by Hugh Karunanayake Much has been written about the visit of Prince Alfred, the second son of Queen Victoria, the reigning monarch of the far flung...
Sri Lanka’s crisis is the outcome of unsustainable policies, that pandered to the unrealistic expectations of an entitled citizenry, rich and poor alike. Anila Dias Bandaranaike,...
UNDP Resident Representative in Sri Lanka, Azusa Kubota observes that there is a gap between the country’s public finance and achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)....
Excerpted from the authorized biography of Thilo W Hoffmann by Douglas B. Ranasinghe In his field work for Baurs Thilo had to travel the length and...
In my column last Sunday I wrote admiringly of the three leaders of Britain, Scotland and Ireland – all of Indian and Pakistani descent. A group...
Excerpted from A Cabinet Secretary’s Memoirs by BP Peiris It was war time. Villavarayan was Legal Draftsman, H. N. G Fernando second in command and I...
By Lakshman. R. Watawala As a young professional Chartered Accountant who served as Chairman of three state institutions including the Peoples Bank during the tenure of...
by Rajan Philips Everyone is familiar with national reconciliation, some even to the point of being bored. I am using the term reconciliation in two other...
Excerpted from volume ii of the Sarath Amunugama autobiography By 1982 I had completed five years as a Secretary. During this period our Ministry had undertaken...
Cassandra received an email a couple of days ago, parts of which she quotes below, after googling to verify facts. A news item on Monday 24th...