HelpAge elders celebrate Christmas
Traditionally various gifts including clothes, garments and sweets are gifted to children by well-wishers and loved ones on the Christmas day; HelpAge Sri Lanka (HASL) conducted a different kind of ceremony by distributing clothes, gifts and sweets to underprivileged elderly citizens at the H P Gooneratne HelpAge Elders’ Day Care Centre at Borupana, Ratmalana. The [...]
Lanka’s Mizra wins Asia’s Innovative Henna Artist award
By Tissa Kotinkaduwa, Jaela correspondent A Sri Lankan has won Asia’s Innovative Thinker in Henna Artistry award for 2023. Mizra Sarap, 28, received her award at the Asia Leadership Awards 2023 ceremony held recently at Breeze Hotel in Tiruchi, Tamil Nadu. An old pupil of Wattala Lyceum, Mizra is a commerce graduate with a post-graduate qualification [...]
According to the Galtieri Theory…
As we near the end of 2023 and I look back on the events of this past year, I am reminded of the truth of what the 19th-century French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr wisely wrote: ‘plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose’ – which in English means that the more things change, the more [...]
2023: A year of war and little peace
By Richard Haass NEW YORK – The advantage historians have over journalists is that the passage of time offers them a perspective not available to those with immediate deadlines. But the year is about to end, which constitutes a firm deadline if the goal is to put 2023 into perspective. “Instant history” may well be [...]