by Dr Channa Ratnatunga The human brain has been now shown to continuously adapt to demands of a life-time. This is referred to as Neuroplasticity. It...
by Kumar David Today’s column is in two parts. The first relates to a profoundly important concern, the second to a profanity if you call it...
By Hugh Karunanayake The collection of stamps as a hobby commenced with the issue of the “Penny Black” in Britain in the mid nineteenth century and...
Avishka Mario Senewiratne’s “Noel Crusz’s Little Bike Lost” is a well-researched and well-written book which gives the whole story about late Fr. Noel Crusz (St Joseph’s...
By Uditha Devapriya Sri Lanka is a fractured state, divided along ethnic, economic, and ideological lines. It has seen its share of civil wars, insurrections, and...
Science has advanced but has philosophy retreated to the ivory tower? Economists and historians are taking an ever more visible role in public life but why...
By Dr. Justice Chandradasa Nanayakkara Buddhism is the teaching founded by Buddha about 2500 years ago. Buddha is one who has attained bodhi. Bodhi means wisdom...
By Uditha Devapriya The three films that Lester James Peries directed for Ceylon Theatres – Golu Hadawatha (1968), Akkara Paha (1969), and Nidhanaya (1970) – stand...
Cass is sick and tired, bone-weary of writing about the travails our beloved country is still going through; also disgusted of referring to some MPs and...
By Gwynne Dyer The reports about Luiz Inácio ‘Lula’ da Silva’s impending comeback as Brazilian president verged on the ecstatic in the week before last Sunday’s...