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  1. Gibbs

    Sri Lankan Infrastructure and development thread (rail,road,skyscrapers etc etc)

    Atm most are two or three stroke petrol engines, Highly pollutant with emissions and noise,(Another brilliant gift from India :disagree:) This is a about converting the whole engine in to electric with a in build battery such as those used in EV's, Complete overhaul inc the drive train
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    Malaysia "persecutes" Rohingya, tortures them with caning

    Malaysia doesn't need validation from any one, Good on them.. Their borders are paramount to them.. They already have massive issues with the rohingya's withing the country with crime and being a public nuisance
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    Sri Lanka to remove race, religion and marital status of parents from birth certificates

    The forced implementation of the failed Sinhala only policies in 56' repercussions wont allow that, On the other hand they have the Tamil language supremacists promoted and propagated from Tamil Nadu who think they are the center of the universe.. So never shall the two meet in the middle.. Best...
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    Sri Lanka to remove race, religion and marital status of parents from birth certificates

    Well you need to promote national identity but not by crushing ethnic identities, If not it's fascism Religious identity is a misnomer i agree, Religion should not have any role in public sphere at all Well as far as i know only the birth certificate mentions those clauses.. ID's, Driving...
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    Sri Lanka to remove race, religion and marital status of parents from birth certificates

    I dont think it happens that way, I'm not so insightful on Sri Lankan law, But as the OP states kids have had trouble enrolling in to schools etc due to this clause
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    Sri Lanka to remove race, religion and marital status of parents from birth certificates

    You may choose not to, Good on you but that's not how it's been used by politicians mainly in the ruling party, monks and others with vested interests in Sri Lanka Not even 24 hours gone since the announcement and this from a powerful minister close to the president...
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    Sri Lanka to remove race, religion and marital status of parents from birth certificates

    Sorry then you're completely oblivious to the ground realities
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    Sri Lanka to remove race, religion and marital status of parents from birth certificates

    Not disputing that Sri Lankans of all backgrounds are a mixture but given the background of recent ethno nationalist turn especially since the current govt took power on that particular agenda, There's reason to be apprehensive.. Sri Lankan national identity must and need to be encouraged but...
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    Sri Lanka to remove race, religion and marital status of parents from birth certificates

    As far as i know, Only the Birth certificate required those details, Other documentations only mentions the nationality
  10. Gibbs

    Sri Lanka to remove race, religion and marital status of parents from birth certificates

    National identity and the development of it, Is a worthy cause but not to the detriment of ethnic or religious identities, That's where the true intentions of the state come in to question, Having said that the feed back from the public and especially those from minority communities seems positive
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    Pakistanis, Disengage from all Indians on PDF!

    Yeah, Please highlight where terrorism is mentioned and as i mentioned i have no axe to grind with you or few others here, Most are Pakistani nationalists so it's inevitable your lack of tolerance to Indian nationalists but that's not my crux of the matter Btw dont you think you're...
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    Sri Lanka to remove race, religion and marital status of parents from birth certificates

    Good move if it's without any ulterior motive to further erase minority identities
  13. Gibbs

    Pakistanis, Disengage from all Indians on PDF!

    Your words not mine
  14. Gibbs

    Pakistanis, Disengage from all Indians on PDF!

    Lol.. I have no axe to grind with you, Ignore all you want and who you want, Doesn't matter an iota to me, you're just another simple recruit of a larger agenda to make a respectable defense forum in to something else.. Good day
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    India is ‘punching bag’ for South-Asian neighbours, says external affairs minister

    Well it's not Pakistan, Nepal or Sri Lanka crying on media stating that nobody loves them, It's the FM of India India was firmly in the socialist/soviet block during the cold war, And played a major part in the proxy wars in the region behest of them, To date your main arms supplier and...
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    India is ‘punching bag’ for South-Asian neighbours, says external affairs minister

    Fact remains academic discussion or not, Not a single neighboring nation of India is allied to it, Despite it's overwhelming geographic and demographic dominance in the region, Given a chance they would align with any other regional or global leader than India, Mostly because it's continued...
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    Driving around Sri Lanka

    Sri Lanka overall and Bhutan are relatively more cleaner, greener and orderly than rest of the region from my experience, Except perhaps along with Islamabad
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    Driving around Sri Lanka

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_Constitution_of_Sri_Lanka#:~:text=The Thirteenth Amendment to the,as the "link language". A complete failure except the language policy, The provincial council system that Indians hoped would lead to federalism and then separatism was...
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