By Uditha Devapriya Thucydides does not take sides between the Athenians and the Spartans in his account of the Peloponnesian War. The most famous passage...
In 2013, India started using Neonicotinoid pesticides to protect a crop that Monsanto had promised the Indian farmer he would not have to use pesticides on....
Reviewed by prof. Ari Ariyaratne Saho (the Comrade) is a novel that deserves better attention from sophisticated readers. It is written by Ariyarathna Athugala, a Sri...
By Uditha Devapriya The Dornhorst Memorial Prize, the most sought after accolade at Royal College, is, curiously enough, named after an old boy who didn’t win...
While several States of India roil under the latest outbreak of Avian Influenza, the strategy of mass culling of poultry birds, to contain the spread, is...
by GEORGE BRAINE The e-mail, with the question “Are you a Ceylon Braine?”, arrived out of the blue when I lived in Hong Kong. The writer...
Culling chickens Picture Courtesy: Village Square By the time you read this, lakhs of chickens will have died of Avian Flu. Some will have died naturally....
By Uditha Devapriya The first generation of actors who made their way to the Sri Lankan film industry, hailed, for the most, from suburban, lower...
By K. A. I. Kalyanaratne Vice President, Hela Havula Senior Manager, Publications The Postgraduate Institute of Management University of Sri Jayewardenepura The need to regulate and...
That a vegan diet helps in reducing, and even removing diabetes and heart disease, is fairly well known. While generally higher in carbs, vegan diets are...