Maybe Mangala Samaraweera knows what happened to the USD 10 million pledged! The committee appointed to review the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact has raised…
Sometimes we know right then and there and sometimes we recognize the point where decisive turns were taken only later. It happens to individuals, communities,…
‘Kuda Hora’ (Umbrella Thief) is a story that many have grown up with. It’s a fascinating tale of umbrella after umbrella being stolen to the…
‘He who acquired the undisturbed sovereignty of the three worlds by dint of sacrifice, austere fervor, sacred study, self-restraint, and valor, was nevertheless ruined for…
‘Taking a knee’ is a phrase that didn’t have currency not too long ago. Strange, in a sense, considering that the history of the world…
Perhaps the lady’s career plans are at stake! I wouldn’t blame anyone for believing that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact is dead. Indeed many…
‘Those mothers and these mothers.’ That would be a caption for a two-part visual of two sets of mothers, Tamil and Sinhala, grieving over the…
T. Greg Doucette, a US lawyer, and a mathematician named Jason Miller have compiled a list of 780 videos (as of June 16) showing police…
The Biddle. What’s that? And what has that got to do with sport? Legitimate questions. The Biddle came about at a time when countries such…
Wild life in every sense of the word — worth conserving, do you think? I remember the last time I visited the Dehiwala Zoo. It…
‘Compassionate Exemption’ is a term that has been used mostly in relation to cancer treatment. It refers to someone receiving a drug even though he/she…
An oft-quoted line from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s ‘Idylls of the King’ has King Arthur reflecting on change thus: ‘The old order changeth, yielding place to…
The website ‘www.educationworld.in’ lists the most barbaric and brutal prisons in the world. Three of the top twelve are located in the USA. Number three…
He was a fierce competitor, good student and generous in sharing his knowledge My friend Sarath Weerakoon makes life easier for me. He shares with…
The USA is in the news. Exposed. Exposed to those who believed the balderdash about that country being the greatest success story of democracy, freedom…
Marvan Atapattu — his story is a classic; he kept going. This is for parents. Children are their darlings. Every little act of progress is…
Workers of the world unite! We shall overcome! The people united (‘and armed,’ some interject) will never be defeated! Sí, se puede (‘Yes, we can,’…
රට. දේශය. දේශප්රේමය. දේශීයත්වය. ජාතිය. ජාතිකත්වය. ජාතිකවාදය. සමහරුන්ට මේවා නයාට අඳු කොළ වගේ. ඒ වුනාට එයාල සමහර ජාතිකත්වවලට, වර්ගවාදවලට සහ වර්ගවාදීන්ට, ජාතිකවාදවලට සහ ජාතිකවාදීන්ට, ආගම්…
Nation. National. Nationalism. Nationalist. The are words that make certain people react the way a cobra does when encountering andu leaves as the idiom goes.…
On the 25th of May, 2020, something terrible happened in Colombo. A set of police officers accosted a citizen who did not belong to the…
Colin Kaepernick knelt. He didn’t kill anyone. He was protesting. The San Francisco 49ers quarterback sat down in the third preseason game of the 2016…
naduth-baduth…. The 17th Amendment to the Constitution was passed in October 2001. It took more than a year for it to be implemented, perhaps because…
A few young men randomly met at the ‘Gemba’ Canteen of the Arts Faculty, University of Peradeniya. It was in the early 1990s. They had…
On the 8th of May, 2020 a new building was opened in a simple ceremony at the Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH). Built at a cost…
The Sri Lanka Press Institute, in concurrence with the Editors’ Guild of Sri Lanka, introduced guidelines for ethical journalism covering a wide range of subjects.…
The Sri Lanka Press Institute, in concurrence with the Editors’ Guild of Sri Lanka, introduced guidelines for ethical journalism covering a wide range of subjects.…
Way back in the early 1970s, Royal College had three left arm leg spinners. Incredibly, they all played together in certain matches. There was Samuel…
It’s so basic that one might even wonder what there is talk to about. Simply, one plays to one’s strength and attempts to exploit the…
\It would be unfair to ask people if they would like to go back to May 17, 2009 and tell us if they prefer that…
Many celebrated writers flocked to Spain in 1936 to defend the Spanish Republic. Among them was the poet W H Auden, who served as an…