Mirror Magazine
Young achiever from Mihinthale Central returns with Intel ISEF awards
Dinesh Kapuge (19) from Mihinthale Central College, won the first place award in the engineering: electrical and mechanical category and the second place award from the Ashtavadhani Vidwan Ambati Subbaraya Chetty (AVASC) Foundation at this year’s Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, a programme of Society for Science & the Public, held in Washington, USA. [...]
Using theatre and laughter to bring communities together
On the best days there are 17 kids from Chiraddikulam and 26 from Kakkaiyankulam but Nushelle de Silva is the one constant. In 2011, the young Princeton graduate convinced a university committee that she deserved a Building Bridges grant to support a year-long project in the north of Sri Lanka where the children from two [...]
Classic rock night this month
Rock band Angel Down is putting together a classic rock night that will revisit the back catalogs of Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Bad Company, Kansas, Aerosmith, Guns N Roses, Bon Jovi and at The Manchester on June 30. The concert is set to feature Lasith, Lahiru and Kusal of Angel Down, [...]
Searching the deep blue…
Darshana Jayawardena speaks to Smriti Daniel about his almost spiritual experience of coming face to face with the S.S Worcestershire When scanning the ocean floor with basic sonar equipment, usually all Darshana Jayawardena will see is a straight line on his screen. Then abruptly, the line rises sharply, its vertical ascent indicating that there is [...]
