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IIT Madras’ second offshore campus likely to come up in Sri Lanka | Education

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IIT Madras’ second offshore campus likely to come up in Sri Lanka | Education

The third offshore Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) campus is likely to come up in Sri Lanka, according to sources. The proposal for an offshore IIT campus in Sri Lanka was announced last November in the 2024 Budget unveiled by Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who also serves as the finance minister.(File) The proposal for … Read more

Look for Sri Lanka’s connections to Southorn Playground in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai on a trip around the island nation, ‘Pearl of the Indian Ocean’

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Look for Sri Lanka’s connections to Southorn Playground in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai on a trip around the island nation, ‘Pearl of the Indian Ocean’

Southorn was introduced to Woof by her brother, the English literary figure Leonard Woolf, when the two men worked as colonial administrators in what was then British Ceylon. Southorn Playground in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, is linked to colonial Ceylon (now called Sri Lanka). Photo: Jonathan Wong Bella Woof was an accomplished writer in her … Read more