by Jehan Perera President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s statement that the government will not permit the erosion of its mandate for accountable government in the context of...
Next Wednesday (25th) we celebrate Christmas, and a week later…yes, another year has ended and the dawning of a new one (January 1st). Once the Christmas...
Sri Lanka-born Roger Menezes, from the land Down Under, is in town to entertain during the festive season. Now residing in Sydney, Roger is a frequent...
Dr B. J. C. Perera MBBS(Cey), DCH(Cey), DCH(Eng), MD(Paed), MRCP(UK), FRCP(Edin), FRCP(Lond), FRCPCH(UK), FSLCPaed, FCCP, Hony. FRCPCH(UK), Hony. FCGP(SL) (Specialist Consultant Paediatrician and Honorary Senior Fellow, Postgraduate...
In homogenous language communities, it is not your awareness about the genes of your neighbour that makes you think of him as belonging to ‘your group’...
BY RANDIMA ATTYGALLE ‘The primary task of a society is to find a real teacher – one who performs his duty with perfection and dedication and...
By Anura Gunasekera It is more than two weeks since the matter of the Speaker, Asoka Ranwala’s doctorate, or lack of it, was raised in public....
We have charity dispensed by generous local persons, by foreigners who feel love for this country and wish to do something to express it, and of...
by Rajan Philips Writing obituaries becomes a poignant burden when those near and dear to us keep taking their turn while we wait for ours in...
“After Assad: Is Syria the New Libya in the Mediterranean?” is a sharp and unflinching analysis of Syria’s descent into chaos. Journalist Nilantha Ilangamuwa examines the...