by Rajan Philips It was said of Prime Minister SWRD Bandaranaike that “it was a grim irony that he should be called upon, at the moment...
by Kumar David The trouble started with Mr Vinasithamby, our Tamil master in school, always attired in verti and saalvai and in a pair of slippers,...
Remembered Yesterdays by J. Godwin Perera Of those Burghers, Oh! Those Burghers, we can only dream In the Arts, in Sports, in Law , or the...
by Krishantha Prasad Cooray One year ago, so-called astrologers took to two television stations to tell the nation what to expect in 2020. A person going...
(Excerpted from Senior DIG Edward Gunawardena’s memoirs) It was indeed a privilege to meet and come to know Sir James Peter Obeysekera, a doyen of the...
‘WATCH OUT, FOLKS’, IS THE WARNING . . . by Selvam Canagaratna “A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a...
The controversy over the Gazette notification issued in April 2020 under the hand of the Director-General of Health Services mandating the disposal of all Covid-19 affected...
I present to my readers this first article of Nan’s for 2021 with affectionate good wishes for a much better year than 2020. I well remember...
by David Jansze Here I am on the ocean liner THE PACIFIC SKY in the Coral Sea on a pre-Christmas voyage from Sydney to New Caledonia. ...
by Sanjeewa Jayaweera It is precisely half a century ago that our family arrived in Moscow, the capital of the then Soviet Union (USSR). Since the...