Sri Lankans today yearn for well educated, cultured and efficient public servants and politicians. The vast majority of those who elect politicians though literate, are prone to have short memories. As a result, we have a parliament full of politicia

The echo of frenzied cheering ebbing and flowing like a wave from the open pavilion of the Galle Esplanade fill my ears as if it were only yesterday.

Dr.Wickema Weerasooria, son of Queen’s Counsel NE Weerasooria, studied at Royal College, and entered the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya, having won Harvard Memorial Prize and the Governor General’s Prize. He graduated in Law from Peradeniya, wi

Sociology is a relatively new social science based on a strong European philosophical foundation. It is an academic discipline that takes a critical....

esterday (December 3, 2020), we published in a leading US health policy journal a major research study that we did to assess the impact of PCR....

Known to be one of the top five beaches in Sri Lanka, the Mawella beach in Tangalle is a two-kilometre stretch of an undisturbed marine environment surrounded by a Bay.

The International Relations Office organised the Opening Ceremony of the INNOTAL Talent Development and Co-Creation Lab under the patronage.....

Following last week’s announcement by Education Minister G.L. Peiris in Parliament on the Government’s decision to acquire the controversial Batticaloa Campus, the Auditor General had informed and issued certain directives to the Attorney General

The trilateral 4th National Security Adviser (NSA) level meeting on ‘Maritime Security Cooperation’, held on Saturday November 28 at Colombo Hotel Taj Samudra with the participation of Mr. Ajit Doval, National Security Adviser of India,

What a disaster it would have been had his parents decided they had the perfect family, a son and a daughter. No, they embraced the addition.....

A violent protest erupted in one of the country’s largest high security prisons on Sunday, as gunfire rang out and some parts of the prison set ablaze.

T’was a month before Christmas, And all through the town, People wore masks, That covered their frown.

As President Gotabaya Rajapaksa completes his first year in office, the Consumers Affairs Authority (CAA) has issued five gazettes on the sale of rice.

Contact tracing due to the COVID- 19 pandemic has led to privacy concerns. While this has become a global concern, unlike other countries, Sri Lanka has no law in place to protect privacy. The Data Protection Bill was presented to the p

You can’t escape Covid 19. Just when you’re beginning to feel complacent in your thin-walled cocoon (which the virus can penetrate), it builds its own cocoon around you. When things sta

For the very first time in Sri Lanka, the FactCheck team at Verité Research conducted the inaugural #BudgetCheck2021. The team carried out live fact checking on claims made by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa in his 2021 B

By the beginning of the 19th Century, when the British took over Ceylon from the Dutch, laissez-faire was being accepted as the ideal in Britain and Europe. It was based on free trade with the market determining economic decisions. Merca

Once again, emphatic declarations are being made that there are zero risks of new COVID-19 clusters, just as earlier there were declarations.....

It is with great sadness that I write this tribute to you. When we lose a loved one, we have to endure pain, grief, desolation and emptiness, in fact, a loss of a mother is irreparable and devastating no matter how young or old the children are and r

Nowhere in recent history have we come across a situation like this, where the whole world is controlled by an unseen virus.

A recent article about Susil Moonesinghe on his 90th birthday by my Aunt Sumi Moonesinghe, made me wish to share a few personal memories as a tribute to him.

Dhammika Attygalle, President, Ananda Dangalle, Vice President and Devapriya Hettiarachchi, Secretary represented the Automobile Association of Ceylon and met Transport Minister Gamini Lokuge at his office on 16th. November, 2020 and presented the fo

Lalith Athulathmudali was indefatigable in his quest for knowledge and was continuously opening windows for our youth to the modern world....

Sri Lanka’s indigenous Adivasi community—the Vedda people—have historically maintained a diet of kurakkan roti and game meat.

Media and the Government often don’t see eye to eye and this is applicable to most countries, be it democratic or not. Sri Lankan media platforms too have faced much censorship while many journalists also fell prey to draconian laws of yesteryear.

Sri Lankan born Dr. Dinesh Palipana was recently named as Queensland’s Australian for the year 2021. The state’s first quadriplegic medical graduate and medical intern, Dr. Palipana was honoured at a special ceremony held in Brisbane.

In light of the recent leopard deaths (11) this year, including that of a black leopard and other snaring incidents which grabbed much media.....

The ‘laws of nature’ emerged victorious last week. This was following a landmark judgment issued regarding the mass scale deforestation activities that took place at the Northern Sanctuary of Wilpattu National Park. Therefore, Reserve

“Isolation” has become a word we are used to hearing in the news. With the detection of patients from various areas, the current system in place is to ‘isolate’ the specific areas. But, what if that can be changed? What if there was som

Every year in November Ananda College organises an oration by an illustrious alumnus of Ananda College to commemorate and celebrate the life and work of an exceptional American who was instrumental in the founding of the College in 188