by Rajan Philips In his relatively salad days, President JR Jayewardene was known to be a superb after-dinner speaker and ballroom dancer. He was not so...
By Meera Srinivasan Early February, a group of saffron-clad Buddhist monks gathered near the Sri Lankan Parliament and burnt a copy of the 13th Amendment.They were...
by Kumar David Many people do not realise that in William Shakespeare’s (WS) plays the prose, the drama part, is actually verse, it is poetry and...
Excerpted from te authorized biography of Thilo Hoffmann by Douglas B. Ranasinghe (Continued from last week) Thilo continues: “The Ven. Bhikkhu Sumedha, a long-time friend who...
The illegitimate government led by Ranil Wickremesinghe continues to resort to State violence in suppressing peaceful protests with impunity. On March 8 the State used brutal...
Indian High Commissioner Gopal Baglay and Minister of Education, Dr. Susil Premajayantha formally dispatched a consignment of textbooks printed with Indian support at State Printing Corporation...
By Dr Nihal D. Amerasekera There are times I reflect on the endless twists and turns of my life’s fandango. As I age there is now...
By Ali Azeez HISTORY AND OWNERSHIP Date of First Registration: 31.10.1937 (manufactured in France around 15.8.1937) First owner: J.B. de Bonnetot of 690 Palmyrah Lodge, Colpetty,...
The funeral of Rev. Fr. Leon Babapulle OMI took place at the General Cemetery at Kanatta on Tuesday (7) with the participation of fellow priests, religious,...
Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda who is on an official visit to the State of Madhya Pradesh Friday met with the Governor of Madhya...
By Uditha Devapriya China has backed Sri Lanka’s debt plan. To be more specific, as Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, it has “given assurances that it will...
BY Geewananda Gunawardana, Ph.D. Two recent articles shed much light on the Peradeniya University and the campus life in the fifties and sixties. If those were...