by Chandra Arulpragasam In 1958 I went to a lecture on coconut cultivation, because I knew nothing of the subject. The lecturer, a well-known coconut planter,...
Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka They say, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is a duck. Well, if...
BP Peiris (Excerpted from Memoirs of a Cabinet Secretary) (Continued from last week) Mervyn’s first question on my reporting to him in response to his letter...
by Hugh Karunanayake Seventy five years ago, the Thurstan Road/ Cambridge Place thoroughfare was one of the most picturesque in Colombo. It was lined on either...
Excerpted from the authorized biography of Thilo Hoffmann by Douglas B. Ranasinghe In the 1950s and 60s Thilo kept a flat-bottomed aluminium boat fitted with an...
by Dhammike Amarasinghe former Adviser to the President & former Chairman, Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation That ( I mean the title of this piece), is in...
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Center for Human Rights and Development (CHRD) have welcomed the findings recently made by a United Nations...
Do we consume more than we produce? by Kumar David There are gentlemen (and ladies too I presume) who pontificate in learned terms that it is...
by Vijaya Chandrasoma Former President Donald Trump held the first rally last week to announce his candidature for the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidency at...
By Prof.Kirthi Tennakone Decades ago, language, classics, science, and mathematics emphasiing geometry stood as the cornerstones of the high school curriculum, shaping students’ minds. These disciplines...