by Dr Nihal Jayawickrama It is difficult to comprehend why the Government is seeking to introduce a monstrosity of a Bill, ostensibly to combat terrorism, when...
(The war years) Excerpted from Chosen Ground: The Clara Motwani Saga by Goolbai Gunasekara When war broke out in 1939 its reverberations were worldwide, of course....
by Prof Manouri Senanayake, President Servants of the Buddha Nestled behind the Mettarama temple in Lauries Road Bambalapitiya and accessed through the gates of the hallowed...
Historic and most noteworthy is that England, Scotland and Ireland have people of Indian and Pakistani descent as their heads of government. Remarkable, as India was...
by Nihal Seneviratne It is with a small sense of pride that I record that most of the boys who joined Royal in January 1945, calling...
By Ryhana Raheem The Biodiversity Skills Enhancement Project-the Public and Private sectors By the mid- 1990s, March for Conservation (MfC) seemed to have accomplished much, particularly...
by Dhammike Amarasinghe Synopsis The current economic crisis is not something brought about solely by corruption in high places or some recent policy mistakes of the...
Excerpted from a Cabinet Secretary’s Memoirs by BP Peiris (Continued from Apr. 9) Mervyn was succeeded as Legal Draftsman by P. C. Villavarayan, a classical scholar...
Readers may find the title of this article a bit intriguing so let me explain at the outset that it refers to the President’s dilemma. He...
There is a pithy Sinhala saying that I surmise derived from the sinking of the Titanic where while the unsinkable ship was submerging in the Atlantic...