by Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka The Communist Party of Sri Lanka (CPSL) will celebrate its 80th anniversary early next month. That will mark the 80th birthday not...
Excerpted from the authorized biography of Thilo Hoffmann by Douglas. B. Ranasinghe Set out below is an account of Thilo Hoffmann’s other work in nature conservation...
(Excerpted from Chosen Ground: The saga of Clara Motwani by Goolbai Gunesekera) Having British and American mothers also meant that we were spared much of the...
by Chandra Arulpragasam The first step in the implementation of the tenancy reforms under the Paddy Lands Act of 1958 was to identify the tenant cultivators...
(Excerpted from volume ii of the Sarath Amunugama autobiography) In the final years of the gerontocracy that ruled the Communist Party and the USSR we received...
A friend in Australia sent me this article from the Daily Telegraph of 15 June by Amit Roy, which I wish to share with the readers...
(Excerpted from the Memoirs of a Cabinet Secretary by BP Peiris) It is time to get back to D.S. It was early 1950. The Prime Minister...
Excerpted from Memories that Linger: My journey in the word of disability by Padmani Mendis Knowing how to teach using the scientific method gave me confidence...
Cassandra recently was at the receiving end of an act of hooliganism. After the incident occurred, the thought of making it to the nearest police station...
By GEORGE BRAINE My sister and I were at the Beach Cemetery in Gallipoli, where 285 British Commonwealth troops are buried. Our Turkish guide was listing...