Excerpted from Sarath Amunugama’s Kohomba Kanakariya We end this essay (on some of the country’s finest Kandyan dancers), fittingly I think, with Nittawela Gunaya whom De...
Excerpted from Senior DIG Merril Gunaratne’s “Perils of a profession” I rode into storms and tempests in Kurunegala from mid-1978. What happened in Kelaniya paled into...
In the early nineteen sixties when we met, politics here was in a kind of crisis. The Left parties were defining themselves and each other in...
The government is highly cheerful about the defeat of the SJB’s vote of no confidence on Minister Gammanpila. It was able to display its two-thirds power...
(from THE BUDDHA AND HIS TEACHINGS by Venerable Nārada Mahāthera) “The pile of bones of (all the bodies of) one man Who has alone one aeon...
I have a bone to pick with my co-Friday columnist who writes from across the ocean about the Pearl. In his July 16 column, he writes...
In this day and age where the word SIR has so much effect, my mind has wandered back to all the Sirs and of course Madams’...
S. H. Dahanayake was the leader of the common masses of Galle in the mid-1920s. He fought against the Establishment and the British Raj, letting loose...
Former US Vice President Mike Pence has drawn his foreign policy battle lines in his bid for the 2024 US presidency by reportedly labelling China an...
COVID-19 has had us in its vice-like grip for over a year. It was, and still is, a pandemic that was able to inflict many a...