By Ifham Nizam Ramadan is widely known as the holiest month in Islam, a time of fasting, reflection, and devotion. However, beyond its spiritual significance, Ramadan...
The love life of South Africa’s Zulu king has the country agog – and has scandalised his socially conservative subjects as he messes with tradition by...
By Anura Gunasekera On December 3, 2021, then member of parliament, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, today the President of Sri Lanka, made an impassioned speech in the...
(Excerpted from Memories of 33 year in Parliament by Nihal Seneviratne) Even though my early ambition was to join the Sri Lanka Foreign Service and travel...
(Excerpted from Fallen Leaves, an anthology of memoirs by LC Arulpragasam) Introduction The American Peace Corps was instituted by President Kennedy in 1961. Its avowed purpose...
By Lorenz Pereira (Captain – Royal College Cricket, 1958, Head Prefect, Dornhorst Prize winner and Coloursman in five sports, the recipient of the prestigious Schoolboy Cricketer...
by Nilantha Ilangamuwa The Financial Times recently published an article on the question of who will succeed Xi Jinping. But perhaps the real question is not...