The newborn making waves
The tiny trailblazer and his joyous parents are back home amidst these trying times. Not named yet, as Kshanikadevi Rupesinghe and Mevan Peiris wish to see his personality before bestowing a name and did not want to know the gender of their first baby before birth, he will however go down in the annals of [...]
Staying productive while working from home
The onset of COVID- 19 worldwide has seen an unprecedented disruption to our daily routine and as easy as it sounds, working from home can be challenging, as most of us have discovered. The commute to work is shaved off so you can get an early start to your day; maybe breakfast with your family [...]
Letters to the Editor
If we don’t look at post-COVID scenario, we as a country will fail Questions over 4% start up loans in spite of the Central Bank circular I’m writing this from my own experience. The Government announced 4% start up loans to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) to resume operations post COVID-19. As you may be [...]
APPRECIATIONS
A role model and trailblazer for many Nellie Patricia Fernando nee Perera Nellie was born on August 23,1926, to John and Elsie Perera of Alwis Place, Kotahena. She was the oldest of five siblings, all girls. The second sibling, two years younger than her died of Intractable Whooping Cough due to lack of antibiotics and [...]
A warning message from nature?
Nature is sending us a message, said Inger Andersen, the head of the UN’s Environment Programme this week. The catastrophic events of 2020 – the global coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing climate crisis which caused wildfires in Australia and locust attacks in Kenya signal that humanity was placing too many pressures on the natural world [...]
Taking on the challenge of Bomburu Ella waterfall as senior citizens
Retreating to the cool climes of Nuwara Eliya for three days in March, my family – wife Fareena, son Azlan and I joined my classmate and friend George and his family – wife Jayarani, son Dhanuska and daughter Dhanushika. Nuwara Eliya was preparing for the customary April season. Come Sunday morning, we decided to visit [...]
From my garden to my table
I sat down for my lunch. There were six items on the table – red Kekulu rice, of which I took one modest spoon, polos curry and bitter gourd sambol both that had come from my garden. In the morning hours I had harvested some spinach, Amu Miris and eggplants (brinjal) from my home garden [...]