Last Sunday’s Island newspaper had my article titled Reading and the Classics. I continue that trend of thought and mention women authors who we of my generation read with such delight. Maybe I need ...

A little-known female author, G. Misihami’s spirit was very much present at a function held in Jaffna on January 18. A cultural centre in Jaffna was named after Thiruvalluvar, ...

Media vita inmorte sumus (Amid life, we are in death) by Jayantha Perera In the second week of March 202I, I returned from Colombo and Shyamala from New Delhi to Manila. We just learned about the ...

Old cases are revived, but arrests seen as witch-hunt and hurried moves; Govt. leaders react to Yoshitha’s release on bail, vow to pursue the cases; Yoshitha relates his remand ...

The dictator is overthrown and more than half the people rejoice. The dictator had filled the jails and emptied the treasury.

The return to Colombo after a four-day State visit to China appears to have placed President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in a ...

In his The Rout of Prabhakaran, Narayan Swamy has gone into elaborate detail about the genesis of the dispute and the build-up to the violence that was to engulf the island nation and spill out beyond ...

Maalu Maalu is a Sinhala phrase meaning ‘fish fish’, used as a cry by ... Weekly specials include Sri Lankan hoppers every Friday to Sunday; a mud crab night each Wednesday with four traditional ...

Sri Lankan opposition leader Sajith Premadasa has suffered several electoral setbacks in recent years. Social media users ...

They’ve also found links between following a Mediterranean-style diet and lower risks of insomnia symptoms, like trouble falling asleep or waking during the night, said Arman Arab, a research ...