By Sanjeewa Jayaweera Despite the old saying, “the only sure things in life are death and taxes,” most of those working in Sri Lanka have never...
Reams have already been written about Shehan Karunatillaka and his Booker Prize winning satirical fictitious novel – The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. We in Sri...
(Excerpted from A Life in the Law) by Nimal Wikremanayake After an initial period of hardship, my practice took off and by 1968 I had become...
Architect C. Anjalendran remembers the legend that was Ena de Silva on her 100th birthday. Ena de Silva Aluwihare was chosen to appear as the Spirit...
By Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore, last British Governor of Colonial Ceylon Excerpted from HAJ Hulugalle’s British Governors of Ceylon (Continued from last week) On arrival in...
The 21st death anniversary of M.S. de Silva, the only Lankan journalist in my memory, who left journalism and carved out a business empire, falls on...
Excerpted from Volume two of Sarath Amunugama’s autobiography Another key figure in the JRJ regime was Esmond Wickremesinghe who has been portrayed in the media as...
By Arjuna Ranatunga Today a principal topic among many people in our country rich and poor, young and old is the lack of proper leadership which...
by Kumar David It is perverse to extract benefits for ourselves from the misery of others – the advanced (rich) economies; but actually, the suggestions I...
Part Two by Michael Patrick O’Leary A man waiting in a bus queue is anxious about an aggressive, unleashed dog who is continually barking at him...