By Ramindu Perera The recent Sri Lankan visit of the former United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and events surrounding the tour have raised some...
By Prof. Kalinga Tudor Silva Sri Lanka has been working with a centrally implemented and a state centric approach to COVID-19 from the inception of the...
E-learning and technocracy: By Dr Saumya Liyanage Introduction During the first wave of corona outbreak, a group of academics gathered via Zoom online forum, at the...
will America win the world through it? By Rohana R. Wasala America is the most religious and the most nationalistic country in the world, in addition...
The “Triumph of Death” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted around 1562. Photo credit: Museo Nacional del Prado / Wikimedia by Dr Saumya Liyanage Prologue During the...
Oct 28, 2020: President Gotabaya Rajapaksa receives US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the Presidebtial Secretariat (pic courtesy President’s Office) By Shamindra Ferdinando Among...
By Lynn Ockersz A few feeble, final blasts, Coming from the strutting Trumpeter, Peter out to a dying whimper, But the heady potion, From which he...
sharing some thoughts By Charles Ponnuthurai Sarvan (Germany) What follows was prompted by Mr Kandappah Appu’s article titled ‘My friend Palitha’ in the Island, 19 June...
The National Trust – Sri Lanka Monthly Lecture Series No- 129 October 29, 2020 By Prof. Gamini Keerawella I am extremely thankful to Mr. Kanag-Isvaran, Chairman,...
By Lynn Ockersz They stare you out of countenance – These sprouting ‘For Rent or Lease’ notices, Along COVID stalked streets now stonily silent, Where bustling...