by Michael Patrick O’Leary On October 13, 2017, we heard the sad news of the death of our very dear friend, the Most Venerable Meeriyabedde Upananda...
by Lalin Fernando On two consecutive Saturdays of October, Royalists and Thomians, the pioneers in schools water polo, and their supporters converge on the Sugathadasa Indoor...
by Hugh Karunanayake The City of Galle was for many centuries the capital of the Southern Province. Until about the mid twentieth century it was self...
First death anniversary by Tisaranee Gunasekara “Here I must write, without prearrangement, details.” Andre Gide (Journal) “I’m unpacking my library.” So begins Walter Benjamin’s short essay...
Environmental activist Anoka Abeyrathne recently spoke at the Conference of Parties 27 on how the gaps in climate change policy and issues related to young people translate into...
Excerpted from vol, 2 of Sarath Amunugama’s autobiography I visited Tokyo and had discussions with the Ministry of Finance and the Nippon Electrical Corporation [NEC] to...
By Scott Solomon Associate Teaching Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University (Conversation) King Solomon may have gained some of his famed wisdom from an...
By Akila Kannadasan Back at home in Neer Kolumbu, a seaside village in Colombo, Sri Lanka, cooking came naturally to Rohini Perara. She cooked along with...
Excerpted from Nimal Wikramanayake’s A Life In The Law (Continued from last week) Time flew by and it was getting close to the date of our...
Like oil and water, science and religion are immiscible and belong to mutually exclusive domains without any interface. Whenever they have been attempted to be brought...