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Helping Sri Lankans see eye to eye
Each human being comes into this world for a very brief sojourn. Some...
2023-02-11 18:30:00 0
International Conference on Harmony and Reconciliation
The concept of ‘harmony’ of a nation has many vicissitudes and facets...
2023-02-04 18:30:00 0
Link between the banking system, innovation and rural development
Last week we featured seventy- eight-year- old Sangarapillai...
2023-01-07 18:30:00 0
Ensuring food and health security
Mid last week, 78-year-old Sangarapillai Naguleswaran of Jaffna, one...
2022-12-17 18:30:00 0
Meet the language focused peace-builders of Sri Lanka
As a contribution to national peace building, we feature below...
2022-12-17 18:30:00 0
Food security and decolonising Sri Lankan diet
Today, there is much panic about skyrocketing food prices and cases...
2022-12-03 18:30:00 0
ACBC takes Sri Lanka towards innovative renewable energy
Initiated by the All Ceylon Buddhist Congress (ACBC) in unison with...
2022-09-17 18:30:00 0
Indigenous food entrepreneurship
The All Ceylon Buddhist Congress (ACBC) under the direction of...
2022-08-27 18:30:00 0
Solar power can save Sri Lanka
Many ancient civilisations have had a heritage of connecting to the...
2022-08-06 18:30:00 0
Combatting food and medicine shortage in Sri Lanka
A segment of Sri Lanka’s traditional food, traditional nutrition and...
2022-06-11 18:30:00 0
“Law should reflect common sense”
In an attempt to understand through mass media, the relationship...
2022-05-14 18:30:00 0
Understanding scientific basis and history of Homeopathy
The following is an interview with Sri Lankan Homeopath Dr. Imthiaz...
2022-04-23 18:30:00 0
Dissecting the call for change
A commonsense based introspection would tell us that blaming...
2022-04-23 18:30:00 0
Use traditional knowledge to save Dollars
From agriculture/caring of the soil to engineering and medical...
2022-04-08 18:30:00 0
Traditional knowledge
The pulse of a nation beats through its traditional knowledge. This...
2022-03-27 18:30:00 0
Peace building through traditional knowledge
The linking of the authentic South of Sri Lanka with the North has...
2022-03-19 18:30:00 0
Building ties through traditional knowledge
A North-South exchange to facilitate an authentic link between the...
2022-03-05 18:30:00 0
Kulandai Shanmugalingam treasure of Lankan Tamil theatre
What are the qualities of a true artiste? And who is a ‘true’ artiste...
2022-02-19 18:30:00 0
Bringing together Tamil and Sinhala Diaspora
Let us focus on the issue of the Sri Lankan Diaspora; Sri Lankan...
2022-02-19 18:30:00 0
Northern entrepreneurship for national unity
We focus in this article on the business investment and...
2022-01-29 18:30:00 0
Uniting Sri Lanka through entrepreneurship
The Jaffna Trade Fair for the year 2022 concludes today, having...
2022-01-22 18:30:00 0
Traditional knowledge in Lankan peace building
The following article is a part of a series that is a follow up to...
2021-12-25 18:30:00 0
Exploring potential for Northern prosperity and national unity
Sasikumar Subadra is 13-years-old. She lives in Killinochchi. She has...
2021-12-25 18:30:00 0
Rural food heritage entrepreneurship
This is part of a series to feature entrepreneurship that is...
2021-12-25 18:30:00 0
Traditional knowledge for unity and nation building
The article below is a follow-up to the talk on Intangible Cultural...
2021-12-04 18:30:00 0
Are we Sri Lankans or tourists?
On February 4, 1948, the British formally ended their colonial...
2021-11-06 18:30:00 0
Look beyond Covid-19 vaccines to indigenous knowledge
We are now in the throes of euphoria by vaccine makers and there are...
2021-10-30 18:30:00 0
Traditional medicine treatment centre for Covid-19
The Sinhala Weda Uruma Baraya, a collective of Sri Lankan...
2021-09-25 18:30:00 0
Is there a Geneva crisis?
The 76th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) will commence in...
2021-09-11 18:30:00 0
Lankan medical heritage to stop Covid-19 deaths
What is the use of our national heritage (Urumaya) – our intangible...
2021-09-04 18:30:00 0
Media must play a greater role in promoting Indigenous Medicine – Minister Sisira Jayakody
The following is an interview with State Minister of Indigenous...
2021-09-04 18:30:00 0
Sri Lanka faced epidemics with traditional medicines – Dr. Danister Perera
Following is an interview with Ayurvedic expert, Cultural...
2021-08-28 18:30:00 0
Controlling Covid-19 like a common flu
Singapore’s Covid-19 multi-ministry taskforce last week, on June 18,...
2021-08-28 18:30:00 0
Honesty, the fundamental necessity for success as an entrepreneur- Dr. Premasiri Gamage
This week we feature an interview with Dr. Premasiri Gamage PhD, MBA...
2021-08-14 18:30:00 0
Fostering traditional spoken poetry
The ability to unite Sri Lanka with its vast traditional knowledge...
2021-08-07 18:30:00 0
A Patriot speaks
This article and interview is part of a series initiated to...
2021-07-24 18:30:00 0
The chef who cultivates his own plants
In the Manana village in Horawala, Welithenna, some five kilometres...
2021-07-24 18:30:00 0
Organic agriculture, the only way out
Sri Lanka made a decision recently to revert to its organic heritage...
2021-07-17 18:30:00 0
Reviving traditional knowledge
For anyone keenly observing a discussion based on public events...
2021-07-17 18:30:00 0
Agrarian products for export
Last week this writer focused on the link between national intangible...
2021-07-10 18:30:00 0
Fancy names of viruses should not scare us– Traditional Physician D. D. Hettiarachchi
Traditional Physician D. D. Hettiarachchci last Tuesday took part in...
2021-07-10 18:30:00 0
Controlling Covid-19 like a common flu
Singapore’s Covid-19 multi-ministry task force last week, on June, 18...
2021-07-03 18:30:00 0
Humanistic policies, key to reconciliation
This is the first segment of interviews with Sri Lankan Tamils...
2021-06-26 18:30:00 0
National heritage, health and national security
National health, heritage and national security are not three...
2021-06-26 18:30:00 0
Ignite indigenous emotional bond
What is indigenous cannot be kept alive generation after generation...
2021-06-19 18:30:00 0
Nutritionalising the soil
This article is part of a new series by the Sunday Observer on...
2021-06-11 18:30:00 0
Need to eliminate fear psychosis vital – Dr. Thanabalsingam Gadambanathan
Below is an interview with Dr. Thanabalsingam Gadambanathan, senior...
2021-06-04 18:30:00 0
Indigenous medical system for Covid-19
With the Ministry of Health on May 23 deciding to convert 50...
2021-05-29 18:30:00 0
New Army in Covid-19 battle
This article will attempt to juxtapose the challenge of defeating...
2021-05-13 18:30:00 0
Give us a chance to tell the truth – former LTTEer
Forty-four-year-old Naguleswarakumar Subothini of Pooneri, Jaffna, is...
2021-05-09 18:30:00 0

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