Moragahakanda Project Resettled villagers now have hope!

A survey had been carried out by a team from the Geology Department of the University of Peradeniya on the Moragahakanda Multipurpose Project. Members of the team are of the opinion that if the Kalu Ganga Project was first completed, it would have been an ideal project that would have 

Budding CMC candidate Duminda starts election campaign

Duminda Attygalle commenced his political career a few days ago and is set to contest the upcoming Local Government Elections from the UNP ticket. 

Silent engines behind agriculture

Year 2017 ended up with a huge loss of yield in rice cultivation when compared with the last few years. On the one hand, the reason was the heavy floods which occurred in agricultural areas. Another reason is the restrictions on the herbicides, pesticides and agricultural fertilizers that enhance the yield, as the 

Guide to Vertigo A steadying hand for a dizzying topic

Consultant ENT surgeon Dr. Chandra Jayasuriya recently co-authored a book on Vertigo with Senior Registrar at the National Hospital of Sri Lanka ENT Dr. Bimantha Perera. This article is a review of the book, ‘Guide to Vertigo’. 

Swami Swaroopananda to conduct lectures in Colombo

Swami Swaroopananda, Head of Chinmaya Mission Worldwide, will address devotees in Sri Lanka from January 11-14 during a scheduled  tour in the island. During his visit, Swami Swaroopananda will visit five Chinmaya centres in the country established in Kandy, Trincomalee, Ramboda, Jaffna and Colombo. 

On getting that “culture” right

Just the other day I came across an amazing comment on Facebook. The commenter had argued that Sri Lankans, to be specific Sinhala Buddhists, were too apathetic to bother with economic issues and were busier with racist issues. In other words, “keeping their strength relative to other ethnic groups” was our overriding concern. 

Embodiment of missionary education

As much as fee levying private missionary schools have not been able to bring up children with religious values, the late Rev. Kala Suri Marcelline Jayakody remains one, who went in search of values in his faith.  

Social life and survival strategies of the Sri Lankan Leopards

Sri Lankan leopards are at the apex of the food chain in this island. They not only feed on large herbivores like sambhurs and buffaloes but do on dozens of others both large and small, including reptiles and amphibians.

SUBODHI’S FR. MERVYN FERNANDO

Subodhi is Fr. Mervyn and Fr. Mervyn is Subodhi. The two are inseparably knit together in our memory. Subodhi was the brainchild of Fr. Mervyn, and he lived there ever since it was put up. The other day, he joined in the singing of Christmas carols at their Christmas get-together. The next morning, he was gone, passing away peacefully in his sleep.

Gothami Balika MV ‘95’ batch get together on Jan 7

It was just an ordinary day in 1987 and about 100 little girls from various backgrounds and various locations, arrived at the road with their parents and loved ones with just one goal; to be educated. 

Candid reflections on our art house films This is the first of four articles delving into the proble

Have our movies lost the power to entertain, to impress? Wherever I go and whoever I ask, the response is virtually the same: people don’t go to watch our films anymore. People go to sleep through them.

The sole resident of Dandenikumbura ‘survives’

Dandenikumbura in the Meemure Division in the district of Kandy could perhaps be the only village in Sri Lanka with a population of one man. It’s a village deserted by the people for want of minimum facilities in a human habitat.  

Replica of Leyland bus goes viral on social media

Social media was lately taken by storm with the newest invention of 25-year-old Randika Lakshan Abeydeera, a youth from Pathalangala in Embilipitiya, who designed a replica of a 54-seater Leyland bus -- 27cm in height and 110cm in length.

Are they really ‘campus rascals’ ?

A couple of weeks ago at a religious forum, the keynote speaker who arrived late, instead of apologizing to the audience went on to comment on the behavior of ‘Campus Rascals’ who staged a demonstration in the city that led to a severe traffic jam affecting his punctuality.  

