By D. L. Sirimanne A 100-year-old Veteran Aviator Going back in time, 1945 World War II ended suddenly with a big bang after Japanese cities Hiroshima...
Nothing is sweeter than a baby of any species; nothing angers us more than when a human baby is killed. The waste of a life, the...
The Hindu festival of lights, known as Deepavali or Diwali is the biggest and the brightest of all festivals. A festival marked by four days of...
By Uditha Devapriya On the way to Moratuwa from Piliyandala you cross the Bolgoda Bridge, where the path bifurcates between the road to Katubedda on your...
By Ransiri Menike Silva The above innocuous question can yield a variety of answers, for there is much on TV going on all day on all...
The India Pollution Control Board has categorised all industries based on a Pollution Index, which calculates the effect they have on water, air and land and...
Did I retire too soon? By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana We, septuagenarians, justifiably feel we are on top of the world. After all, we rule the world!...
The more meat eaters are pushed onto the back foot by the thousands of people turning vegan every day, the harder they are fighting back. Meat...
A brief account of US foreign policy By Uditha Devapriya Jenny Pearce titled her book on US intervention in Central America and the Caribbean “Under the...
By Ransiri Menike Silva Some years ago I had a six-month vacation in Australia with my son and family, which I found not only enjoyable but...