BY OMAR KAMIL The Presidential Election of 1988 was held amid fear of disruption and death threats to campaigners. During the election period, a curfew was...
(Excerpted from Selected Journalism by HAJ Hulugalle) Norman Edward Weerasooria was the youngest of the three sons of Mudaliyar Weerasooria who came of an old Kandyan...
(Excerpted from the Merrill. J. Fernando autobiography) “There should be no greater priority than ensuring that the quality of the air we breathe, the rainfall that...
You may wonder why I write about a now dead Russian, this Sunday. Three reasons: I had seen news on him on BBC newscasts a couple...
By ACB Pethiyagoda Accounts of conflicts in remote jungle areas between man and elephant appear in our newspapers regularly. They make sad reading – man and...
by Avishka Mario Senewiratne With the passing of time, Lorenz did not have the time he would like to dedicate to the arts as before. The...
By Uditha Devapriya “The architecture of the Ceylonese order at Independence had two pillars. One, the UNP built by D. S. Senanayake. The other, Lake House,...
Marilyn Monroe’s genius and tragedy of her life By Dahami P. Samarathunga I remember watching “Blonde”, with a few of friends back in 2022 and finding...
(WION)Tharaka Balasuriya, Minister of state for foreign Affairs, spoke exclusively to WION’s diplomatic correspondent Sidhant Sibal on the sidelines of Raisina Dialogue 2024 in New Delhi. Balasuriya weighed...
(UNICEF) Five-year-old Kirthi and her friends were brimming with excitement as they entered their pre-school in June 2023. Housed in an old tea estate storage building...