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(Excerpted from the memoirs of Senior DIG (Retd.) Edward Gunawardena) A few months after the SLFP-led United Front Alliance headed by Mrs. Sirima Bandaranaike was elected in 1970, information started trickling in that the JVP was planning an uprising against the government. Cells were formed island-wide and clandestine indoctrination classes conducted by trained cadres. Simultaneously there was a spate of bank robberies and thefts of guns from households were reported to the police from all parts of the island. Unidentified youths were collecting empty cigarette and condensed milk tins, bottles, spent bulbs and cutting pieces of barbed wire from fences to make hand bombs and Molotov cocktails. Instances of bombs being tested even in the Peradeniya campus came to light. ....
by Dulara Vithana, Bhanushi Perera and Kaushalya Kariyawasam The term, ‘online’, pertains to the Internet. The ‘consumer’ is a person who buys things or enlists services. Therefore, the ‘online consumer’ can be defined as a person who engages in activities and achieves his goals through the use of internet and social media networks. With increasing globalization, humans are becoming busier and more dependent on the Internet. As a result, the number of people who used computers and the internet has increased exponentially, especially after the outbreak of COVID-19, which upended the world and caused almost all countries to be locked down partially or completely. Educational activities from primary to university students, various work-related day-to-day activities, bank transactions, etc., have come to be conducted online, causing an unprecedented increase in the number of online consumers. ....
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Perils of a Profession. By Merril Gunaratne. Published January 2021. 136 pages. Price Rs. 300/-. Available at Vijitha Yapa and Sarasavi Bookshops. Reviewed by Leelananda De Silva. There is great concern in the country regarding the ever changing nature of our constitution and the implications for all of us. As important as the constitution, are the public institutions that have a great bearing on the day to day life of the country and its people. Appropriate and efficient institutions – the Sri Lanka Administrative Service, the health service, engineering services, local government mechanisms, the Police – are vital to the efficient conduct of public life. It is a matter for great regret that we have neglected these institutions and diminished their authority and the autonomous spaces they had, for the sake of greater political and party control. The politicization of the Police is no exception. The volume under review is a fine illustration of the story decline of one the ....