He missed out on RAF service during WWII Lokusatu Heva Sumanadasa was born on December 3, 1910. His family hailed from Ambalangoda and he was the...
( 05/01/1928 ~06/02/2021) A son-in-law remembers Our beloved Amma, Beatrice, is no more. The rock around which the family’s hopes and fearsflapped, sometimes swirled and raged...
Educated persons, sports people, the upper and middle classes in Pakistani society and those sick of the run-of-the-mill South Asian politician greeted Imran Khan being elected...
by Sanjeewa Jayaweera This article is a sequel to the one I wrote last week titled “Why did the MP’s jump the vaccine queue?” There is...
WHILE COCOONED IN MAR-A-LARGO . . by Selvam Canagaratna “There’s no longer a chief of staff to screen his calls and he keeps no predictable working...
by Vijaya Chandrasoma I have no pretensions of being a sports writer, but the terrible high speed motor accident that nearly killed Tiger Woods last week...
(Excerpted from the Memoirs of Senior DIG (Retired) Edward Gunawardene) During my short attachment to the CID I not only got some practical experience in criminal...
by Air Vice Marshal [retired] A B Sosa VSV, psc It is said in several fora that when we were given Independence on a platter by...
“This country belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it,...
by Sarath Amunugama It is a tragic coincidence that two emblematic figures of JR Jayewardene’s historic 1977 victory – Neville Fernando and WJM Lokubandara-should succumb to...