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By Goolbai Gunesekere Sri Lankans are not known to be a cruel race, yet instances of outright wickedness are now rearing their ugly heads. We used to be shocked by the stories of little servant girls being abused by Sri Lankan housewives and viciously punished for minor infractions. I remember one case of a little […]
By Goolbai Gunasekara Principals in the early years of the 20th century commanded a kind of respect that was almost adulatory. And why did they do so? For one thing the well-known private schools both in Colombo and the outstations ran their schools themselves Each school was an entity with a Board of Management and […]
By Goolbai Gunasekara For the last five decades, the Daily Press has been highlighting the requests, then complaints, finally outright DEMANDS of our totally unworthy university students. I will correct that. A small percentage of them ARE worth what our government is spending on them, but that number is negligible enough to make the money […]
By Goolbai Gunasekara Several schools have been negatively highlighted of late thanks to the reprehensible goings on of certain groups of Prefects. I must really wonder if this system, inherited from the British, has run its course and is no longer relevant as far as school organizations in Sri Lanka are concerned. I remember, many […]