The news of the recent demise of Geoff Weinman after a long span of 93 years did not come as a surprise to me. I am...
By Keith Noyahr Many have been my blessings over the past 15 years after a fresh lease of life afforded me in 2008. Spending quality time...
By Saman Indrajith CWC leader and Water Supply and Estate Infrastructure Minister Jeevan Thondaman says that if President Ranil Wickremesinghe decides to run in the upcoming...
(Concluding instalment of Padmani Mendis’ autobiography focused on her global work on Community Based Rehabilitation of the disabled that took her to many parts of the...
By Dr Nihal D Amerasekera Sir Noel Coward (1899-1973) was a flamboyant Englishman. He was a playwright, actor, singer and much more. Noel Coward was Knighted...
by Dr Nihal Jayawickrama In Parliament, a few weeks ago, the President claimed that the Constitutional Council was an “executive body”. The Leader of the Opposition...
BY Kumar David Some readers may recall that about six months ago I reported in this column that a group of Sangha (Buddhist monks) had taken...
By Uditha Devapriya “She vigorously defended apartheid as a necessary bulwark against black domination and the communism that engulfed her native Yugoslavia. [She]… thought Africans inferior...
By Nihal Seneviratne The British Government having perused and studied the political systems in place after the establishment of the Donoughmore Constitution which established two State...
by Gamini Seneviratne The vermin are active wherever they can reach. The question of method does not interest them. Nor does the identity of their victims...