This past November and December Ditwah showed us how dark, eerie and haunting catastrophes cyclones can be. Past generations have suffered as shown in 1911, the...
In the imperiled IOR’s ‘Isle of Smiles’, The vital ‘National Honesty Week’, Has sadly gone unobserved, In an unsettling sign of our times, That honesty is...
Sri Lanka recently sought Saudi assistance to introduce advance radar technology, capable of detecting approaching targets and drone capability to meet aerial threats. On behalf of...
Artificial Intelligence has rapidly moved from being a specialised technological field into a major social force that shapes economies, cultures, governance, and everyday human life. The...
Enhancing Sensibility In our contemporary culture, we have lost our age-old tradition of intergenerational transmission of stories through spoken word, and our children have lost their...
The town’s teeming, brilliant green, Where spritely sports held sway, Wears the air of a desolate waste, Since life has ground to a rude halt, In...
Indian Foreign Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar recognised Hambantota harbour as a Chinese military facility that underlined intimidating foreign military presence in the Indian Ocean. Jaishankar was...
A Tribute to Professor H. L. Seneviratne – Part I My earliest memories of the eminent anthropologist, Professor H. L. Seneviratne date back to my childhood,...
The years have painfully trudged on, But she’s yet to have answers to her posers; What became of her bread-winning husband, Who went missing amid the...
In September 1939, as Europe descended once more into catastrophe, E. H. Carr published The Twenty Years’ Crisis. Twenty years had separated the two great wars—twenty years to reflect,...