Recently, the NGage Goodvocacy and the Environmental Foundation Limited hosted their very first ‘Festival for Our Planet’ at the Good Market as an environmental awareness event to coincide with the worldwide youth climate strike that took place o

Public transportation in Sri Lanka is widespread that the majority of people prefer to make it their mode of travel. Apart from the people’s habit to travel in trains, they often choose the bus as a mode of transport. However, there has been critic

Philip Cooray called Delovak Athara the most personal film that Lester James Peries ever made, and it shows. From the milieu depicted in it to its choice of subject matter, it may well have been a “statement” in the same vein that Truffaut’s Th

Samuel Christian Friedrich Hahnemann, the founder of the homeopathic system of medicine, was born on April 10, 1755 at Meissen in Saxony, Germany. He studied first at the “elector’s school” of Meissen, and thereafter as a student of medicine at

Before we see whose poems appear in this volume, we should know something about the compilers. Dr Sigma Sathish is a friend of mine and she has sent a copy to me because I like poetry.

Shakespeare’s famous words All the world’s a stage. And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances. And one man in his time plays many parts remind me of this remarkable woman....

Internationally the World Autism Awareness Day is recognized on the 2nd of April every year. World Autism Day is one of the seven official health-specific UN Days that brings individual autism organizations all around the world....

The oldest rotary club in the country, the Rotary Club of Colombo, with the assistance of the Rotary Club of Kelaniya, recently conducted a successful health campaign for the residents in Kelaniya. They were supported by a skilled team of doctors and

We thank God everyday for blessing us with you as our amazing mom. However, time with you will never be enough, we will always wish for one more hug, one more laugh, but above all, for one more day! With your last breath the world around us has tumbl

Death has removed from our earthly scene my senior in the Anglican Church in Sri Lanka. Fr. Harold, as I called him in the recent past, began as a teacher at St. Paul’s School in Kandy when he was a lay person. In Kandy, he was known for his inter

On your birthday, only gift we can offer is the precious memories you left behind

If our father were alive, he would have celebrated his 100th birthday on April 12 this year. Unfortunately, he passed away on December 13, 1978 at the age of 59 due to a heart attack.

Pakistan is predominately an Islamic country and Sri Lanka, a Buddhist country in main. So, presumption of many is that there is no cultural nexus between the two countries. As if to dispel such presumption and to woo Sri Lanka, Pakistan....

When Kumari Jayawardene wrote and published Nobodies to Somebodies at the beginning of the millennium, there were howls of protests from two separate though interrelated camps. First and foremost, there were the descendants of the families....

Fiji’s Judiciary welcomed in another addition to its rank following the swearing in of High Court Judge Yohan Liyanage yesterday at the State House. Justice Yohan Liyanage is from Sri Lanka and....

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on April 1, 2019, between the Ministry of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine and the Kadijah Foundation’s Fight Cancer Team with plans to purchase Tomotherapy and LINAC...

Nowadays schoolchildren and university students pay more attention on innovations and are willing to develop novel things which can be used to solve current problems in our day-to-day lives. Our new education system also highly contributes....

A group of women artistes, graduates of the University of Visual and Performing Arts, featured their collaborative and inclusive annual arts exhibition for the 6th consecutive year to mark ‘International Women’s Day,’ on March 8, 2019 at the J.

After three decades Vidya Jothi Prof. Cyril Ponnamperuma who led the Moon Soil Analysis Laboratory at NASA, USA under the Apollo Space Mission was honoured with a Postage Stamp at the 2018 Annual Review sessions of the Institute of Fundamental Studie

Mahavidyala Mawatha is a main road which has light and heavy vehicles, containers, particularly Pettah bound buses, passing in hundreds every day. This road also leads to five government schools and is also a hardware commercial hub apart from being

TNA MP M.A. Sumanthiran’s statement to the Parliament made on the 22nd March is unconstitutional. He insisted the “Government” to implement clause 6 of the Geneva (UNHRC) resolution (30/1) or otherwise “we (they) will take steps to move Sri L

When the Kennels of the Sri Lanka Police Service is celebrating its seventieth year in existence, it would be a timely opportunity to remember Sir Richard Aluvihare who revolutionized the Police Service. It was in his time that Sri Lanka Kennels were

Here’s one you should probably avoid like the plague: Aluminum foil. Believe it or not, every time you use aluminum foil in the kitchen, it’s seriously harming your health.

Defensive driving requires one to ‘look-ahead’ both literally and metaphorically; in Cricketing parlance, it’s like a great batsman who sees the ball that much earlier than others less skilled to either score or defend and never be caught off-g

Our research suggests that more than 500,000 patients in Mount Lavinia and the suburbs are awaiting the quality service at all times Mount Lavinia is a residential area with mostly middle class communities. Our research indicates that the majority of

Marital infidelity, or assumption of it, isn’t a new theme to Sri Lankan cinema. The black and white era offers many examples of wives being treated unspeakably because their husbands imagined things. The wife was always a virtuous woman and the hu

In the history of Colombo University of Sri Lanka the first ever Coffee Table Book will be launched on April 7, 2019 at 11.30 am at the University of Colombo’s New Arts Theatre by the Alumni Unity of the 1960s of the University of Ceylon, Colombo

All human life, once born, has to reach its logical end, death. That eternal truth was taught to us by our eternal teacher, Gautama Buddha. Yet when it happens to your loved ones, it is difficult to bear. No person should compare the loss of his or h

Member of the Western Provincial Council Jayantha de Silva said dedication of the people was an integral part of the country’s development and meeting their requirements and pointing the accusing finger at others for the country’s ills would not

Jesus asked Simon Peter, ‘Simon son of John; do you love me more than others do’? ‘Yes, Lord, He answered, you know that I love you. Jesus said to him, ‘Take care of my lambs.’ Centuries later, Jesus asked the same question from his