Urgent spares for medical equipment: It is now acknowledged that the medical profession has borrowed procedures from the aviation industry, such as the use of checklists,...
There was a riddle which went like this. “A man switched off the light and went to sleep. In the morning he switched on his radio...
A N A P P R E C I A T I O N The curtain has come down on Gamini Weerakoon, 82, one of the...
The other day, thinking twice before going all the way to Kandy from Peradeniya for a simple haircut, I thought “What the heck, let me try...
In a letter published by The Island recently, Mrs. Goolbai Gunasekera, has showered us with pearls of wisdom drawn from her life-long experience as an educator.In The Island of 06...
We recently had to take my grandson to the Eye Clinic at Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children to do the PMT (Post Mydiaritic Test) eye test....
A few decades ago the SSC (Senior School Certificate) was the equivalent of the GCE O Level examination, One had to obtain three credit passes to...
by Harim Peiris As we approach the end of 2023 and with about a year to go for the next presidential election due before end 2024,...
Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, more popularly known simply as Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet, Hanafi faqih, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian and Sufi mystic, once declared “I...
By Geewananda Gunawardana, Ph.D. My high school teacher, late professor Kotagama Wachissara Thero, told us that there is no “ism” in what the Buddha taught. “You...