Annual Bawa memorial lecture by Architect Anupama Kundoo
Architect Anupama Kundoo, whose work emphasizes human resources and community in architecture, will deliver the 21st Annual Geoffrey Bawa Memorial Lecture on Friday, August 9 at 6.30 pm at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, 100, Sri Lanka Padanama Mawatha, Independence Square, Colombo 7. Anupama Kundoo graduated from the University of Mumbai in 1989 and received [...]
Strong focus on diabetes
The news is chilling – diabetes is assuming epidemic proportions and Sri Lanka is one of the countries in the region that has a “very high” prevalence of Type 2 diabetes, particularly in urban and suburban areas. This is while Type 1 diabetes, commonly seen among children, is also on the rise. It is in [...]
Kosala Wickramanayake honoured with ‘The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette’
Ambassador of Japan to Sri Lanka Mizukoshi Hideaki conferred “The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette” on Kosala Rohana Wickramanayake, former President of the Lanka Japan Friendship Society and of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Sri Lanka, in recognition of his contribution to promoting friendly relations, mutual understanding [...]
If it bleeds, it leads: The staple of tabloid journalism
By Thalif Deen – UNITED NATIONS (IDN) – Tarzie Vittachi, a renowned Sri Lankan newspaper editor and one-time deputy executive director of the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF, once recounted the story of an African diplomat who sought his help to get coverage in the US media for his prime minister’s address to the General [...]
Artificial Intelligence and threat to national security
By Joseph S. Nye, Jr. ASPEN – Humans are a tool-making species, but can we control the tools we make? When Robert Oppenheimer and other physicists developed the first nuclear fission weapon in the 1940s, they worried that their invention might destroy humanity. Thus far, it has not, but controlling nuclear weapons has been a [...]
Behind the lens: Experience from the field
In an age of information overload, photojournalism stands as a beacon of authenticity. Join Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Jessica Rinaldi for an exploration of this captivating world at the hall Ruby of Hilton Colombo, on Friday, August 9, from 7-8 pm. Photojournalism possesses a power to reveal truths and realities that words alone cannot capture. “Behind [...]