DAYAN JAYATILLEKA, Jan 2
    

It usually takes an objective, empathetic outsider to hold up a mirror before us, reflecting our achievements and our failures.  We have two in our midst: Padraig Colman who publishes in the prestigious Le Monde Diplomatique and Kath Noble, who sticks loyally to the local press when she is easily good enough to write for papers back home in the UK. Yet it is the more credentialed professional Gwynne Dyer, a commentator on world affairs whose syndicated column appears in forty five countries, author of several books (most recently on climate change) and an independent liberal-progressive if slightly cynical voice, who has best captured the considerable Sri Lankan achievement, failures and dangers ahead, as we close out this momentous year 2009 and head into a decisive 2010.  

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