By Sasanka Perera Meng Ke (also known as Mencius), the Chinese philosopher, who lived between 372 BC and 289 BC, has been in my mind lately...
By Susantha Hewa Whether we like it or not, the world is market driven, and business interests more or less impact all social institutions, education being...
By Lynn Ockersz Those hard knocks from Lenin, Are yet to sink in; He said when the West went for a free-for-all, Over who was foremost...
By Dr. Nirmala Chandrahasan The recent discovery of name- boards in public institutions which have omitted one of the national languages, namely Tamil, only to replace...
June 29, 2001: The late Rajeewa Jayaweera with the then CEO Peter Hill in Chennai where he was SriLankan Airlines Manager, Southern India. Pic was taken...
‘Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.’ – John Maynard Keynes By Usvatte-aratchi (The writer has...
By Lynn Ockersz The 10 year old is thrown out of his wee hour dream, He thought he heard his school van, Screetch outside his...
Sri Lanka facing its own bullets? Actual independence for the dominion of Ceylon came on February 4, 1948, when the constitution of 1947 went into effect. The constitution...
Prof. Peiris, flanked by Justice Minister Ali Sabry, PC (left) and State Minister Ajith Nivard Cabraal addresses the media at the Information department on May 29...
By Prof.Kirthi Tennakone, National Institute of Fundamental Studies (ktenna@yahoo.co.uk) In the late 1850s Louis Pasteur discovered organisms seen only through a microscope cause putrefaction of dead...