by Hugh Karunanayake Very few, if any, in modern Sri Lanka would aspire to the levels of eccentricity displayed by Elmer de Haan, self styed Citizen...
Over the years Royal College has produced accomplished sportsmen whose performances had been nothing short of outstanding! One such sportsman is Wijaya ‘Stanley’ Unamboowe`, affectionately named...
By Michael Patrick O’Leary Transgender Issues in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka’s first president, JR Jayewardene, famously boasted that the newly-created executive presidency gave him the power,...
By a Committee Member The Sri Lankadhara Society Ltd., founded in 1922, one of the oldest voluntary humanitarian organizations in the country, has reached its centenary...
By Dr Sumith Pilapitiya March 16, 6 pm, Jasmine Hall, BMICH For many years now, Dr Sumith Pilapitiya has publicly proclaimed the fact that Sri Lanka...
By Hm Nissanka Warakaulle The former Kandy town now has progressed to a city. During the time Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) got independence Kandy was not...
Excerpted from Memoirs of a Cabinet Secretary by BP Pieris We have an unusual practice at the Ceylon Bar where lawyers address each other by their...
It was election time several years ago, and two candidates were vying for the Galle seat. A fellow club member took a thousand rupee bet with...
By Uditha Devapriya “The ideological direction of the journal will be radical in that it will unremittingly question the values and systems that hinder development. It...
KKS Perera in the Sunday Island of March 6 wrote on the Women’s Brigade of Suriyamal fame: Marxist independence struggle in the 30s/40s. It was good...