TV viewers, Down Under, especially those in Melbourne, had the opportunity of seeing some of the guys involved in Sri Lanka’s first ever telethon, ‘Arise Sri...
By Gamini Ranasinghe Chartered Engineer gamini_r@hotmail.com The building disaster that killed a family in Kandy, a few weeks ago, is surely the result of the callous...
By Praying Mantis A small nondescript looking boxed-in news item in the front page of The Island newspaper of 30th September 2020, under the headline, ‘Cabinet...
By Ryhana Raheem Professor Emeritus, Open University of Sri Lanka. Founder Director of the Post Graduate Institute of English, Open University of Sri Lanka October 4...
DON’T UNDERESTIMATE DONALD’S DEVIOUSNESS . . . by Selvam Canagaratna “An American presidential campaign resembles a forced march through enemy territory.” – Lewis Lapham, Imperial Masquerade...
News Flash Story Vijaya Chandrasoma The first of three scheduled presidential debates was held in Cleveland, Ohio on Tuesday, September 29, 2020, with Republican contender, incumbent...
Upali Wijewardena entered Royal Primary at the age of five years when A F De Saa Bandaranayake was Head Master. Some of his classmates who joined...
Frank Lee Woodward was born in Norfolk, England, in 1871, the third son of an Anglican clergyman. At school, and later at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge,...
Wondering what this brouhaha was about surgeons of the Lady Ridgeway Children’s Hospital, I asked a physician at the hospital what it was all about –...
Making a breakthrough in the study of leptospirosis, a bacterial infection transmitted from animals, a team of Sri Lankan researchers in a collaborative endeavour has discovered...