We resort to superstitious practices to ward off misfortune and achieve success. Our political leaders rush to India to worship deities, and come back, sporting beaded...
The lady with the dazzling perpetual smile; a smile that came from deep within her. With apologies to that fantastic singer, Engelbert Humperdinck, the lyrics of...
On May 18, the then Attorney General Dappula de Livera said there had been a conspiracy behind the attacks that killed 269 people and injured over...
Navy personnel attired in protective gear cleaning debris from the stricken ship, which washed ashore. (File photo) There is nothing we can do now for the...
The phenomenal economic success of China during the last few decades and the economic path followed by Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore makes one question the...
As a resident of Canada for over 50 years I have seen perhaps more than my share of Ceylon/Sri Lanka diplomatic representation in Ottawa and Toronto....
by I. P. C. MENDIS The disastrous end of the vessel X-press Pearl is now a fait accompli. The environmental damage to Sri Lanka is plain to...
It should be clear by now to the dimmest sportsman and sportswoman that what we have here, far from being the myth of ‘white superiority’, is a...
Reading the above captioned news item in your issue of 31st May, my thoughts go back to the 1960s, when I was attached to the then...
Our good friend, one-time hero of the University students (during JR Jayewardene regime), former Member of Parliament, and former Member of the Southern Provincial Council, Venerable...