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PLACES, PEOPLE & PASSIONS (3Ps) Part five Dr. Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena DPhil President – Chandi J. Associates Inc. Consulting, Canada chandij@sympatico.ca Profile Simon is the founder and Precedent Partner of ‘Simon & Associates’, a well-established corporate law firm. He was the first Managing Director of ‘Walkers Tours’ the leisure arm of John Keells and led […]

By Jehan Perera The situation in the country, particularly with regard to the economy and politics, can be described as stable but stagnant.  The economy is stable in that it has not experienced further collapse in comparison to the kind witnessed last year when international bankruptcy was admitted.  But the economy still continues to contract, […]

By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana There is no doubt, whatsoever that the 1983 July pogrom was one of the most shameful events in the recent history of Sri Lanka which irrevocably tarnished the image of the country. How it was viewed then by the foreign media formed the basis of two opinion pieces by Jayantha Somasundaram, […]

It takes a notable degree of effrontery to deny that a demolished building has been destroyed. Yet, this is what the controversial Mayor of Karachi, Murtaza Wahab Siddiqui, whose June 2023 election was tainted by accusations of fraud, had the impudence of stating after the demolition of Mari Mata Mandir, a historic 150-old Hindu temple […]

Monday 25th July 1983 began like just another day. But what we didn’t know was that it was to be the last day of an era. By mid-morning from my second-floor office in Fort I could see the city being put to the torch. Already my two sisters’ homes in the suburbs had been attacked […]

The death occurred on Thursday of Mr. Merrill. J. Fernando, 93, among the country’s leading business personalities and a self-made billionaire who earned for himself the reputation of ‘Teamaker’ by building his Dilmah brand, among the best known nationally owned brands of Ceylon tea. Fernando was uncompromising in his life-long battle to preserve the image […]

Excerpted from volume ii of the Sarath Amunugama autobiography UNESCO’s involvement with the Sri Lankan Cultural Triangle project was a milestone in our mutual relationship. It focused attention on the Sinhala cultural heritage, brought substantial funding from UN agencies to our culture sector, hastened the restoration of ancient monuments and conserved the visual heritage of […]

by Jagath C Savanadasa Tribute intends to shed light on how Piyadasa Sirisena became one of the leaders in mass communication, in the early part of the 20th century. Using communication, as a tool, he launched a long drawn out resistance against imperial rule. He was in a crux a countervailing force against the British […]

The Malaiyaha and Memory of the World 1823-2023 by Laleen Jayamanne Continued From Yesterday When Sivamohan was growing up in Jaffna in a Christian home (prior to the civil-war), her three sisters and mother listened to and also sang African-American Gospel music (what we then called Spirituals). She also said that her mother read poetry […]

Excerpted from volume ii of Sarath Amunugama autobiography I was lucky both as Permanent Secretary and a researcher in the field of family planning to spend time in the east coast which is one of the loveliest parts of Sri Lanka, with its pristine beaches and a large swath of blue sea. The Information department […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Former Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, who engineered a high profile project that culminated with Sri Lanka betraying her armed forces, at the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), in early Oct, 2015, received a warm welcome here, recently. The one-time South Korean Foreign Minister, served as the […]

Mr. Sivakumar Nadesan, the Managing Director of the Virakesari published by Express Newspapers, Chairman of the Sri Lanka Press Institute and the Press Complaints Commission of Sri Lanka received the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award from Her Excellency Droupadi Murmu, the President of India at the 17th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2023 Valedictory Session held on January […]