“The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.” Pierre...
by Vijaya Chandrasoma Christ Church has, through the ages, been a political college, having produced 13 British prime ministers, the highest number by any college in...
My father was the first in his family, and my mother’s, to foretell Mahinda Rajapaksa’s rise to power in the 1990s. At the time MR was...
By Sanjeewa Jayaweera For quite some time, experts in economics and finance not associated with any political party have been raising the red flag about the...
by Rajan Philips Professor Kumar David will be turning 80 later this week, on July 29. He is most familiar to readers of the Sunday Island...
Excerpted from Sarath Amunugama’s Kohomba Kanakariya We end this essay (on some of the country’s finest Kandyan dancers), fittingly I think, with Nittawela Gunaya whom De...
Excerpted from Senior DIG Merril Gunaratne’s “Perils of a profession” I rode into storms and tempests in Kurunegala from mid-1978. What happened in Kelaniya paled into...
