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While it is undeniable that there was no choice and free will involved in enslavement, ignoring its legacy and implications is certainly a choice. If we continue to overlook the uncomfortable truth while rooting for reconciliation, passions will long remain ablaze. Take a seat Governor Ron DeSantis until you find a way to use your Harvard and Yale backgrounds for good and not as an ungodly distortion of truth with a view to Black History and slavery.

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Here’s what readers are saying in Wednesday’s letters to the editor.

As the next steps in finding solutions to the ethnic issues in the island, Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe has called for an All Party Conference at the President’s Office on 26 July 2023.

American civil rights movement, mass protest against racial segregation and discrimination in the southern U.S. that came to national prominence during the mid-1950s. Its roots were in the centuries-long efforts of enslaved Africans and their descendants to abolish slavery and resist racial oppression.

By N Sathiya Moorthy   Not many seemed to have noticed that the day President Ranil Wickremesinghe met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on 21 July exactly a full year had elapsed since his taking over formal charge after being confirmed by Parliament.  But no one, at least in the

 

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), Ministry of Finance, has issued Notification No. 51/2023-Income Tax on July 18, 2023, amending Rule 11UAC of the Income-tax Rules, 1962. This new amendment...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today urged President Ranil Wickremesighe to fulfill the aspirations of the Tamils and also implement the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. He said he hopes the Sri Lankan Government will ensure a life of respect and dignity for the Tamil community of Sri Lan

New Delhi and Colombo also unveiled plans to establish power grid connectivity, possibly boosting electricity trade in the neighbourhood.