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Just over a year after its debut on stage, Indu Dharmasena’s 65th original play Love, Lies and Diamonds returns on September 7,8 and 9 at the Lionel Wendt to hold its audiences in fits of laughter as one man struggles to untangle the convoluted web of lies he has woven himself into. The play revolves [...]
Why Move Over, Mrs. Markham?
Ray Cooney earned his laurels as king of farce in the ’70s, and no one has managed to dethrone him so far. Jehan Bastians and Neidra Williams stand testimony to his magic. The two thespians from Silent Hands, in their young amateur days, fell under the spell of the farceur who weaved into his hilarious [...]
Getting the young ones involved in fostering peace
How can I help? – The catchphrase made famous by customer service assistants has been put into practice by Prashan De Visser for most of his life. Prashan is the founder of Sri Lanka Unites (SLU), a youth movement which has in the past 11 years grown to around 20,000 young people from different ethnicities [...]
Working towards a digital economy in Sri Lanka
The National Youth Social Innovation Challenge, a joint initiative between the Ministry of Telecommunication, Digital Infrastructure and Foreign Employment (MTDIFE) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) kicked off in June this year, together with the National Youth Services Council (NYSC) and the Information Communication Technology Agency (ICTA). UNDP’s tried and tested social innovation hackathon – [...]