Crafted with love
It is a volume born of long and assiduous hours spent in small workshops, batik sheds, smithies, mills, wadu maduwas and sacred artisanal spaces. ‘Capturing the Handicrafts of Sri Lanka’ is a pictorial record of the crafts of our island culture, some of them now threatened with extinction. For the authors Inoka Dias and Mahesh [...]
Creating bonds within the country and beyond
It is a perennial delicacy, now emerging from the mist-shrouded hills, with a tantalising twist. From unique Ella, famous for its nine-arch bridge engineering feat which draws huge crowds both local and foreign, comes humble ‘MeeKiri’ different to what is sold in wayside kades in the south or shops and supermarkets in towns across the [...]
Yellow beauties that bloom from April to June
Cassia fistula Common English name: Indian Laburnum Family: Fabaceae (the bean family) (Sinhala name: Ehela; Tamil name: Thirukkondrai) This is a common, native tree of the dry and intermediate zones and is a sub-canopy tree of monsoon forests. It sheds its leaves during the dry season. The flowers are in lovely, pendulous bunches [...]
Letters to the Editor
Of D.A. Rajapaksa and D.M. Rajapaksa I refer to the piece, in the Sunday Times, entitled ‘Talk at the Café Spectator’, and sub-titled, ‘Major set-back for Rajapaksa’s in their home-base’. It says, “It all started with D.A. Rajapaksa who contested the first General Election in 1947”. This is not correct, it all started in 1936 [...]
APPRECIATIONS
Hit by the aviation bug at a young age, it was up, up, all the way for him Captain Chira Fernando Sri Lanka lost its most accomplished and versatile aviator on Friday, September 27. Hemendra Chirananda ‘Chira’ Fernando was born on October 22, 1946 to Hector Francis Campbell Fernando, an optician, and his wife Merlyn [...]
‘Always something new to learn’
It is often said that passion has a way of leading us to our true calling, and for Chamika Wickremasinghe, that couldn’t be more accurate. Chamika is the founder of the award-winning Canvas Interior Design Studio, which takes pride in its diverse portfolio having worked on various projects including residential, commercial, mixed-use developments and even [...]
After the storm
The month of September every year brings with it a great deal of conversation about suicide prevention. Our social media is flooded with information about risk factors, warning signs, restriction of means, etc, in the context of prevention and frequent reminders to reach out and seek help in connection with intervention. We are reminded that [...]
Be a part of the most happening bazaar of the season
The Santapaws Xmas Bazaar in aid of Rescue Animals Sri Lanka (RAS) will take place on December 1 at the Atrium Lobby of the Cinnamon Grand, with US Ambassador Julie Chung, an ardent animal lover herself as chief guest. The Bazaar with over 40 stalls just bursting with goodies will also have three complimentary stalls [...]