To those who knew her, Nanda Pethiyagoda Wanasundara or Nan to her readers, conjures up the image of a graceful lady immaculately dressed in an Osariya....
Diyalagoda is a sleepy coastal village near the Maggona Bazaar, about three miles from Beruwala. My ancestral home, ‘Church View,’ stood beside the backyard of St....
The identity of Pittsburgh, the city of three rivers, was forged by steel and coal through the mid-1950s. The city sits at the confluence of the...
Can the democracy of the US last more years of such Pyrrhic victories under Donald Trump? King Pyrrhus made this statement when he won a war...
Well.. “I’m the boss”, he joked, but the room understood the message without needing translation. Donald Trump had arrived at the G7 carrying something far more...
A striking feature of current international relations (eg. Ukraine, Iran and Israel) is the almost total absence of the U.N. in any of these proceedings. The...
Soon after the outbreak of war in Sri Lanka, a borderland wedged between, and connecting the north and east, called Manal Aru by Tamil-speakers and Weli...
Towards the end of September 1996, a few days before I was due to leave on an official visit to Sweden, a major crisis arose. Some...
FROM THE PATHFINDER COLLECTION A Map in the Family Built up over three generations, the Pathfinder Collection contains books, objects, and historical materials reflecting Sri Lanka’s...
Beyond Stabilisation: “Development is not about where you are today, but where you can be tomorrow if you make the right investments today.” – Lee Kuan...