In
this issue
No.
105 November 1981

Letters Update
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 classic Country
profile: Tanzania Cover
photograph: Peter Adamson
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