There’s a time for everything
As we celebrate the National New Year today, Shaveen Jeewandara looks at the importance of the almanac in the lives of both the Sinhala and Tamil communities The erabadu flowers put on their best shade of red, and the kavum dance happily in the frying pan. Astrologers all around the country flip through the pages [...]
Sweet labour
By Rajitha Weerakoon Women, clad in colourful “cheeththa redde” rhythmically pounding rice in the “vangediya,” to be used as the base for avurudu delicacies is…
Appreciations
Let this incomparable statesman’s dream come true Dudley Senanayake As the country sinks more and more into a labyrinth from which there seems no escape,…
Letters to the Editor
Train of thought on disabled people’s right to accessibility The long weekend in March was a perfect opportunity to get away from noisy, overcrowded and…
Bring out those white beauties
A lesson in endurance and skill, this is what Kumudini Hettiarachchi learns from Jayasundera Mudiyanselage Susilawathi at a rural home in Thalahena as she turns…
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Amazing and frightening
Last month three young professionals from Sri Lanka became some of the select few to visit the Antarctic…
Avurudu traditions come but once a year
Kala Korner by Dee Cee As you read this, alut avurudda’ would have just dawned at the end…
The Koha, the Flute and the Arrow
The call of the Asian Koel is everywhere these days – real or recorded, writes Stephen Prins Kept…
A Grand venture
Top Property Group and L&A Publishing release Grand Hotel Nuwara Eliya, a coffee table book Top Property Group…
CFW: Rekindling pride in local labels
By Duvindi Illankoon When Colombo Fashion Week 2013 came to a close last Friday with Darshi Keerthisena, its…
A Common Man bags bronze at New York film festival
A Common Man, starring Sir Ben Kingsley and Ben Cross was the Bronze Medal winner at the New…
Achieving a great feat with her feet
Physically disabled from birth, and raised at the ‘Marc-Sri Saranaseva Nivahana’, a shelter for the poor and the…
Papal passage: All 265 of them
Smriti Daniel in conversation John Julius Norwich, the author of ‘The Popes: A History’ “It would have been…
Using English to learn Sinhala and Tamil
“SET,” as Michael Meyler notes, “is a book with a very short title, and a rather cumbersome subtitle:…
Island of a Thousand Mirrors shortlisted for Commonwealth Book Prize
Nayomi Munaweera’s Island of a Thousand Mirrors published by the Perera Hussein Publishing House has been shortlisted for…
Re-reading Ini Avan in the context of post-war realities
By Sheela Lal On March 27 the Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA) screened Asoka Handagama’s Ini Avan, with…
People and events
Rohana Seneviratne wins Saraswati Sanskrit Prize 2012 Rohana Seneviratne, lecturer in Sanskrit at the Department of Classical Languages…
Lankan plays vital role at inauguration of 105th Archbishop of Canterbury
By Quintus de Zylva Who was the 17-year-old dressed in an emerald green saree who played a vital…
125 years of service and sacrifice
SLA Regiment to be awarded Presidential colours at spectacular anniversary celebration The Commander in-chief of the Armed Forces,…
RASSL forums explore Sri Lankan Social Sciences and Humanities
By Janaka Perera The Sinhalese are genetically the most mixed in Sri Lanka according to current genetic research.…
The railway’s non-racial model
Every once in a while, I leave the old jalopy and my trusty rusty steed behind and take…