New Internationalist: The people, the ideas, the action in the fight for world development.

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No. 105 November 1981


LettersUpdate

SRI LANKA

Godfrey Gunatilleke looks at his country’s extraordinary progress in nutrition, health and education and asks whether it can be sustained in the 1980’s.

Sri Lanka - The facts

The other 'J.R.'
A New Internationalist interview with Sri Lankan President J.R. Jayawardene.

One nation or two
Peter Marshall reports on the Tamil question in the North...and the President replies.

With a little help from our friends

Life after Liptons
Paul Caspersz looks at Sri Lanka’s tea estates six years after nationalisation.


Confessions of a foreign expert


Souls and soup kitchens
Anuradha Vittachi profiles A.T. ‘Ari’ Anyaratne and the Sarvodaya Shramadane movement.

Missing Link
Five major dams and two billion dollars... but is the Third World’s biggest single development project reaching the poor? A report from Mahaweli by Schoaib Sultan Khan.

Tea and Times Roman

Tarzie Vittachi revisits the land of his fathers.

Ideas for action

Reviews: New books and a classicCountry profile: TanzaniaCover photograph: Peter Adamson


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