The G20 includes Sri Lanka’s top lenders and powers with influence. It must do more than just say sweet nothings. By Sanhita Ambast Global research and...
by Rajan Philips In his relatively salad days, President JR Jayewardene was known to be a superb after-dinner speaker and ballroom dancer. He was not so...
By Meera Srinivasan Early February, a group of saffron-clad Buddhist monks gathered near the Sri Lankan Parliament and burnt a copy of the 13th Amendment.They were...
by Kumar David Many people do not realise that in William Shakespeare’s (WS) plays the prose, the drama part, is actually verse, it is poetry and...
Excerpted from te authorized biography of Thilo Hoffmann by Douglas B. Ranasinghe (Continued from last week) Thilo continues: “The Ven. Bhikkhu Sumedha, a long-time friend who...
By Dr Nihal D. Amerasekera There are times I reflect on the endless twists and turns of my life’s fandango. As I age there is now...
By Ali Azeez HISTORY AND OWNERSHIP Date of First Registration: 31.10.1937 (manufactured in France around 15.8.1937) First owner: J.B. de Bonnetot of 690 Palmyrah Lodge, Colpetty,...
By Uditha Devapriya China has backed Sri Lanka’s debt plan. To be more specific, as Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, it has “given assurances that it will...
BY Geewananda Gunawardana, Ph.D. Two recent articles shed much light on the Peradeniya University and the campus life in the fifties and sixties. If those were...
Excerpted from Memories that Linger by Padmani Mendis (continued from last week) Published in Sri Lanka by The Jam Fruit Tree Publications and is available as...