Surviving A Crumbling Economic Order - Colombo Telegraph
Jan 10, 2025 · It was also pessimism over the reckless exploitation of scale economies and blind commitment to technology as panacea for all economic problems that prompted E. F. Schumacher to publish a year later his Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered.And, as if to hasten the realization of MIT’s gloomy prediction the 1978 OPEC oil crisis struck the first blow to the Keynesian ...
A Land For A Colossus - Colombo Telegraph
Jan 11, 2025 · When at a loose end I am in the habit of pulling a book out of my bookshelf to browse through. I do it with both pleasure and profit; passing time gives perspective, offering new insights to books read long ago or casually put aside then. While reading I also tend to look up on the author, the times ...
AKD & ETCA With India: Trap Or Opportunity? - Colombo Telegraph
Dec 30, 2024 · AKD’s criticism of ETCA in 2016. But this is not an easy task for AKD, given that the political force behind him, namely, Janata Vimukthi Peramuna or JVP, had taken an anti-ETCA stand in the past [2].Speaking at an anti-ETCA seminar hosted by JVP in January 2016, AKD, while appreciating the beneficial impact for Sri Lanka from globalised economic relations with other countries, is reported ...
Open Sesame For War Criminals? - Colombo Telegraph
Dec 22, 2024 · By Tisaranee Gunasekara – “Israel today is dynamiting the edifice of the global norms built after 1945.” ~ Pankaj Mishra (The Shoah after Gaza – London Review of Books – 21.3.2014) In the second decade of the 21 st Century, genocide is being televised.. 72 Virgins – Uncensored was a Telegraph channel run by the Israeli Defence Forces’ Influencing Department (Orwellian by name and ...
Cost Of Living Pandemic & Food Security - Colombo Telegraph
Dec 23, 2024 · Cost of living crisis is an economic pandemic spreading to almost every country whether developed or developing. Therefore, the constant barrage of attack on NPP government over the last few weeks about rising price of coconuts, shortage of rice and salt in the market is not unique to Sri Lanka even though there are certain specific factors such as oligopolistic control and hoarding which make ...
Reflecting On The Change We Had To Have - Colombo Telegraph
Dec 28, 2024 · All in all, from the JVP perspective it took about 60 years to realise its dream for changing the system. Throughout this period, it stuck to its principles and practices irrespective of ups and downs in its struggle for justice and efforts to …
Education Reforms Should Reckon Matters If Connected To …
Dec 16, 2024 · But what is of importance is to make education relevant by inculcating creativity in citizens. This helps Sri Lanka to develop creative capital, and that creative capital will generate inventions, and those inventions are used in practice for producing commercially viable goods and services by entrepreneurs through a process called ‘innovations’[4].
Dawn Of A New Chapter In Sri Lankan Politics; Drawing Apt Lessons!
Nov 19, 2024 · The indomitable spirit shown by JVP as the main constituent in the NPP, even after the total eclipse of its initial political leadership, was remarkable. Unlike many of the leftist political parties that swayed and assimilated into the mainstream spectrum of party politics in Sri Lanka, JVP survived and flourished, after relating well to the aspirations of the people at the grassroot levels.
System Change – Do We Dare? - Colombo Telegraph
Jan 5, 2025 · If the “ Aragalaya ” had any lesson to offer, it was the dominant demand for a “System change.” The Presidential and Parliamentary elections showed emphatic support. Although the “Throw out all 225” did not (thankfully) materialize, the never in a life-time experience, saw large numbers resigning/retiring.
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