What Sri Lanka’s recent disasters tell us Sri Lanka has always lived with the moods of the monsoon. For generations, people have grown used to seasonal...
Hostilities against Venezuela escalated, President Maduro accused of trafficking illegal drugs Who had been convicted by a New York Court for trafficking illegal drugs In recent...
(These lines were first written after a visit to Hambantota following the Dec. 26, 2004 Tsunami and re-posted on Dec. 2 last week on the writer’s...
One’s thoughts, deep concern and sorrow; the media and peoples’conversation has been the late November cyclone. To quote Internet Tuesday 2 December: “Latest assessments continue to...
In the period 1969/71, the Research & Development section of the State Engineering Corporation (SEC) comprised of five senior engineers, four of whom had graduated from...
Between the years 629 and 645 AD the famous Chinese monk Xuanzang traveled through Central Asia and India to visit Buddhist sacred places, learn from Indian...
Douglas Devananda took to his heels in Manila fearing an LTTE gunman was trailing us 1994 saw a new crop of MPs who had political knowledge...
A Comprehensive Examination of Human Loss, Environmental Devastation, and Governance Failure Tropical Cyclone Ditwah, which blew its way across Sri Lanka between November 27 and November...
Insights from global adaptation strategies Sri Lanka has been heavily affected by floods, and extreme flooding is rapidly becoming one of the most disruptive climate hazards...
Weather forecasts are useful. People attentively listen to them but complain that they go wrong or are not taken seriously. Forecasts today are more probabilistically reliable...