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Fear And Loathing In Colombo | Dēmokratía
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Fear And Loathing In Colombo. On James Packer’s Casino Colombo. April 25, 2014. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email.
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Meet Subbiah Muthiah – Chronicler Of “Madras” | Dēmokratía
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Meet Subbiah Muthiah – Chronicler Of “Madras”. I met the chronicler, as he calls himself, at a program held on the Anna University premises while accompanying a fellow student. I took his card, he asked me to come visit him if I wanted to know more about what Madras has to offer. Two weeks later I was assigned an interview. I could choose my source. I had only one contact in Madras, so naturally, I went to Muthiah. Breaking free from your cocoon. The Nation, October 07, 2012. Subbiah Muthiah, journalist ...
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How poor is Sri Lanka’s poor? | Dēmokratía
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How poor is Sri Lanka’s poor? How much difference there is in the amount of poverty, how poverty manifests socially and culturally, and whether one socio-economic group is more affected. DCS HIES 2009/2010 an year long national household sample survey conducted once in every 3 years aiming at investigating total living standards of household population. HIES is a major data source in measuring official poverty statistics, and the new indicators follow the HIES cycle. In 2009/2010, 28% went to cereals, 11...
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The Illusion Of Choice, or, Vikram Kapur and his stock character. | Dēmokratía
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The Illusion Of Choice, or, Vikram Kapur and his stock character. 1000 words, or was it 750 words, either way I exceeded the limit. Our class was given three stock characters, three stock settings and three stock conflicts to weave into a story. An old man, a beggar or a young couple: an open field, a restaurant or a deserted street in the pouring rain: being followed, in an argument or running for your life. Do you have fire? Said, Here’s 2 rupees. Go get me a matchbox from the. Somapala thought, decidi...
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On Character & Setting | Dēmokratía
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On Character & Setting. What makes good writing. I chose to model my character around a fellow hostelmate. One who stands out for a very particular reason, though in most classes he is found laughing to himself at whatever the lecturer is babbling on about. He told me the story made him laugh, so I’m happy with it (:. Ties are blind, or, the finger that fumbled. You’re late, she said. Self-service, she said, pointing to an empty bottle of Coca-Cola. Something seemed unusual about her expression; she kept...
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A Letter To The Minister Of Culture And Arts | Dēmokratía
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A Letter To The Minister Of Culture And Arts. I am writing as a Sri Lankan who seeks to know more about his own culture, and one who wishes to engage in the art forms that have emerged from this teardrop in the Indian Ocean. I applaud the ministry for going forward with the Deyata Kirula programme, the intrinsic network of Cultural Centers operating under the ministry, and the devotion of the Central Cultural Fund to the excavation and preservation of cultural artefacts. Civilisation. Their numbers m...
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Shit Copy | Dēmokratía
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It was early evening, 4PM, and I was returning to college from the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board that is in Chintadripet, after being told to come back the next day to interview their hydrologist standard red tape bureaucracy. I stopped at the. Outside CMWSSB and after purchasing two samosas and two Kings Lights asked the woman who runs the stall where she gets the water used for their chai. I stubbed out the cigarette and walked to the Chindratipet train station, just in. Three wo...
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