Excerpted from Memories that linger”: My journey in the world of Disability by Padmani Mendis First Impressions and First Memories But where are the trees? This...
Two weeks ago I wrote in this column about six Britishers and an American who joined the struggle for Independence in India, most of them coming...
Excerpted from the autobiography of Merril. J. Fernando Before I set out for Jap1an, in 1960, on my first overseas business trip, I was advised by...
by Z. Kamil Mohamed A global cricketing icon once said “At Trinity; Rugby players are special, and I… was only a cricketer”. Such is the pedestal...
(Excerpted from volume ii of the Sarath Amunugama autobiography) I had undertaken a mission to South Korea on behalf of the DG of UNESCO to participate...
by Kumar David Phenomenology is more than ideology. Its origin is identified with Hegel who described it as “The coming into being of knowledge”. I use...
21st death anniversary commemoration by Wg Cdr E.H.Ohlmus (SLAF Retd.) Twenty one years ago, on August 8, 1992, a bomb that exploded in an Army Land...
By Chandu Epitawala A fundamental principle in finance and economics of risk-return trade-off dictates that Government Issued Debt Instruments should yield the lowest interest rate for...
By Krishantha Prasad Cooray Someone in Sri Lanka, right now as I write, is distraught because a child, a parent or a loved one has died,...
by Dinesh Chelvathurai In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes, and cricketing controversies. From the beginning of time, Man has...