Avurudu is traditionally the most looked forward to holiday for most Sri Lankans and is celebrated across the country with seasonal food, traditional customs, and fun...
Bulath in Sinhala, Vettila in Tamil and Malayalan, Paan in Hindi, Plu in Thai, Sirih in Malay are local names for betel (Piper betle) the tender...
By Hiran W. Jayewardene Kachchativu island when I visited it in 1974 was an uninhabited and desolate place occasionally visited by fishermen to dry their nets....
The poems, termed didactic – Lovada Sangarava and Subhasitaya – have been translated as Towards Universal Well-being and Well Spoken respectively, and published as a second...
India’s ruling BJP aims to score over domestic opponents, and may not want a diplomatic row over Kachchatheevu in the Palk Strait By Nirendra Dev, New...
Crocus City Hall terrorist attack by Kumar David What on earth is happening? An unprecedented election victory for Vladimir Putin followed on the morrow by a...
PATHFINDER ALERT Pathfinder Foundation renews call for establishing a marine research station Now and then, Kachchativu island, lying halfway between the islands of Rameswaram (India) and...
(Excerpted from Selected Journalism by HAJ Hulugalle) One of the first questions my friend Leone Cattani, lawyer and journalist, asked me as he drove me in...
Is the Sri Lanka Freedom party writhing in its death throes? Is the blame for that to be laid at Maithripala Sirisena’s feet? He wrested the...
The recent bombing of the Iranian consulate in Syria, suspected to have been carried out by Israel, takes Middle East confrontations to harrowing heights. A most...