exit from earth
This month marks the first death anniversary of
Neil Armstrong who merited the credit of being the first man to set
foot on a planet other than the earth. NASA claims that he made a
dignified and heroic exit from this world and that he meant the
total success of the space projects.
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