The Yukthiya operation appears to be a last-ditch effort by the present Sri Lankan government to salvage public support ahead of the pivotal 2024 presidential election....
by Kumar David The global political scene was very left-inclined from about the mid-1960s to say 10 or 15 years ago. The sweeping trend to social...
by Rohan Wijesinha On World Wildlife Day, it is important to remember both the triumphs and the tragedies of conservation in Sri Lanka. One of these...
We begin today serializing the biography of Herbert Cooray, the founder of the Jetwing Group who earlier ran a successful business as a building contractor as...
by Avishka Mario Senewiratne “Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.”— Charles Henry Parkhurst From his humble beginnings in Matara to being the most popular...
Majority of this group became professionals byJayantha Gunasekera, PC Vice President, Royal College Union In 1949 a group of 96 students were successful in gaining entrance...
By Uditha Devapriya More than a year after he visited Sri Lanka, US Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs...
(Excerpted from Selected Journalism by HAJ Hulugalle) The centenary of the birth of W. S. Senior falls on Friday, May 10. Some of my younger readers...
Sati is a Pali term which literally means ‘memory’ or ‘retention’. In its Buddhist context it translates to mindfulness: remembering to observe; being constantly mindful of...
by ACB Pethiyagoda While reading Mr. Neville Jayaweera’s article captioned ‘The wretched of the Earth’ in this newspaper on November 16, 2008 memories came back of...