By Eng. Thushara Dissanayake People are fond of recreational activities in rivers such as fishing, bathing and rafting. The country is blessed with a large number...
By sumanasiri liyanage E-mail: sumane_l@yahoo.com “We need a mechanism where money flows out to the economy directly and permanently.” -Kikuo Iwata Two prominent economists in Sri...
by Dr. Upul Wijayawardhana Oh! What a contrast it has been! As 2020 dawned we were dreaming of a new era. For the first time, we...
by Rajan Philips It was said of Prime Minister SWRD Bandaranaike that “it was a grim irony that he should be called upon, at the moment...
by Kumar David The trouble started with Mr Vinasithamby, our Tamil master in school, always attired in verti and saalvai and in a pair of slippers,...
Remembered Yesterdays by J. Godwin Perera Of those Burghers, Oh! Those Burghers, we can only dream In the Arts, in Sports, in Law , or the...
by Krishantha Prasad Cooray One year ago, so-called astrologers took to two television stations to tell the nation what to expect in 2020. A person going...
(Excerpted from Senior DIG Edward Gunawardena’s memoirs) It was indeed a privilege to meet and come to know Sir James Peter Obeysekera, a doyen of the...
‘WATCH OUT, FOLKS’, IS THE WARNING . . . by Selvam Canagaratna “A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a...
The controversy over the Gazette notification issued in April 2020 under the hand of the Director-General of Health Services mandating the disposal of all Covid-19 affected...