Story of five Generals
Can you believe it, five Majors General and an Air Vice Marshall to add to it, from one same school at the same time? And add to it two Brigadiers, too! Isn’t that a great achievement? Yes. It so happened at Dhamaraja College, Kandy, in present times. This was highlighted the other day when the [...]
The language of conflict
NEW DELHI – I was having lunch in an Ithaca restaurant with my mother-in-law, who was visiting from India, when the Chinese waitress serving us asked her where she came from. “Kolhapur,” my mother-in-law replied, referring to the small town in Maharashtra where she was born. Much to my surprise, the waitress looked overjoyed. “I [...]
National sovereignty: Whose sovereignty?
Some Sri Lankans went into a nationalistic frenzy last month risking the rupture of their blood vessels over the alleged threat to Sri Lankan sovereignty. Having observed the alleged loss, sale and barter of national sovereignty since the times of Independence, on innumerable occasions, this writer feels somewhat sceptical when alarm bells are rung furiously [...]
Kollupitiya Lions get new president
The Lions Club of Kollupitiya elected its new office bearers recently. They are: President Lion Marian J. Rodrigo Candappa, Club Secretary : Lion Dayani Kummarapperuma, MAF, Membership Development Chairperson: Lion Rajah Sinnathuray and Director: Lion K. Jegatheesan. Picture shows Past-Council Chairman Lion Marcella Silva MJF installing new President Candappa. Also in the picture are Past [...]
Harnessing the power of the mind through hypnosis
Hypnosis is a mind boggling subject for most of us as there is a gray area in society regarding the subject knowledge. It is also understood that using hypnotic inductions one may be able to get anything done using a subject human. Basically you could brainwash a person to do anything and everything. This is [...]