Piquant exchange with beautiful French immigration officer Reading the “Economist” magazine in my employer’s library inPerth, and in responding to an advertisement in it, brought itsrewards...
As always, it was a pleasure to open the pages of the Ceylon Journal. As always I say, for it is difficult to remember that this...
A true story by Senake Godamunne In late 1979 when my wife, Erica, our son Karim and I were living in Loose, near Maidstone, Kent, England,...
On 8 January 2026, I delivered a talk at an event at the University of Colombo marking the retirement of my longtime friend and former Professor...
Climate change is no longer a distant or abstract threat to Sri Lanka’s biodiversity. It is already driving local extinctions — particularly among lizards trapped in...
Enabling Education-to-Income Pathways through Dual-Use Devices The deployment of tablets and Chromebook-based devices for emergency education following Cyclone Ditwah presents an opportunity that extends beyond short-term...
Private tuition is well entrenched in most countries including rich countries like Singapore and Finland, which are believed to have the best education systems in the...
The Dispilio tablet is a wooden artefact bearing linear marks, unearthed in 1993 during George Hourmouziadis’s excavations of the Neolithic site of Dispilio in Greece. A...
The ocean waters surrounding Sri Lanka have cooled significantly over the past few days, with colder water moving from north to south along the eastern seaboard...
It was a real shock to read Prof. Tissa Vitarana’s piece “Nihal Seneviratne, an exemplary Secretary-General of Parliament” in the e-paper of The Island on Saturday...