HEGEL: Awesome in its Absolute Power — The Nation State

Courtesy of Richard Koenigsberg of USA

The Nation State is spirit in its … actuality … it is therefore the absolute power on earth. … The State is the Spirit of the People itself.  The actual State is animated by this spirit … The self-consciousness of one particular Nation is the vehicle for the … development of the collective spirit; … in it, the Spirit of the Time invests its Will.  Against this Will, other national minds have no rights: that Nation dominates the World.” ………….. From G.W.F. Hegel, Philosophy of Law, § 331.

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Sri Lanka’s Politicoes in Caricature … for the Aluth Avuruddha

 

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Appreciating & Protecting Sri Lanka’s Nature

RUKRAKAGANNO sponsors a TREE WALK on 26th April 2025 ……………

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A Sinhalayaa Chastises Lanka’s Two Leaders

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Student ‘Uprisings’ at Peradeniya in the Mid-1960s

The first Hantana Hatana – looking back to the violent Peradeniya Student uprising of 1965, and beyond …….

by Chandre Dharmawardana, based on an account of the events by Prof. T. Sivaparakasapillai…..

 

 

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Ridiculous Young! An IPL Debut at 14 Years …. Vaibash!

Varun Shetty, in ESPNcricinfo, April 2025

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Sustaining Irrigation Tank Bunds in Sri Lanka Today: Problems

Pamodi Waravita, in ……………………………………………………. https://www.themorning.lk/articles/OUlxiaDFNOsuMZyP9EeS

A recent heated exchange between Trade Minister Wasantha Samarasinghe and an Irrigation Department official has raised questions regarding the safety of ancient tanks islandwide.

Sri Lanka’s ancient irrigation system, which is still functional, networks thousands of small tanks and larger reservoirs to collect rainwater for use during the dry season. This keeps the country’s agriculture operational year-round, divided into two seasons – the Maha and Yala seasons.

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Trump Truly Screwed …. Up Your Arse!

 

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Importing A Cricket Pitch Wholesale …. to New York

Simon Burnton, in The Guardian Weekly, 14 June 2024

A cricket pitch grown in Adelaide has been shipped 11,000 miles via Florida to a newly built stadium in New York state.

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Remembering Lester James Peiris

Item in The Island,  6 October 2022 …https://island.lk/celebrating-lester-james-peiris/

This month’s edition of “Rendez-Vous with Yasmin and Kumar” now showing on the YouTube, channel of the Embassy of France in Sri Lanka and the Maldives, celebrates the life and world of Sri Lanka’s internationally renowned film-maker Dr. Lester James Peiris.

 His connection with France has been a “karmic tryst” ever since he took his first film Rekawa to the 1957 Cannes Film Festival. France has hosted numerous retrospectives of his body of work since then.

CANNES, FRANCE – MAY 22: Director Lester James Peries poses for photographers during the “Le Domaine” photocall at the Palais Des Festival during the 56th International Cannes Film Festival 2003 on May 22, 2003 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)

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