“We shall always strive to delve and to dive To search the immeasurable universe For answers in a naïve hope to somehow satisfy The acutely churning...
by Kumar David Everybody is fed up with news of impending catastrophe; covid that will not go away even in 2022, climate change that threatens to...
Two more school shootings by Vijaya Chandrasoma The American love affair with guns, mostly of white Republicans living in the “southern slave states”, continues unabated. Apart...
In an interview with the Sunday Island, Hiran Cooray, Chairman, Jetwing Symphony PLC and the Chair of the Advisory Committee to the Ministry of Tourism, moots...
In one’s journey in life, one comes across many types of people. Some who do not meanmuch to you, many whom you forget after the first...
by Anura Gunasekera More than fifty years ago, my friend Jayasena Sirimanne, then a struggling amateur actor-cum-producer, and I, impressed by the dark, saturnine good looks...
By Uditha Devapriya In my very brief essay on the history of the SLFP, I pointed out that several events preceded and laid the groundwork for...
by Manik de Silva The death last week of Nihal Ratnaike, among the country’s most senior English language journalists, brought memories of the fun days at...
by Ravi Samarasinha During the last decade I have had the good fortune to enjoy numerous days at Yala, the premier wildlife park after the unfortunate...
by PROF. TISSA VITARANA The global economic crisis has been aggravated by the health crisis due to the Covid-19 coronavirus. In Sri Lanka these have been...