1952 premier stakes: How and why of the controversy over Dudley’s appointment
Today is the 111th birth anniversary of Sri Lanka’s second Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake By the Senanayake Foundation On March 22, 1952, D.S. Senanayake, the Father of the Nation and the First Prime Minister of Independent Ceylon (Sri Lanka), died in a tragic accident plunging the entire nation into a state of grief. His untimely [...]
Gods have made Lankans cricket mad but should not prolong national crisis
That old aphorism ‘Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make them mad’ which has come down from classical Greek times through past western civilisations to the present day, took a humorous twist in our mind when we peeked into a TV programme showing a cricket match between the touring Australian team and [...]
Maneka (Mickey) Wickremasinghe: Entrepreneur and artist
I first met Mickey over forty years ago with Esmond Wickremasinghe. They owned a small hotel near the beach in Passikudah which Esmond wickedly named ‘Sun and Fun’. They would travel a long distance over bad roads from Colombo to the Eastern Province to spend holidays on that fantastic shoreline. I led a research team [...]
Eight lessons from the Ukraine War
When Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his invasion of Ukraine on February 24, he envisaged a quick seizure of Kyiv and a change of government analogous to Soviet interventions in Budapest in 1956 and Prague in 1968. But it wasn’t to be. The war is still raging, and no one knows when or how it [...]