I wish to thank the Vice Chancellor Prof Lamavamsa, the Librarian Mr. Maheswaran, and the library staff of the University of Peradeniya, for organizing this event....
by Liyanage Amarakeerthi Text of Speech made at at a function held on August 9, 2023 to celebrate the handing over to Professor Gananath Obyesekere’s personal...
A second Trump term poses intrinsic dangers everywhere by Kumar David If ethnic confrontation (the national-question, Sinhala-Tamil animosity, call it what you will) is ever going...
by Gamini Peiris This article is written to evoke and revive the memory of two outstanding gentlemen who were responsible for the establishment of Sevanagala sugar...
But China is not in a position to defend any of the eight bases it might set up in the next two to five years, the...
(Excerpted from volume ii of the Sarath Amunugama autobiography) In fact it was Rajiv who made an attempt to break the logjam The Parathasarathy proposals had...
by Vijaya Chandrasoma (Written in February 2019) My old friend, Lalith ended his brief journey on this planet last week. He has, over the past 70+...
(Excerpted from the Merrill Fernando autobiography) Infrequently, my preoccupation with my personal business was disrupted by unexpected but welcome interruptions, in the form of foreign travel...
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds” That pronouncement, translated from the Bhagavad Gita and quoted by the creator of the atom bomb as...
(Excerpted from Memories that linger: My Journey in the World of Disability by Padmani Mendis) Barbara McNamee was from Jamaica. She became my friend when we...