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The CEB Chairman’s claim that Sri Lanka would have been facing daily power cuts if not for Mahinda Rajapaksa’s initiative to build the Norochcholai coal-fired power plant prompted this comment. Credit should be given to those who deserve. Let’s see how the Norochcholai project came into being. According to the Long Term Least Cost Generation Plan of the CEB, a coal plant was to be commissioned in the year 2000. However, all governments refused to grant approval due to an objection by the ...

That exhortation from playwright Arthur Miller’s masterwork, Death of a Salesman, is one of the most famous lines in the American theater, and it immediately came to mind when I learned that a naval officer of singular distinction, Commander William F. Bundy, USN (Ret.), a member of “The Centennial Seven,” had suddenly passed away on 15 December 2019. In that spirit, I headed north on a sunny December day a little over a year ago to attend a funeral with full military honors. Driving fro...

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