by Gamini Peiris This article is written to evoke and revive the memory of two outstanding gentlemen who were responsible for the establishment of Sevanagala sugar...
But China is not in a position to defend any of the eight bases it might set up in the next two to five years, the...
Remembering a great Thomian Teacher on his 56th death anniversary (Republishing an article which appeared in The Island 7/03/14) The excitement of “big school” was tangible....
(Excerpted from volume ii of the Sarath Amunugama autobiography) In fact it was Rajiv who made an attempt to break the logjam The Parathasarathy proposals had...
by Vijaya Chandrasoma (Written in February 2019) My old friend, Lalith ended his brief journey on this planet last week. He has, over the past 70+...
(Excerpted from the Merrill Fernando autobiography) Infrequently, my preoccupation with my personal business was disrupted by unexpected but welcome interruptions, in the form of foreign travel...
I first met T Malli in the basketball court of St Sebastian’s College. I was the coach yet did not know how to tell him politely...
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds” That pronouncement, translated from the Bhagavad Gita and quoted by the creator of the atom bomb as...
(Excerpted from Memories that linger: My Journey in the World of Disability by Padmani Mendis) Barbara McNamee was from Jamaica. She became my friend when we...
By Uditha Devapriya On Wednesday, August 9, the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute (LKI) unveiled its inaugural Foreign Policy Seminar. Titled “Changing Global Dynamics: Implications for Sri Lanka”,...