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When Worlds Collide #87: Nobel Peace Prize – Saluting peace-makers or stirring political controversy?
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday broadsheet newspaper on 13 October 2013 The Nobel Peace Prize 2013 was awarded on Friday to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) for its extensive efforts to … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Development, Current Affairs, History, Poverty
Tagged Al Gore, Albert Lutuli, Alfred Nobel, Chemical Weapons Convention, Dalai Lama, Denis Mukwege, Desmond Tutu, Dr Geir Lundestad, F W de Klerk, Grameen Bank, IPCC, Lech Walesa, Mahatma Gandhi, Malala Yousafzai, Mikhail Gorbachev, Muhammud Yunus, Nelson Mandela, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Peace Prize 2013, Norwegian Nobel Committee, Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), UN climate panel IPCC, Wangaari Mathaai
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When Worlds Collide #71: Bridging the ‘Other Digital Divide’
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday broadsheet newspaper on 23 June 2013 “We’ll never allow satellite TV into our country! The minds of our youth must be shielded from those decadent western TV shows!” … Continue reading
Posted in Broadcasting, Culture, ICT, Media, Social Media, South Asia, Sri Lanka, Television
Tagged #AskLW, Al Jazeera, BBC, CNN, David Page, Exploit the inevitable!, Facebook, globalisation, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Lalith Weeratunga, Mahatma Gandhi, national security, Other Digital Divide, public morals, Sir Arthur C Clarke, Twitter, UN-ESCAP, William Crawley
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When Worlds Collide #35: Nurturing Innovation in Sri Lanka – Where Have All Our Mavericks Gone?
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday newspaper on 30 September 2012 “Those who are crazy enough to believe they can change the world are the ones that do!” – Steve Jobs (1955-2011) It will … Continue reading
Posted in Business & Commerce, Communicating Development, Culture, Innovation, Public perceptions, Sri Lanka
Tagged Albert Einstein, Amelia Earhart, Anita Roddick, Apple, Buckminster Fuller, Deepal Sooriyaarachchi, Mahatma Gandhi, Malima, Professor Anil K. Gupta, Ray Wijewardene memorial lecture 2011, Richard Branson, Sahasak Nimawum, Samsung, Sri Lanka Inventors’ Commission (SLIC), Steve Jobs, Think Different, Thomas Edison
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When Worlds Collide #7: Sri Lanka – Spice Island or Bland Nation?
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday newspaper on 18 March 2012 I’m neither a historian nor chef, but have a healthy interest in both their subjects. I wish the two come together more often! … Continue reading
Posted in Conspiracy Theories, History, Public perceptions, Sri Lanka
Tagged ‘Trust No One’, Ceylon Today, CIA, Cinnamon, European colonisation, IMF, inclusive Buddhism, Mahatma Gandhi, Maritime Silk route, Martin Luther King Jr., MI5, President John F Kennedy, RAW, Spice Island, veddahs, When Worlds Collide, X Files
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