Our land of smiles...
Salutations and warm wishes for a wonderful New Year dear reader to you and all who matter in your life, as what was once the tomorrow of 2012 has become our today, today. Sunday is generally a day to...
View ArticleHow well do you know your Grama Niladhari?...
Generally speaking there is a tendency amongst us Sri Lankan citizens to complain about the lack of efficiency in the public sector services and systems. It’s come to a point that it’s almost dogmatic....
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Between tourism and free worship...
I am a Sri Lankan Sinhala Buddhist. I know the millions who would openly subscribe to my national-ethno-religious classification will agree the temple of ‘the most sacred tooth relic’ (I for one do not...
View ArticleThank you Mr. Martin Page…
Are you a music fan? Is there a set of songs you feel speaks to you in terms of saying ‘who you are’? I guess when we hear a piece like that we feel something of our (inner) self has been understood by...
View ArticleGestures of courtesy and their value…
Do you say ‘thank you’ to the bus conductor? I am serious with my question though it may sound ridiculous from an everyday point of what marks the norm amongst us as citizens of Sri Lanka. I thought of...
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Beggary Inc.
Does charity beget merit to the giver or merely more ‘charity worthy’ cases in today’s Sri Lanka? The amount of rupees doled out to a grieving vagrant on a bus running either within a city or between...
View Article‘Political animalisation’ and facial transmutations
The latest work of fiction by veteran Sinhala writer Dr Gunadasa Amarasekara Roopantharanaya, hewath Somadevage sankranthiy; is an easy to read narrative running 104 pages, bringing out the socio...
View ArticleMemories of a village, voiced from the heart
The romantic ideal of an unspoilt village, pristine and preserved in the olden ways is fast becoming a nostalgic allusion in an era where a generation gap is becoming more and more undeniably...
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R. S. Wanasundera: a gentleman of integrity and conscience par excellence
I can still recall as fragments, the first ‘conversation’ I had with Justice Raja Sirimevan Wanasundera PC. The crux of it was that a coca cola TV advertisement (from the USA aired back in the 1980s)...
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