By DR. P.G. Punchihewa Royal Asiatic Society In the 1950s, when we were undergraduates of the University of Ceylon, the then professor of history, a foreigner,...
Economic and social benefits of the agricultural sector, which includes cultivation of food crops and plantation crops, are well known to most of us. The value...
I just loved TILAK’S article in The Island of Nov.1.st where he tells us exactly what follies are being committed again and again by the sorriest lot of politicians...
At a time when calls for reforming the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act (MMDA) are getting stronger, we find a devious move to scuttle the reform...
The Public Service By I. P. C. MENDIS In the melee, the people of this country find themselves today, it is quite evident that there is...
By Dr UPUL WIJAYAWARDHANA “While the country is burning”: the caption for the front-page photograph in The Island of 29th October, displaying the antics of our...
The Island newspaper of 1ST Nov. 2021 published on the front page ‘Sabri likely to quit justice portfolio’, as without his knowledge Ven. Gnanasara Thera, a...
Residents of Negombo were enraged this morning Oct 31, to be woken at 4am by a maximum volume barrage of Catholic Masses broadcast from tannoy speakers...
MPs of Pohottuwa now have a habit of ridiculing their colleagues from other parties. They talk a lot about Pohottuwa and its so-called creator, Basil R....
My parents were not teachers. My father was a Chief Jailer in the Prisons Department and mother a housewife, and a strict disciplinarian. In our childhood,...