‘When we read, we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world’ Nelson Mandela.
When I saw on social media, the inspirational story of a man in Kegalle who runs a mobile library for...
Inordinate delays in implementing renewable energy projects, mostly because it is claimed that politicians and bureaucrats are demanding kickbacks from investors are costing the country billions of rupees. This is despite the government’s stated commitment and policy to make...
The government, troubled by a surfeit of issues, now has some more seemingly intractable ones to contend with. One of them has the potential to sour relations between the SLFP and the UNP further.
One may have expected the...
Sri Lanka’s cricket plunged to an all-time low when the team was unceremoniously dumped from the Asia Cup tournament in just three days and after two big defeats at the hands of Bangladesh and newcomers Afghanistan.
The heady night of...
On Tuesday 18th September, there was a report in the Daily Mirror newspaper, bottom right hand corner of page A4 quoting Dr. Jayampathy Wickramaratna, that the Steering Committee of the Constitutional Assembly will submit its report to the Assembly shortly. ...
As far numbers go, the good news for Sri Lanka is that there has been an overall decline in the number of people taking their lives. Of concern, are reports by Sumithrayo, which provides suicide intervention assistance amongst other...
Around March this year, some parents of students of Royal College Primary contacted the Ministry of Education regarding certain abusive situations their children were being subjected to in school. They were reaching out to the Ministry out of sheer...
