by Ravi Bandaranaike In 300 BC, Mahinda Thera, bringer of Buddhism to Lanka and son of the Great Emperor Ashoka, said to king Devanampiyatissa of Sri...
by Rajan Philips To burn or to bury? That has become the bedeviling Covid-19 question in Sri Lanka with no respect for the dead and no...
We have read some interesting stories in this newspaper about Burghers who flew their flags in the administrative services and elsewhere including in the sports field. But no...
by Nihal de Alwis It is time that the Government and agencies like the Justice Ministry, AG’S Department, Legal Draftmans Dept. and the Police, form a...
(Excerpted from the memoirs of Rtd. Senior DIG Police Edward Gunawardena) Until the mid fifties there were no organized sports facilities for the youth of the...
by Vijaya Chandrasoma The Constitution of the United States of America came into force in 1789, and is regarded as the oldest written national constitution in...
by Rohini Marasinghe- Retired Judge of the Supreme Court The President appears to have issued a directive to the Ministry of Justice to present a paper...
(“From Essays on Sri Lankan Cricket compiled by Michael Roberts”) by Neville Jayaweera The image of Don Bradman exercised almost a mesmeric hold over the imagination...
AMERICANS – AND THE WORLD – SHOULD WATCH OUT . . . by Selvam Canagaratna “They talk of a man betraying his friends, his sweetheart. There...
by Gwynne Dyer “Get your rosaries off our ovaries,” chanted the women marching in support of the referendum that made abortion legal in Ireland in 2018....