By Dr Channa Ratnatunga Having been a victim of a disastrous stroke five years ago, I am reasonably well enough, that I can pen this ‘piece’...
To produce one kilogram of beef requires 25 kilos of grain to feed the animal and roughly 15,000 litres of water. Pigs and goats are almost...
By Ishara Wijesinghe Uva Wellassa University The map of Sri Lanka shows a large number of blue colour reservoirs and channels against a greenish background. This...
Reminiscences upon turning 100: The comprehensive and interesting article written by Capt. Elmo Jayawardena in The Island newspaper of 06 October 2020 under the title, ‘First...
Notes on culture: By Uditha Devapriya Sir Chittampalam Gardiner was a man to be reckoned with. With a sure eye for what would work and what...
When I was growing up in army cantonments, meat was on our table every day. It was taken for granted that military men ate meat because...
Book Review: By P G Punchihewa and Mallika Karunaratne ISBN No: 978-955-54441-1-8: 186 pages: Price Rs 360. Reviewer: Jolly Somasundram Hinduism and Buddhism, the world’s oldest...
By Uditha Devapriya The Many Faces of the Kandyan Kingdom (1591-1765) by Gananath Obeyesekere Perera-Hussein, 2020, 200 pp., Rs. 1,200 In 1602, the year of the...
The legacy of milk drinking has not come to us from Krishna or the Vedas – nowhere in any of sacred texts does anyone drink milk...
By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana “I was born in the wagon of a travelling showMy mama had to dance for the money they throwPapa would do whatever...
