tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7167149547535484177.post76581903622260761..comments2024-01-20T14:08:08.057+05:30Comments on Serendipity: The Rationale for "New Framework" in drafting a Constitution for Sri LankaRatmale,Minneriya,Sri Lankahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17252632858481217930noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7167149547535484177.post-66015858503632542272016-02-22T18:15:09.460+05:302016-02-22T18:15:09.460+05:30Excluding Colombo, where it is 95% the rest of the...Excluding Colombo, where it is 95% the rest of the Country's shopkeepers have voted with their feet, as 65% of all shop signs are still in English despite the Sinhala only policy. So this is a truly link language amongst the people.<br /><br />This means that if English were to be used as the language for trade and commerce, which for all intents and purposes it is now, the mother tongue of Sinhala and Tamil will never change and everyone is expected to be fluent in one's mother tongue.<br /><br />Most University courses are conducted and tested in English, which means those entering Uni are at a severe disadvantage due to their poor knowldege of English, handing an instant benefit to those conversant in English! negating the value of the mother tongue.<br /><br />Take a cue from Countries such as Norway, where everyone speaks Norwegian, but can speak English also! Time we return to 2016 from 1956!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7167149547535484177.post-62211201940960568102016-02-22T13:05:45.042+05:302016-02-22T13:05:45.042+05:30Check the link below, if we have the technology to...Check the link below, if we have the technology to build the world's first all electric supercar, then ask them to comment on ideas for the new Constitution, and you will be surprised what innovators and thinkers can come up with. <br /><br />Visionaries, they are the people that must be consulted not greedy lawyers who don't have anyone's interest but their own in front. Get rid of all lawyers in Politics and you will finally have a country to be proud of.<br /> <br /><br />http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20150211-meet-vega-sri-lankas-900-horsepower-supercar?ocid=ww.social.link.facebookAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7167149547535484177.post-81890123764802932022016-02-22T12:41:00.053+05:302016-02-22T12:41:00.053+05:30Agreed
Only a totally new concept can be justifi...Agreed<br /><br />Only a totally new concept can be justified, if we are going through the agony of a new Constitution. Otherwise it will just as well be an amendment full of flaws, again!!<br /><br />The question then is if we have any visionaries left to enact this? None that I know of as those in Parliament may as well still fiddle, as they are mere Montessori kids(sorry I do a disservice to Maria, because if they followed her course they would be thinkers and visionaries!)<br /><br />We do have free thinkers, find them, have a competition with the right challenge, and you will be surprised how original their thinking is. <br /><br />Sri Lanka's problem is that fools are leaders whilst the brains are hidden away, working overtime trying to neutralize the ill effects of the fools paradise, that they have no time to get involved in Constitution writing so a bunch of fossils will take the glory.<br /><br />Find the top 50 self made men and women of Sri Lanka, and look what they come up with. You will then have the answer to a new World for Sri Lanka.<br /><br />For starters there will be no such thing as a free lunch!<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com