The bigger thing is to keep matchstick in box
It is easy to see ominous signs where there are none. Molehills, after all, are frequently made into mountains. On the other hand, if atom can be made into bomb, we must acknowledge that society is...
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Carlo’s lesson
Human beings are frail. They err. Sometime the transgressions are deliberate. There are times also when poor judgment, lack of adequate information, deductive poverty, emotion and arrogance result in...
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The thinking and making of Maha Samayama
On the 31st of January, 2013 and on the 1stand 2nd of February, a unique theater production will unfold at the Nelum Pokuna, Colombo 7. ‘Maha Samayama’ is special not just because of a spectacular...
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There are Big Matches and 'Big' Matches
March is ‘Big Match’ time in Sri Lanka. ‘Big Match’ as in cricket between rival schools, i.e. rivalries on account of long standing cricket encounters that mark the end and highlight of the season for...
View ArticleAlistair Burt has spoken, we hear
It is all about the moral high ground British Under Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Alistair Burt has spoken. He has spoken for Britain, a country he describes as ‘a candid friend of...
View ArticleNavi Pillay rides again
Many, many years ago a Sri Lankan cricketer who was more than a tad naughty had been caught napping by his team mates while on tour. The cricketer had brought a lady into his hotel room. His team...
View ArticleThilini Nimesha lifts the nation
Almost all newspapers on February 2nd 2013 headlined the remarkable and coincidental story of students from the same school achieving the best A/L results in the various streams. Three girls from Devi...
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Freedom is a moving target
President Mahinda Rajapaksa in his Independence Day speech in Trincomalee yesterday outlining the immense suffering that Sri Lanka and Sri Lankans had to endure in securing freedom observed that...
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Tenderness will not be incarcerated
‘Independence Day’ is made for photographs. Like other ‘days’. The Poyas, especially Poson and Vesak, for example. We see the same pictures every year. Head of State addressing the nation is a...
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Miyesi Lama Tharaka a ‘different reality’ show
Two years ago, at a small house off a small lane in a relatively small town called Battaramulla three young people launched an exercise to hone musical talent and related sensitivities of little...
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This way to the guillotine, ladies and gentlemen, do not be shy…
D.M. Samanchandra, A.M. Hemananda and J.Y. Kamalendra were names known only to their near and dear, and perhaps those wronged by them. They have certain things in common. They are all inmates of...
View ArticleIndia is our ‘friend’, right?
It was not the first time that Sri Lanka and Sri Lankans have been treated shabbily in India and by Indians. Friday’s vandalizing of an office of the Bank of Ceylon in Tamil Nadu by pro-LTTE elements...
View ArticleA cause for grave concern
The discovery of a mass grave in Matale has elicited horror in certain circles. It is no doubt a horrifying discovery. The horror is such that it is also natural for people to ask questions and...
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Romesh Weerawardena: Sri Lanka’s first International Master
It was way back in 1980 that Sri Lanka got her first Internationally rated chess player. L.C. Goonetilleke, then an undergraduate at Colombo University did well enough in the first Rating Tournament...
View ArticleLeave DIG Latheef alone!
About a year ago, a highly respected police officer, previously attached to the STF but at the time the Officer in Charge of the Crimes Division of the Wellawaya Police, died under tragic and...
View ArticleAre private hospitals holy cows?
A little child, Buddhini Kaushalya Ratnayake (5) died under strange circumstances at the Nawaloka Hospital. The child was admitted to hospital on January 31. The child’s parents blame hospital...
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Dr. Rajeewa Jayasinghe: quiet, unassuming and so very silent now
In the university, especially in the first and second years, ‘seniority’ matters. Rajeewa Jayasinghe was a year junior. He towered over the rest of his batch at Dumbara Campus, University of...
View ArticleBalachandran’s killers (the long-list)
It is claimed that there is new footage about terrorist leader Prabhakaran’s younger son’s last days. There’s nothing ‘new’ though. A photograph of the 12 year old Balachandran ‘surfaced’ just before...
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Little one, sleep now; tomorrow you will rise
[A note on Balachandran, younger son of Velupillai Prabhakaran] There are those who use Balachandran’s death for political purposes. We need not go into that very long list of names. Then there is...
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Remembering Vijaya 25 years later
When the United Socialist Alliance (USA) was formed in the late 1980s, it was yet another Left political formation but with a difference. The color was no longer red. It was red plus purple. The old...
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