The President’s Manifesto, “Saubagyamath Dekma”, reflected in many of his public pronouncements that environmental issues need to be given due consideration before any development projects are...
Some years back, plastic trash bins were sold at a nominal rate and most city and urban dwellers purchased them. The idea was for householders to...
By Kusum Wijetilleke (kusumw@gmail.com) Twitter: @kusumw The mainstream media’s obsession with the re-entry to Parliament of Ranil Wickremesinghe (RW) betrays an unsophisticated effort at constructing a...
By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana “Pipi gena aa malak paravee, suwanda loketa nodee nesuna”: This line from a song my wife sang in the ’60s over Radio...
Appreciation It was saddening to read the passing away of Mr. James H Lanerolle on 2nd June, a gentleman and an administrator, par excellence, with superior...
Everybody, it seems, is appalled by the attraction of politics as a haven for the “Intellectually challenged”. It is revealed that some 60 % or something,...
This is what Ted Bauman, a Senior Research Analyst at Banyan Hill had to say in Forbes magazine about Chinese present in Africa: “As a South...
By Dr UPUL WIJAYAWARDHANA Perhaps, I should have titled this “US Ambassador, please mind your business” as she seems to be the busybody, doing her utmost...
The writer has been following, with much interest, the contributions by various writers in relation to the proposal to abandon the use of artificial fertilisers and...
All of a sudden there has been a chorus of approvals by some MPs of the ruling party calling for Basil Rajapaksa, currently Special Representative of...