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  • Aluthkade: Colombo’s Trendy Culinary Domain
    There is an old saying that tasty food needs no advertising. This is true. For those of you vibrant foodies, you will agree that the ‘street food’ at Aluthkade is gradually...
  • Traditions of a British Royal Funeral
    For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of kings - Shakespeare, Richard IIThe world solemnly mourns and remembers the great royal...
  • Nallur Kovil Festival Dazzles Northern Province
    The fragrance of incense overwhelmed the air. Jaffna was alive with renewed spiritual zeal, once again. The multitude of devotees was more than the previous two years. I saw...
  • Elvis Presley with his wife Priscilla
    Remembering the King of Rock ‘N’ Roll
    John Lennon once said: “Before Elvis there was nothing, after Elvis nothing was the same.” As a young adult in the 1940s, Sam Phillips became acutely aware that no genre of...
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  • Transforming Lives, Enriching Values through Drug Rehabilitation
    Rising trend in use of addictive drugs is worrisome and needs serious attention. Most common examples of drug use include alcohol, cannabis, opioids, nicotine, psycho stimulant drugs and...
  • Respect and Protect Our Women
    Every woman is unique and has equal rights. A woman represents a daughter, wife and mother. Women are the live wire of any family in terms of its unity and operation. The recent social media video of...
  • Michael Jackson: Yesterday, Today and Forever
    In August 1982, Michael Jackson began work with Quincy Jones on a new album at Westlake Studios in Los Angeles. The album would be entitled Thriller with a budget of about US$ 750,000 to produce, and...
  • Scenes from the movie Redeeming Love
    Redeeming Love in Troubled Times
    Redeeming Love (released January 2022) is based on a best-selling novel by Francine Rivers, which was inspired by the Old Testament book of Hosea (Bible). The novel, first released in 1991, has sold...
  • We are bound to protect our environment
    Ecosystems support all life on Earth. The healthier our ecosystems are, the healthier the planet - and its people. The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration aims to prevent, halt and reverse the...
  • The role of unbiased media in building a Nation
    Media has today become the voice of our society. Globally there are a variety of media platforms that have stimulated the thoughts of the younger generation and other sections of our society. Media...
  • Barbara Sansoni's Barefoot creations
    Barbara Sansoni Queen of Vibrant Colours
    Sri Lankan women have risen to great heights in diverse fields, bringing honour to their Motherland. These prudent and inspiring women had the long term vision, supplemented by relentless...
  • The 18 faces of mythological healing
    The cultural fabric of Sri Lanka has been colourfully woven with tradition and laced with ancient superstition. In this tapestry of ethno-religious ideology, we come across tales and legends. Some...
  • Abhayagiri Dagoba
    The ANCIENT Glory of Abhayagiri Viharaya
    The pre-colonial history of Sri Lanka has been constructed from a variety of textual sources, in particular, the Dipavamsa, Mahavamsa and Culavamsa. The kingdom of Anuradhapura can be called the...
  • Green Gardens for Food Sustainability
    In the post-Covid recovery stage, alongside the issues of uncertain climatic conditions, fruit and vegetable supplies are being challenged globally. A growing world population automatically increases...
  • Majestic tuskers of Sri Dalada Maligawa
    The Asian elephant is considered an auspicious animal and signifies good fortune. They were used as one of the four-fold armies (chariots, elephants, cavalry and infantry) throughout history. The...
  • Indian HAL Dhruv
    India has a fleet of diverse military aircraft, and the Indian Air Force is the fourth largest Air Force in the world. Aerospace power, defined as the ability to project power from the air and space...
  • The quadrangle with four stairways.
    Vijayarama: the Ancient Monastery of Anuradhapura
    Sri Lanka is embellished with beautiful Buddhist temples. As we know Anuradhapura is synonymous with ancient places of Buddhist worship, which have also drawn thousands of tourists.Anuradhapura is...
  • Preparing for salvage operations
    Ins Nireekshak: India's pride in the Deep Sea
    The Indian Navy has a modern fleet of vessels including a formidable aircraft carrier. Sri Lanka and India have sustained and cherished decades of defence cooperation. Many ships of the Indian Navy...
  • Inner sanctum at Gadaladeniya-The Reliquary at Gadaladeniya temple
    The Glory of Gadaladeniya & Lankathilaka Temples
    I have written previously about the Embekke Devalaya, which is one of the three prominent temples built during the Gampola era. The kings of Gampola did not control the entire country during their...