Is Heartfelt Reconciliation a Better Start? by Dr D. CHANDRARATNA ‘We hear those distant drums-far away’ are the lyrics from a song by Jim Reeves, well...
Reading the above captioned article in The Sunday Island of 20 February by Goolbai Gunasekera, I went down memory lane. During World War II, there was...
China is finally leading the world out of the wilderness and into the light and warmth that Thorium energy provides. They are leading the way in...
by Dr D Chandraratna A fact check in Colombo by fellow contributor to The Island Sanjeewa Jayaweera has alerted me to the background anent the above...
Crises lead to lessons. Lessons to change and changes to progress. So, we need to learn, and to see fresh directions as we emerge from the...
Issuing a statement to the media former national cricketer, Roshan Mahanama has urged the Bandaranaike International Airport authorities to take steps to mitigate inconvenience caused to...
In a recent editorial, The Island editor recalled a statement by former MP Ranjan Ramanayake that they are all friends, meaning that these politicians of all...
By SANJA DE SILVA JAYATILLEKA In the 21st century international political theatre, unnerving in the extreme, we were treated recently to how things are likely to...
This is a short piece written after reading Prof. Susrith Mendis’s “A Short Essay” assessing the humanities and social sciences in the universities of Sri Lanka...
I was inspired to write this after reading the excellent article by Rohan Abeygunawardena published in The Island on 17 February 2022. Mr. B. D. Rampala...