At first glance, “Uniquely Sri Lankan” might look like just another of that abundant crop of travel books on Sri Lanka.   

The indefatigable  Jayaratne Perera, President of the Elvis Presley Fan Club, has sent a brochure of the Jim Reeves Museum in Voxna, Sweden. 

I first met Rohan nearly 18 years ago at the chambers of our family dentist. We had both come without appointments and had to spend time. 

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe who met the old guards of the United National Party (UNP) in Biyagama, during an event held on....

The prevailing situation regarding dengue in Sri Lanka will definitely have an effect on Sri Lanka’s tourism industry. The island attracts.....

It’s visible that the city worst hit by dengue in the country is Negombo. Director General Health Services of Western Province Dr. Ahemed Fareed....

In Vaishnavee, Yashoda Wimaladharma does what Gamini Fonseka did more than 20 years ago in Loku Duwa: divert the story to an....

All three Choirs of Trinity College Kandy (Primary | Junior | Senior) Emerged All-Island Winners for the 3rd consecutive year at the....

The Senehasa Education Resource Research and Information Centre established with the main object of providing the opportunities....

I was listening to the radio “Corrupt specialist doctor got caught while taking bribes”. This story went viral on social media. The radio station...

Raising tobacco taxes is one of the most effective and cost-effective measures to reduce tobacco consumption and prevalence of....

Dengue is now centre stage in the Newspapers, Radio and on TV. However, the whole focus is on prevention – and rightly so....

Following the landslides and floods that occurred in May 2017, 15 out of 25 Districts were faced with “Cyclone Mora”. The cyclone affected approximately 630,000 persons in Sri Lanka. As many as 213 lives were lost. Several communities res

In a state sponsored ‘Tighten-your-belts’ economy in early 1970s, the privileged enjoyed all the luxuries while the poor masses were searching for eatables in the city’s garbage bins. The closed economy, marred by scarcities and und

Sri Lankan literature may not be well known around the world compared to its counterpart India. But international editors have now begun to take a keen interest in Sri Lankan writing. The latest effort to give prominence to the budding talent in Sri

With a history of over 125 years that lie behind the gates of Musaeus College-the oldest Buddhist girls school in the country- the halls of the school have been walked on by many a principal that helped bring the school to its standing glory today.&n

Richmond College, Galle, a premier educational institution in Sri Lanka with an unparalleled history, completes 203 years of incessant existence on 25th July 2017. Beginning as the ‘Galle School’ in 1814, it took a little more than six de

Seventy years ago, Australia’s first Commissioner to Ceylon, Charles Frost, arrived in Colombo. A year later, Ceylon chose Australia as home to its fourth diplomatic mission, signifying the importance Sri Lanka’s founding leaders placed o

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe last week directed officials to experiment with the building of small double storey houses in areas which are prone to natural disasters like floods. The Prime Minister made this observation at a meeting conducted

The loveliest scene in Nidhanaya is the only hopeful, life-affirming sequence from that entire movie: Willie Abeynayake, the tortured aristocrat, dancing with the woman he married to kill as a sacrifice.   

The Supreme Court suspended the dumping of garbage at Muthurajawela following an interim order issued on July 5. The....

It was in my teens that I first read Robert Pirsig’s “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” and came face-to-face....

Ceylon Tobacco Company PLC (“CTC”) wishes to clarify its position regarding the news article published in the Daily Mirror on June

When we were small, our minds were conditioned in such a way that as soon as the word ‘hero’ is mentioned, elegant figures wearing capes and fancy clothes swooping out of the sky and saving the day come to our minds. But what most of us

Mrs Marini Fernando, who taught us in Grade Eight, was the best English teacher I ever had. She had that ability to inspire passion in us, particularly those of us who took to her period less for her lessons than the intricate ways in which she got

Glyphosate is back in the spotlight. The herbicide and the active ingredient in globally used weed killers, was banned on June 11, 2015 owing to findings linking the chemical with kidney disease in Sri Lanka. In September 2016 Minister of Plantatio

Few are aware that thousands of new-born calves are slaughtered every day within hours of their birth in dairy farms in Australia, through NZ....

Dr. Tilokasundari Kariyawasam, the iconic Lady who skilfully decorated the field of education introducing modern scientific....

The curtains will rise on the first ever evening of singing, dancing and orchestral music starring the old girls of Ladies’ College, on July 29.....

D. B. Nihalsinha’s ‘Welikathara’ (desert) is back running in our cinemas in digital version. As a long time admirer of this ground-breaking film (both artistically and technically), I’m glad about this attempt to introduce a s