Maumoon Abdul Gayoom rules his atoll nation with a firm hand, but has been credited with bringing unprecedented prosperity to his 250,000 subjects. Today, the Maldives has the best
With improved bilateral relations and some positive trends in commerce between the two countries, Sri Lanka and India together might just show the way to the brave new world of
Colombo has been a traditional friend and New Delhi a friend in need of this strategic yet vulnerable republic, the smallest member of SAARC.
There is no record of when
Wonders of the Karakorum
by Pervez A. Khan
Ferozsons, Rawalpindi, 1996
160 pages, 87 colour plates, 2 maps
While climbing in the Siachen Glacier, in the eastern Karakoram, I have
Conscious of strong employee resistance to privatisation of state-owned commercial enterprises, Sri Lanka´s former United National Party (UNP) government thought of an imaginative way to sugar coat the
Living with a Bane
Regular parliamentary elections based on universal adult franchise have been a constant feature of independent Sri Lanka, continued from the inauguration in 1931 of the Donoughmore
Forty-five minutes on a flight out of Madras, the southern tip of India comes into view below the right wing. On the other side, a yellow sliver of land
Logos Vol 29 Nos 1 & 2, March/July 1990
Centre for Society and Religion, Colombo.
Construct of Traditional Catholic Theology
The development of theology concerning Mary—or of Manology—
Although published in 1990, Mary and Human Liberation had not created too many ripples until the Vatican decided it was heresy and excommunicated its 72-year-old Sri Lankan author,
After suffering a near-death experience, the Colombo Plan is in the throes of a Japanese-initiated rejuvenation effort. The goal: to turn the organisation into a pan-Asian agency
