‘The boss has said it loud and clear that he will contest a second time! Now the other side (opposition) would have to nominate…
An Army-run vaccination center Political commentary is easy. Good political commentary is rare. Think of a jigsaw puzzle. A tough one, not the one…
A very wise man, then an undergraduate at the University of Peradeniya, once said that there are no wrongdoers in this world — everyone…
මහින්ද ප්රසාද් මස්ඉඹුල ගේ ‘සෙන්කොට්ටන්’ නවකතාවේ පරිවර්තනයට එච්. ඒ.අයි. ගුණතිලක සම්මානය ලැබීමෙන් පසු ‘අනිද්දා’ පුවත්පතේ කර්තෘ මා මිත්ර ජනරංජන විසින් කරන ලද සාකච්ඡාව එම…
Dr Diyanath Samarasinghe, speaking on ‘How the [medical] profession can help us balance work and life issues,’ at an event organized by the Sri…
In an ideal world, or a flat world if you will (where liberty, equality and fraternity are affirmed in word and deed at every turn),…
Tulsa. Remember the name. May 31 and June 1. Remember the dates. There’s a year to remember: 1921. And there’s a thing that the…
What’s happening? That’s the question many ask. Then there are those who respond to the question or, as in certain cases, a question is not…
There are things to talk about today. We could discuss the bipartisan House Resolution introduced by US Congresswoman Deborah Ross on Sri Lanka. It…
Twelve years ago, almost to the day, the Sri Lankan security forces brought an end to a three decades long struggle against terrorism. Against the…
We had the first wave. The second. Now a third. And, as is typical of a capitalist world order, crises (or waves) are a bit…
Vegetables grown at Mihimandala in Welikandagama are free of pesticides and other agricultural chemicals [see Dr Prasanna Cooray’s article ‘Overcoming the challenges of organic farming’…
Lockdown. Isolation. Quarantine. Wave. Social. Spread. Cluster. These are not new words. They are however words that have acquired fresh currency courtesy Covid-19. And,…
Subramanyam Jaishankar, India’s External Affairs Minister, being a politician has made a political statement. He would know, as any Indian politician would, the temper…
Geneva. That’s a city. Heard of it? It was in the news folks. Well, ‘was’ means ‘past tense.’ Make no mistake though, it will…
This is a story related to me by my friend and founder CEO of Rivira Newspapers (Pvt) Ltd, Krishantha Cooray. Apparently he had, a…
There’s talk of provincial council elections. Various parties or rather their leaderships have instructed the respective ranks and files to get ready. A good…
Did you just google ‘National Endowment for Vexatious Interference’? If so, you would be disappointed. There’s no such thing. This is not because no…
Around 20 years ago, a young politician with nationalist pretensions made an interesting observation (in Sinhala), the gist of which is as follows: ‘There is…
The United Kingdom, it is reported, has rejected Sri Lanka’s request for the disclosure of wartime dispatches from its High Commission in Colombo. Sri…
Regular readers of this column will no doubt have noticed that I draw heavily from cricket and chess. The pieces, I hope, have application-value…
Pritvi Shaw has played in just five tests, scoring 339 runs including a century and two fifties at an average of 42.37. The Indian…
Revolutionaries, self-styled or otherwise, are hard to imagine as old people, the exception of course being Fidel Castro. Castro grew old with a Cuban…
Unclear. Untold. Unfair. These are words that one can reasonably expect in any decent conversation or review of the recent UN Human Rights Council…
The older generation of chess players would remember two individuals with the same name, Sarath. The younger players may have heard or may not.…