සංවර්ධනය හා ජනමාධ්යවේදීන්ගේ සමාජ වගකීම
By development Ivan means progress in any field — a country’s as a whole, or the economy, politics, health, transport, education, science, the environment, the spiritual — and what he wants to talk about is what a journalist’s part in that process should be. Seven sections follow, from Warren Buffett to the development of Colombo.
මහජන සෞඛ්ය සේවා-ශක්තිය හා සීමාසහිතකම්
Public health has always interested Ivan, and what made him write this was not that interest but a personal reason: a blood test done for an illness of his wife’s, an ESR eight times the normal level, and the run of investigations the doctors had to send her through to find out why. The article is what he saw of the service from the inside, set out in four parts.
සීසර්ගේ දේ සීසර්ටම දිය යුතුය
A member of the Tamil alliance charged in parliament that 200 of the 500 tractors India gave to farmers in the north had been handed to two state institutions. If that is true it is a wrong, and putting it right is the government’s responsibility. Resettlement and the projects planned for that region must be carried forward without a break, and life there brought back to normal quickly.
ආහාර අර්බුදයට මුහුණදීම
The heavy rain and the flooding it keeps producing have been destructive to the country’s food crops, and this is not a condition peculiar to Sri Lanka. 2011 has already been named a La Niña year, one in which heavy rainfall may do the world great damage, and China — the country with the world’s largest population — has been identified as facing a great drought.
ස්වභාවික ව්යසන යන්ගෙන් වන හානිය උග්ර කරන දේශපාලන සාධක
The damage done to the Northern, Eastern and North Central provinces by the flooding is enormous. Measured against the tsunami the loss of life is far smaller and the loss of property is larger: tanks destroyed wholly or in part, newly built and newly repaired highways damaged, and heavy losses to paddy and vegetable crops.
දේශපාලනය හා ස්වාභාවික විපත්
The local government election has sharpened the contest between the government and the opposition, and the effect has been to limit the political attention reaching the people hurt by the floods. That cannot be called a good state of affairs: the property damage in the three provinces is larger than the tsunami’s, and the landslides in the central hills need serious attention too.
විදේශ රැකියා හා මැලේසියාව
Foreign employment is one of the country’s main sources of income: it is the chief earner of foreign exchange, it lightens the weight of unemployment, and it is one of the main things easing rural poverty. Ivan asks for a policy that treats the recruitment agents as people who do the economy real service, and for a shift from sending housemaids to sending trained workers.
වෙනස් වෙමින් තිබෙන අධ්යාපනය
Amid heated argument the shape of education is changing and being changed. Serious changes are visible in higher and vocational education; at school level Ivan can see no such change yet, and the national education commission’s proposals for what school education needs are still proposals.
ගංවතුර, නායයෑම් හා ප්රාදේශීය පාලනය
The damage done by the heavy rain and the floods is enormous, worst in the North Central, Eastern, Northern and Central provinces. Close to nine hundred thousand people are affected and more than two hundred thousand are in camps; across five districts 116 tanks are wholly damaged and another 238 partly.
පොල්, කුකුළු මස් හා බිත්තර ආනයනය
Importing coconuts as a remedy for the shortage can be called a good and useful act; importing chicken and eggs to control their price cannot. From there the article turns to the spread of monkeys and wild boar, to animal husbandry and religious belief, and to a decision Ivan calls genuinely revolutionary — making vocational education compulsory for those who fail their O levels.