A newly hatched blue and gold macaw bred at the Pathfinder Wildlife Preservation Centre being attended to by a staff member Sisira Kumara. The Pathfinder Wildlife...
By Uditha Devapriya I’d like to begin this tribute with a memory. I wasn’t always an avid reader of newspapers. My father, on the other hand,...
BY HM Nissanka Warakaulle The 130th anniversary of the founding of Kingswood College, Kandy, fell on 04 May. This famous school, in the hill capital of...
Some months ago, Anoushka, Abhishek, Sarthak, Garvita and Rishabh wrote to me from Thapar Institute and Technology, Patiala College, in Patiala, requesting guidance with an animal...
By Debapriya Mukherjee Former Senior Scientist Central Pollution Control Board, India The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that the veneer of civilization is very thin. we did...
In the year 1973, the Galle Cricket Club playing their Daily News Trophy match against the Chilaw Cricket Club, registered the highest partnership of 210 runs...
I am hopeful that, in my lifetime, I am going to see a disruptive change in the eating and wearing of animal flesh. It is coming...
by Dr Rohan H Wickramasinghe It was a delight and encouraging to read in The Island editorial of 13th April the information that the Koha is...
There is a school for 400 children in Solan, Himachal, called Southvale: The World School. The school is run by young MBAs. The owner is Rishabh Chopra...
By Uditha Devapriya Fernand Braudel’s “The Identity of France, Volume I: History and Environment”, translated by Siân Reynolds. HarperPerennial, 432 pp., 1993. Since at least Jason...