A winning streak By Dr. Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena DPhil President – Chandi J. Associates Inc. Consulting, Canada Founder & Administrator – Global Hospitality Forum Learning from...
Personality that was a unique amalgam of pride, humility, grace & inner toughness From the memoirs of Chandra Wickremasinghe Retired Additional Secretary to the President With...
by M. P. Dhanapala Former Director, Rice Research and Development Institute, Batalagoda Email: maddumadhanapala@yahoo.com History is important. It keeps you away from reinventing the wheel and...
by G.A.D.Sirimal, Retd. SLAS Chandra Wickremasinghe’s interesting piece on Presidents Premadasa and Wijetunga last Sunday (Oct. 10) nudged my memory about my own encounters with these...
by Vijaya Chandrasoma I was inspired to write this essay while reading an excellent book of the same title, written by political scientists Steven Levitsky and...
The killing of a Prime Minister by Sanjiva Senanayake (PART I) Many people ‘know’ the conventional tale about the assassination of the Prime Minister of Ceylon,...
Dr Nihal Jayawickrama It was fifty years ago, on October 2, 1971, that the Governor-General, William Gopallawa, assented to the Bill that sought to abolish the...
After the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, there continues over there a painful period of adjustment and as we hear, grave shortages of essentials to...
Generations of foreign royals – particularly from the Middle East – have learned to be military leaders at the UK’s Sandhurst officer training academy. But is...
by Kumar David Well no, that’s not true, the energy price and supply crunch is not global; North America and Russia are for the time being...