SRI LANKA THIS MONTH

SRI LANKA THIS MONTH with bunpeiris October 2012 by bunpeiris In a bizarre move, Sri Lankan government set the master terrorist, former international wing leader and chief arms procurer of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP, an international gun runner criminal wanted by Interpol and India, free from prosecution and settled him in Kilinocchchi. Ironcially, the West wouldn’t object to the move at all. Should Sri Lanka go by the dictates of human rights procedures prescribed by sick and partisan UN, spurred by the most fearsome human rights violator in the world, the bomber of nuclear bombs, the bomber...

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GOD OF POEMS

THE GOD OF POEMS: RABINDRANATH TAGORE by bunpeiris Rabindranath Tagore http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22217/22217-h/22217-h.htm No single modern literary work has ever revealed to the West the beauty of Indian culture as Gitanjali has done. Gitanjali is a work of literature like none other: it is timeless and priceless. All the poems under the stars are fickle drops of glistening dew on the cusps of petals of flowers in the still wilderness, that would be swept away by the flimsiest of breeze; Gitanjali is the resplendent full moon that would stay still all throughout the loveliest of starry nights. In less than...

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DO YOU HAVE AN ACCENT?

CITY & GUILDS ENGLISH, England ON YOUR ACCENT Which of these opinions about good pronunciation is closest to yours? (a) Good pronunciation must be free of any local or regional accent. (b) A slight regional accent is acceptable but a foreign accent is not. (c) An accent, regional or foreign, doesn’t matter as long as the speaker’s pronunciation is easy to understand. (d) An accent is part of someone’s identity; the stronger it is, the better. Just like Katie Holmes and Sarah Michelle Gellar before her Natalie Portman, is in talks to star as Jackie Kennedy [1] in a new film. Exciting eh? Grazia Daily is, of course, ridiculously excited...

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SELKIRK, CRUSOE N KNOX

MAKE THE MOST OF WHAT YOU HAVE The 50th Law by 50 Cent & Robert Greenenihil timendum est: fear nothing Alexander Selkirk, Juan Fernández Above image is by kind courtesy of  Vicente Coz :panoramio.com/photo/38149331 In 1704, a Scottish sailor named Alexander Selkirk found himself marooned on a deserted island some four hundred miles off the coast of Chile. All he had with him was a rifle, some gunpowder, a knife, some carpenter’s tools and a Bible. In exploring the interior, he see nothing but a bunch of goats, cats, rats and some unfamiliar animals that made strange noises at night. It was a shelter less environment. Selkirk decided...

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DEATH OF A GENTLE GIANT

A gleaning from "Fifty years in Ceylon" by  Major Thomas Skinner: Elephants are strange animals. I have seen many little traits of which I have never read any account in the books of natural history. One thing I noticed, that the larger and more powerful they are when fist captured and brought to the stables, the quieter and more docile they appear. The largest captured elephant I have ever seen was one of in the possession of Mr. Cripps, the Government Agent of the Seven Korales [1]; he was a full-sized animal, and yet he fed from our hands the evening he was brought in. He was very docile in his training until the day he was first put...

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