Cruelty to journalists comes into focus

Enjoying impunity for crimes committed against journalists constitutes one of the main factors fuelling the cycle of violence against scribes, thus limiting them exercising their freedom to express and also weakens all other fundamental rights, UNESCO says.

Anoja Between the one and the other

Keli Madala, D. B. Nihalsinghe’s fourth film, was arguably also his weakest. It teeters between anger and hope, between idealism and cynicism, rather unstably, and it concentrates that conflict of opposites within the terse, tragic love story between the politician and his teenage paramour.

The importance of being mindful

While mindfulness has taken the west by storm with neuroscientists and psychiatrists recommending it to everyone across the globe. More than 2500 years ago Gautama Buddha espoused mindfulness 

Stepping into 2018 Shedding differences on the road to Reconciliation

One of the primary pledges of the Sirisena -Wickremasinghe Government before and after assuming power was to attain national reconciliation and peace among different entities. Peace and reconciliation 

Honesty and Exprertise The Crucial Needs in 2018

While Sri Lankans have welcomed 2018 with much hopes, the Daily Mirror spoke to experts in various fields, including areas such as politics, economics, law, health, education and environment, to find out what realities lie ahead during the new year.   

How Deforesting is Killing An Island's Natural Heritage

Changing ecosystems have become a tough challenge to face. While there’s a need to restrict global warming, increasing population figures and other external factors prevent these attempts. Although Sri Lanka has numerous national parks, forest reserves and sanctuaries- protected under various acts and ordinances- these areas 

Wishes for Mother Lanka for 2018

Year two thousand eighteen probably fruitful, eventful progress, Exemplary year adventurous eradicate menace hopefully impress, Amiable countrymen await miraculous powers sound governance 

A New Year of new hope, resolutions and expectations...

January 1st - the first day of the year is a day of traditional religious feast and an occasion for celebration. This time it is the dawn of the year two thousand and eighteen, the year during which all 

Duruthu Poya and the Concept of Merit Transfer

Duruthu Poya celebrates Buddha’s significant first visit to Sri Lanka two thousand five hundred years ago and nine months after his Enlightenment: it marks the country’s commencement of teachings of Buddhism.   

CHALLENGES TO MEET

We have commenced to step towards to complete another New Year, 2018. More than one and half decades of the new millennium swiftly expired. The dawn of the New Year brings numerous aspirations and inconceivable dreams in many hearts of the members in our human society.   

IESL recognition of bachelors of technology graduates of the university for affiliate engineer membe

“Highlights of the Chancellor’s address was the rapid development of the university, recognition of some of the Technology degree programmes by the IESL for Affiliate Engineer Member status and the need to conform to the standards expected by the upcoming Engineering Council for Engineering Practitioners.” 

‘If not now, when? If not us, who?’

Less than a third of young people express any interest in politics, according to an official survey. BBC reported that the survey has found 31% of 16 to 24-year-olds were fairly or very interested in the subject, compared with about half of those aged 55 and over. The analysis was based on research conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex for its UK-wide Understanding Society survey. When it comes to

The year at large

Maithripala Sirisena. Ranil Wickremesinghe. Mahinda Rajapaksa. Commissions and commissions. Interparty rivalries. Intraparty rivalries. Floods. Droughts. Cyclones. Donald Trump. Jerusalem. Russia. What will 2017 be most remembered for in Sri Lanka?

Christmas cacophony

Thank God for small mercies. Christmas has come and gone, but this year, the commercialized cacophony of Christmas was hardly heard. 

Srinivasa Ramanujan: Mathematical genius and the supernatural

Prof. G.H. Hardy of the Cambridge University went to Putney by a taxi to see his student who fell ill.

A melody for a milieu From Hubert to Clarence

As an art form, as a means of self-expression and articulation, music is largely self-referential. It has nothing outside itself; the standards and the yardsticks created for it, by various exogenous factors, are subsumed, sometimes eventually, almost always at once.