by Vijaya Chandrasoma The most important presidential election in the history of the United States is currently in progress. Neither President Trump nor Vice President Biden...
by K. L. Gunaratne With nearly 500,000 smallholders in total, the tea smallholder sector is a significant contributor to the production and output of Ceylon Tea...
SIR SEAN CONNERY by Anura Gunasekera As a teen my introduction to James Bond was “Casino Royale”, a tattered paperback copy bought second-hand, for a few...
by Gamini Seneviratne Form-mates, classmates perhaps in Mr. J E V Pieris’s IA, I seem to recall also the ‘J’ in J Godwin Perera. His reminiscences...
Bhante Dhammika of Australia According to the Samyutta Nikaya, a group of monks once approached the Buddha and told him they had decided to travel to...
by Anila Dias Bandaranaike, Ph.D. The world has changed significantly since COVID-19 hit humanity less than a year ago. This virus has brought human activity as...
PSYCHOLOGIST DAN McADAMS ON DONALD TRUMP . . . by Selvam Canagaratna “We forget because we must / And not because we will.” – Matthew Arnold,...
Remembered Yesterdays by J. Godwin Perera ‘Babi Achchi’ immortalized the humble bicycle with that baila classic still heard and sung when drinks, ‘bites’ and men get...
What a great nation we are! We have a Cabinet Minister – the one in charge of health – offering to sacrifice herself to the sea,...
The Island stated two shared-by-many-facts spot-on in its editorial of 3 November. Cass quotes them below: “Trump’s political style makes one wonder whether he is of...