By Anam Hussain The 78-year-old former cricketer Intikhab Alam is one man who has not been fazed by the recent Covid-19 lockdowns and quarantines. He recalls...
36th Anniversary of Sri Lanka’s first ever Test match at Lord’s – Part 2 by Rohan Wijeyaratna By now it was clear Gower and the selectors...
36th Anniversary of Sri Lanka’s first ever Test match at Lord’s – Part 1 by Rohan Wijeyaratna “We’ve actually come here” said the middle-aged man seated...
by Malinda Seneviratne Consolation prizes there will always be. All it takes is a poker face, ability to cherry-pick and a veneer of analytical sophistication. Well,...
by Kumar David It has been a constant if annoying refrain of this column that there are powerful class, political, military, cultural and racial-religious forces pushing...
By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana ‘RIP, UNP’? When I wrote a piece, under this title, way back in 2013, I was sincerely hoping it would never happen,...
By Kirthi Tennakone The dwellers of the Japanese city Hiroshima resorted to their routine on 6th August 1945. That day the morning sky had been clear...
Nikini Full Moon Poya Day falls today by Mervyn Samarakoon ‘ Thasma thiha the Bahiya, ditte dittadhammang hothu ‘ Wisdom finds its sublime splendour in a...
Same-ingredient ice-creams, but two different toppings by Kumar David Outside the Tamil areas there are just three alternatives to choose from – the government (SLPP), the...
By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana “It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair” we had everything before us, we had nothing before us”....