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Chandani Kirinde 4 posts 0 comments

Chandani is a senior journalist with over 25 years’ experience working in print media. She writes on politics and social issues and was the Parliamentary Correspondent for the country’s leading Sunday newspaper- Sunday Times- writing the Lobby column for nearly 15 years.

Factum Perspective: Buddhism in the Cold War

Chandani Kirinde
What prompted the US government to put in place a “Buddhist policy” in Southeast Asia during the Cold War and how successful were these clandestine efforts at using a predominant religion of the region to counter the spread of communism?…