Excerpted from the memoirs of Edward Gunawardena, Retd. senior DIG Police CHILDHOOD MEMORIES (1939) In January 1939, a few months before my fifth birthday, I was...
THE ONLY REASON WHY . . . by Selvam Canagaratna “There are defeats more triumphant than victories.” – Montaigne – “Of Cannibals” Essays (1580 – 88)....
by Parakrama Jayasinghe “Sanity has Prevailed No More Coal Power Plants” . This is the title of my article in the Sunday Island in October 2016...
by Shirley. W. Somanader I was sad to read about the demolition of one of the historical buildings in Batticaloa, namely Covington House. The street on...
by Hemantha Randunu (Translated by Uditha Devapriya) Nawala Nihal was once known as the Godfather of the Underworld. After the disappearance of Nawala Nihal, Makandure Madush...
All temples have by now completed their katina pinkamas concluding the three months vas observed by their monks from July through September or August through October,...
THE WEEK THAT WAS by Malinda Seneviratne Fire and brimstone. That’s one way of talking about the week that has passed. Fire, on account of the...
The Mahara Prison and its 11 inmates who have died, or were killed by gunshots or other means, is certainly in the mind of the people. ...
Is Sri Lanka truly ‘Non-Aligned’ by Kusum Wijetilleke (kusumw@gmail.com) and Rienzie Wijetilleke (rienzietwij@gmail.com) Sino-Sri Lankan relations date back long before the much-acclaimed rubber rice pact of...
by AUSTIN FERNANDO Dr. Wickrema Weerasooria, son of Queen’s Counsel NE Weerasooria, studied at Royal College, and entered the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya, and won Harvard...