Poojas to end anti-democracy activities
United National Party organisers held Bodhi poojas islandwide to invoke blessings on the party and its leaders and to bring an early end to what they describe as anti-democracy trends in present day politics. Here the UNP’s Borella electorate chief organiser Jayantha de Silva taking part in a Bodhi pooja pinkama at Borella Pothgul Viharaya. [...]
Old Weseleyite SC, Capri life membership for veteran motor sports star Sinnathuray
The annual general meeting of the Old Wesleyite Sports Club was held recently. The meeting was chaired by Farman Cassim, who was reelected for the ensuring year as the president of the club. At this meeting Ranil Thilakaratne was reelected as honorary Secretary. Five old Wesleyites were elected as honorary life members. They are L.C.R. [...]
After the mid-term polls, what now for America?
NEW YORK – At least it wasn’t a disaster. If the Democrats had failed to secure a majority in the US House of Representatives, President Donald Trump would have felt almighty, with all the dire consequences that would entail. But the Republicans still control the Senate, and that means that the judiciary, including the Supreme [...]
Obliteration of the Rajapaksa decade is ominous
The often cited quote of a former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli: ‘Lies, damn lies and statistics’ kept coming to our minds during the past two weeks when ‘truth’ became a casualty in this pious isle, where a great many take vows to abide by the Fourth Precept of the Panchaseela — morning and night. [...]
Multifaceted works of father of Sri Lanka’s post-graduate medicinal studies
To begin at the very beginning, Don Robert Seneviratne, qualified as a doctor in the Ceylon Medical College in 1887, married Laura Gunawardene and raised three children — Irangani, Keerthi Nissanka and Nihal. Irangani married Engineer Athukorala, nurtured children, including a first class engineer who specialised in Artificial Intelligence. Keerthi Nissanka blossomed into the most [...]
Remembering Rex de silva
Three years have passed by since the death of Rex de Silva, a doyen of journalism and an editor who led by example. Starting his career in the early 1960s at the Weekend – the Sunday tabloid of the now defunct Independent Newspapers Limited – Rex worked with commitment to turn it into the most [...]