I have been here, admittedly locked up in my own flat, for a week but have managed to form some views from phone and WhatsUp conversations....
Vijaya Chandrasoma From 1993, the third week in October has in the United States been dedicated to National Character, a time to “highlight character education and...
Hemantha Randunu Samarasinghe Arachchige Madush Lakshitha, born to a middle-class family in Kamburupitiya in 1979, had nothing in his early life to suggest a rise to...
Prof. Chandra Wickramasinghe University of Buckingham, UK and National Institute for Fundamental Studies, Sri Lanka Dr. Sarath C. Witana, MD Dr. Ananda Nimalsuriya, MD Philosophers and...
by Dr. Lakshman Abeyagunawardene I thought of writing this article in order to share with readers of the Sunday island newspaper, my recent experience as a...
Travel in the COVID era is refined bureaucratised purgatory Kumar David This is not a personal story though it’s based on experience. Hundreds even thousands experience...
Remembered Yesterdays by J. Godwin Perera This is the motto of Royal College, Colombo. It means ‘Learn or Depart’. Quite a stern admonishment. But this is...
by J. Godwin Perera Many readers would not have been born at this time. But the records are there and so this event need to be...
by Rajan Philips On Saturday, October 3, Pope Francis issued the second encyclical letter of his papacy, in Assisi, Italy. Entitled “Fratelli Tutti”, or Fraternity and...
President Emmanuel Macron boldly and precisely branded the recent beheading of a teacher in Paris an ‘Islamist terrorist attack’. It was just two weeks previous that...