Wishing Lalith A on his birthday and being woken up by a 4.30 am phone call by the president President Premadasa, continued to be Minister until...
In late November 2025, Cyclonic Storm Ditwah hit Sri Lanka, pouring a deluge that would trigger one of the most devastating landslide events in recent memory....
My stint at Dankotuwa Porcelain – Episode 1 A directorship that nobody wanted As I mentioned in a previous episode, my involvement with Dankotuwa Porcelain came...
World Health Day 2026, observed on April 7, under the above theme, commemorates the anniversary of the World Health Organization’s establishment in 1948, as well as...
March 13th would have been Richard de Zoysa’s 68th birthday. That seems paradoxical, for he was the epitome of youth and energy, and I cannot imagine...
It was on March 10 last year, that unfortunate day when Athula , my friend for 30 long years, had left his residence for the usual...
Efficacy measures an organisation’s capacity to achieve its mission and intended outcomes under planned or optimal conditions. It differs from efficiency, which focuses on achieving objectives...
International Day of Mathematics falls tomorrow The approximate value of Pi (π) is 3.14 in mathematics. Therefore, the day 14 March is celebrated as the Pi...
The recent humanly costly torpedoing of an Iranian naval vessel in Sri Lanka’s Exclusive Economic Zone by a US submarine has raised a number of issues...
A Living Legend of the Peradeniya Tradition: (First part of this article appeared yesterday) H.L. Seneviratne’s tenure at the University of Virginia was marked not only...