Continued from October 10 This story is hard to believe, but nevertheless true. It was the general election of 1947 and the results of the Akuressa...
“Paangshu” By Uditha Devapriya How Baba Nona sees her son, for what he is and what he does, drives much of the drama in Paangshu....
Compassion is an essentially part of being civilized. The human is just as savage today as he always was – and no amount of art and...
By Siri Ipalawatte – Canberra By the time I reached the Katunayaka airport at midnight I had been sleeping in the taxi for about 20 minutes....
(Continued from October 8) The stage had been constructed under a spreading huge mara tree and the candidate breathed fire from the stage that the rights...
What is Maya? Narada Muni wanted the answer so he meditated for decades until Vishnu appeared. “Come”, the god said, “Let us walk and I will...
There was a fabulously rich mudalali, who, in his time, was an institution in the South. He was not born with the proverbial silver spoon in...
By Uditha Devapriya In his travelogue Following the Equator, Mark Twain makes the following intriguing claim: “Tea-tasting is the great business in Ceylon, now. A passenger...
By Uditha Devapriya Continued from last week… The abolition of plantation slavery did not mark the end of plantations. Nor, for that matter, did it mark...
When Indian elephants meet African elephants, they recognise that they are both elephants. So do Indian tigers meeting Siberian ones. But I have great difficulty recognising...
