By Hm Nissanka Warakaulle The former Kandy town now has progressed to a city. During the time Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) got independence Kandy was not...
Excerpted from Memoirs of a Cabinet Secretary by BP Pieris We have an unusual practice at the Ceylon Bar where lawyers address each other by their...
It was election time several years ago, and two candidates were vying for the Galle seat. A fellow club member took a thousand rupee bet with...
By Uditha Devapriya “The ideological direction of the journal will be radical in that it will unremittingly question the values and systems that hinder development. It...
KKS Perera in the Sunday Island of March 6 wrote on the Women’s Brigade of Suriyamal fame: Marxist independence struggle in the 30s/40s. It was good...
By C. A. Chandraprema The local government elections that were scheduled to be held on the 9th March will not be held and the alternative date...
It is welcome news for progressive opinion in the global South that some seven countries, thus far seen as having been among the poorest countries of...
I did mention in my article, ‘The right choice for Top Model of the World’, published in The Island of February 24th, that Sadani Peiris has...
They started out as musicians, performing with various bands, in Sri Lanka, before they decided to seek greener pastures, elsewhere. Anton Goonetilleke performed with several outfits,...
By Rohana R. Wasala I concluded a previous article published (not in The Island) on January 28, 2023 touching on the deplorable situation that innocent Sri...