The Galle Literary Festival came to a close on Sunday, 17 Januar, a relaxed agenda, including a paced-out walk around the Galle Fort with Mrs. Carder marked the end of an action-packed week.
Sessions came to a close with a Literary Lunch at Jetwing Lighthouse hotel. All authors featured in this year’s festival were present at the final day’s lunch which also saw the inauguration of a regional prize for poetry. The Edward Lear Poetry Prize is open to poets of the SAARC nations and is to be announced at the Literary Festival next year.
With the Fairway Galle Lit Fest drawing to a close our photographers captured the following scenes over the last few days of the festival in Galle.
In the wake of the ‘outing’ of parliament Speaker Ashoka Ranwala with accusations that his PhD was fake, there has been a flurry of articles on fake degrees.
An eighteen member Presidential Task Force, including President’s secretary was appointed today to implement the ’Clean Sri Lanka’ initiative proposed by the government.
Under the government’s initiative of disposing of high end- luxury vehicles that impose a heavy burden of public funds, other state institutions are barred from purchasing them through state procurement procedure, according to a Treasury circular.
An investigation has been launched on the instructions of Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) Priyantha Weerasuriya into an incident where popular author Kasun Mahendra Heenatigala was arrested and allegedly mistreated by the Athurugiriya Police.
Mr. Gihan de Silva has been appointed as the new Chairman of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation, the Government Information Department announced.
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