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When Worlds Collide #75: Watching Sri Lanka’s Children of ‘77
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday broadsheet newspaper on 21 July 2013 When launching the column 18 months ago, I chose this theme because I am fascinated by worlds colliding all around us, all … Continue reading
Posted in Ceylon, Communicating Development, Culture, Education, Employment, Generations, History, ICT, Innovation, Sri Lanka, Television
Tagged Ajith Samaranayake, Bathiya & Santhush, Black July riots of 1983, bread queues, Broadcast television, child of 1956, Children of ’56, Children of ’77, cricket, demographic insights, Digital Natives, Inter-generational tensions, Internet, J R Jayewardene, language policy, Mahaweli River programme, mobile phones, post-1956 generation, S W R D Bandaranaike, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka 40 under 40 list, Sri Lanka census 2012, Sri Lanka Cricket., Sri Lanka Freedom Party, Swabhasha education, United National Party, worlds colliding
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When Worlds Collide #46: In Search of Arthur Clarkeisms…
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday newspaper on 16 December 2012 “Did you hear about the man who lit a cigarette from a nuclear explosion?” Sir Arthur C Clarke was fond of asking his … Continue reading
Posted in Ceylon, Religion, Sri Lanka
Tagged Catholic Church, Ceylon Tea, Clarke's 64th Law, Clarke’s Three Laws, cricket, Giordarno Bruno, humour, jokes, nuclear weapons, Pope John Paul II, quotes, Reuters, Sir Arthur C Clarke, slogans, The Dalai Lama, The Hammer of God, The Nine Billion Names of God, Theodore (Ted) Taylor, Vatican
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When Worlds Collide #57: Cricket on Air – Origins of a cultural revolution
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday newspaper on 10 March 2013 The prevailing big match fervour raises the question: why is the quintessentially English game of cricket our de facto national sport? How did … Continue reading →