One of the first books read to me as a child by my parents, was a parable on land drawing from one of Leo Tolstoy’s short stories....

Thamby”in Tamil means younger brother. It is also used widely as a pet name for male kids in many Tamil households.

The passing away of Buddhist monk Baddegama Samitha Thera (1952-2021) would be felt more in the political scene than in the renounced world of saffron robed monks. This is largely because of his involvement in politics and also because of the fact th

Every child is a gift to the world. Besides the five external senses, the child has internal senses including memory, knowledge, wisdom, creativity, imagination, and innovative skills that need to be developed so that the child could become a respon

Have we failed in containing the COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka? There seems to be no letup in the third wave of the pandemic, which emerged after the Sinhala and Hindu New Year holidays.

Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), the main opposition of Parliament, appeared to be anxious following the announcement that former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will be sworn in as an MP filling the sole parliamentary seat secured by the United Nat

An Education Ministry official talking about a proposal in the pipeline to provide schoolchildren from grade 1 to 13 with an education entirely....

Sri Lanka had gone through a terror war for three decades and emerged victorious, yet when terrorists of a different kind struck on Easter Sunday....

Tulsa. Remember the name. May 31 and June 1. Remember the dates. There’s a year to remember: 1921. And there’s a thing that the USA would want US citizens and indeed the world to forget. Remember it. Racism.

Last week in our concluding paragraphs, we highlighted the fact that the bottomline in all these large scale calamities is that neither have officials or institutions ever been found responsible or held accountable,

Sri Lankans living in UK have made an urgent appeal to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to release the supply of 600,000 doses.....

SARS CoV-2 is a well-adopted human respiratory virus to bully the human community globally. It is useful to compare this virus....

Sri Lanka has two distinct monsoon seasons. Seasonal flooding due to extreme rainfall has become normal.

The ban on Chemical fertilizer and pesticide on April 22 has already started its impact on the farmers, not favourable, but adversely. Vegetable farmers in the up-country and paddy farmers in the North Central Province have started to express their f

World Oceans’ Day on June 8 this year is of particular significance to Sri Lanka because the theme this time is “Life and Livelihood”. Both life and livelihood had come under severe threat in the island when the container vessel X-Press Pearl c

The ‘MV X-press Pearl’, a Singaporean registered vessel, was around nine nautical miles outside the port –direction Negombo....

We have listened to the famous quote called “The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.” told by Edward Teller.

Tamil Nadu has a history of agitating when Tamils in Sri Lanka are discriminated against or undergo severe hardships. During the ethnic conflict scores of Tamil citizens fled to South India and most of them are still living in refugee camps under try

We today mark World Environment Day, a vital day for the whole world because if we do not take effective steps in the battle against climate change the death toll may far exceed the number of people who have died in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic with

Dept. of Geography, University of Colombo World Environment Day (WED) is one of the most widely celebrated global days that inspires the general public towards being environmentally conscious.

The fixation to global free market profits with COVID-19 pandemic control efforts became more evident with an international call to establish a “Global Health Threats Council” (GHTC) with a high profile senior global political leadership via a UN

June 2 marked 35 years after the brutal Aranthalawa bikku massacre. It’s a pity that the media has to highlight such a bloody incident that took place in 1987.

It is disheartening to note that the world powers have not got their priorities straight yet although the global population.....

The signing of US$ 200 million currency swap arrangement with Bangladesh has sparked a discussion both in local and regional contexts.

The week from May 27 onwards was significant for students of history in that several leaders of Western countries including former colonial countries....

The latest tragedy to befall Sri Lanka was that of the major fire on board the Singapore-registered vessel MV X-Press Pearl off the coast of Negombo. The vessel was carrying several containers of chemicals, cosmetics and 25 tons of Nitric Acid, which

What’s happening? That’s the question many ask. Then there are those who respond to the question or, as in certain cases, a question is not even necessary for comment. ‘Nothing’ is a common response/comment. To elaborate, ‘nothing is happen

Clashes between Israel and Hamas -the ruling party in Gaza (Part of Israeli occupied Palestine) began on May 6 this year, when Palestinians commenced....

This is the time of our collective hallucinations. Terrified friends last week were talking about how non-existent triple ticks....

There seems to be no letup in the surge in spread of COVID 19 pandemic, despite the travel restrictions commenced on May 21 being still on. Although the number of persons reported as being infected with coronavirus seems to have come down from around