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		<title>Sri Lanka stories blog : brief survival guide and realisations about writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 04:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sri Lanka stories blog is turning out to be a dangerously compulsive online project. The premise is simple. Write a 55-word story based on a word announced via a twitter account. I find this to be brutally hard. It also forces you to notice themes and ideas lurking in the dimly lit parts of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cerno.wordpress.com&#038;blog=753528&#038;post=3958&#038;subd=cerno&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>People&#8217;s Republic of Dehiwala flag &#8211; Wikipedia entry draft</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 01:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a draft for a Wikipedia entry on the flag. Please use the comment box in this post for corrections/additions. Image created by the chair of the PRD&#8217;s. Central cultural committee. The flag of People&#8217;s Republic of Dehiwala, Sri Lanka&#8217;s only openly nuclear armed country, appears quite unorthodox. However it is rich in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cerno.wordpress.com&#038;blog=753528&#038;post=3524&#038;subd=cerno&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Halal controversy shuts down iconic Sri Lankan club</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 04:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sri Lanka&#8217;s Halal controversy has claimed another victim. This time it&#8217;s the permanent closure of a club that was a part of the country&#8217;s early anti colonial era resistance. How this came about is a complicated story. The details are easily lost amidst charges of islamophobia, cultural exploitation and the manic news cycle. It also [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cerno.wordpress.com&#038;blog=753528&#038;post=2880&#038;subd=cerno&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 03:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you want to drive a variety of Lamborghini sports models in Colombo and get paid for it? Then this post is for you. Privacy focused, Colombo based, global high net worth individual seeks skilled chauffeur for her fleet of sports Lamborghinies The primary responsibility of the role is to skilfully and safely drive any [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cerno.wordpress.com&#038;blog=753528&#038;post=2945&#038;subd=cerno&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>6th year blogger</title>
		<link>http://cerno.wordpress.com/2013/02/06/6th-year-of-blogging-begins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 06:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its been VI years since I posted this. Too much has faded into the rear view mirror of memory. If there&#8217;s a positive sign, its that I can bear to read my own writing. Or should I say the stuff that I typed because the voices in my head told me to ? Sadly after [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cerno.wordpress.com&#038;blog=753528&#038;post=2922&#038;subd=cerno&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lanka’s deadly geo political game that everyone wants to deny</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 04:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Political tremors over a controversial colonel from the last Sri Lankan war (see earlier post) is masking tectonic shifts in the island’s political future. Those who notice the details cannot ignore that there is a build up to a Vesuvius like eruption of war. Yet like the citizens of Pompeii, the rumblings are ignored, denied [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cerno.wordpress.com&#038;blog=753528&#038;post=2872&#038;subd=cerno&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can you explain this billboard ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 05:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think this is an incomplete bill board. Or its heavily encrypted with super secret symbolism readable only to cult members or symbologists. My regular commute doesn&#8217;t take me on this route anymore &#8211; snapped it during the holiday scurrying around. So I&#8217;m not sure if its complete by now. If you can interpret what [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cerno.wordpress.com&#038;blog=753528&#038;post=2910&#038;subd=cerno&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Controversial colonel&#8217;s return creates another political crisis in Sri Lanka</title>
		<link>http://cerno.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/controversial-colonels-return-creates-crisis-in-sri-lanka/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 04:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rarely does the return of a famous son plunge a land into such a slow motion crisis. On the face of it the crisis appears to centre on emotional arguments about historical trivia. Yet it&#8217;s decisiveness has frightening implications about the future post war stability of the island. To understand its significance, it is essential [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cerno.wordpress.com&#038;blog=753528&#038;post=2800&#038;subd=cerno&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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