By Helasingha Bandara His editor once instructed Premakeerthi to compile factual information for an essay on Brigitte Bardot, a famous French actress, the sex symbol of...
By Rajitha Ratwatte I am told the Dalada Perehera is on in my hometown. I have some incredible memories and despite all the cruelty to elephants’...
By Uditha Devapriya After lunch one Friday last February, a few weeks before the Royal-Thomian, Lakshman Gunasekara, the ever genial, nondescript editor and journalist, called me...
Many years ago, I spoke to the Mercedes people in India and told them to stop using leather for their car seats. They didn’t ban it,...
By Uditha Devapriya The foreign policy followed by Sri Lanka in its first few years of independence was largely determined by two factors: its proximity to...
Cumaratunga Munidasa’s 133rd Birth Anniversary falls today To create a united, resolute and morally upright society By K. A. I. Kalyanaratne Consultant – Publications Postgraduate Institute...
A month ago I received distress calls from people in Mumbai that the Municipal Commissioner had suddenly swooped down on a 20-year-old feeding platform (chabutra) for...
“I was in Grade Four when Sunil Ariyaratne wrote ‘Sakura Mal Pipila’. That song first made me realise how abstract music could be. In later years,...
BY DR. D. CHANDRARATNA I am writing this as an addendum to Dr. Pethiyagoda’a enjoyable article, ‘Delight of Humour’ (14/7). In this dreadful time of a...
One of the silliest things on the internet is an international site called change.com. The owners have offices in a number of countries and the mandate...
