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By Frances Bulathsinghala
Merrill Fernando, the giant of Pure Ceylon Tea who single handedly created a national dream so much bigger than what one solitary human being could muster – and pulled it off to perfection, passed away peacefully on July 20, 2023. He witnessed his biography being launched in May this year to commemorate his 93rd birthday. He worked till the last and with the same...
Last month one of the most renowned global personalities associated with Buddhism and a quite frequent visitor to Sri Lanka, Ven. Ajahn Brahmavansa Maha Thera, spent 9 days in Sri Lanka.
Ven. Ajahn Brahmavamso Thera (Peter Betts in lay life) was educated at Cambridge University after winning a scholarship to study theoretical physics.
He is a Theravada bhikkhu, trained in...
A lamp lit in the darkness prevents any accidents such as falling into pits or fracture of bones. Hence light in darkness shows the way for securing overall wellbeing. Vesak is celebrated on the full moon in May enabling the world to light the flame of wisdom and prevent falling into the abyss of ignorance.
Signifying the birth, enlightenment and death – (Parinirvāna) of...
What are the basic commonalities in spiritual and wisdom based teachings of both Jesus and the Buddha?
In studying the lives of the two spiritual masters we can observe that they were social reformers who sought to correct the societal ills they witnessed, often carried out in the name of religion or tradition.
Jesus stood against the hypocrisy in how religion was adopted...
Each human being comes into this world for a very brief sojourn. Some spend much energy and effort debating whether there is heaven or hell after death. Some others spend their time here making either hell or heaven – on earth.
Dr. Velautham Sarveswaran, a dual citizen of Sri Lanka and the UK, an engineer by profession and a self-made businessman, has seen much of this...
By Frances Bulathsinghala
What is diplomacy? It is the art and science of maintaining peaceful relationships between different individuals and nations. For...
British-born and of Jewish origin, renowned author Lesley Hazleton traces history through exceptionally empathetic biographies of...
Many of life’s problems as well as its solutions originate as a thought.Fear of lack is a thought.Fear or another is a thought....
April 22 was international mother earth day. As far as common sense goes, every day is a mother earth day. This is because we do...
Denagama Siriwardena’s Maithri Sagaraya
Officiated by several senior bhikkhus, academics and literary critics, a ceremony was held recently at the Piliyandala Wewala...
The concept of ‘harmony’ of a nation has many vicissitudes and facets that are needed for a society to thrive peacefully, happily...
As a contribution to national peace building, we feature below individual efforts of literary activists of Sri Lanka to preserve...
Today, there is much panic about skyrocketing food prices and cases of people facing a food crisis. The world has seen acute food...
The following is an interview with Sri Lankan Homeopath Dr. Imthiaz Latiff, son of the pioneering legend of homeopathy in Sri...
OPINION
The pulse of a nation beats through its traditional knowledge. This holds true for ancient civilisations such as Sri Lanka. For...
Opinion
The linking of the authentic South of Sri Lanka with the North has rarely occurred in peace building initiatives carried out here...
Jaffna Trade Fair
The Jaffna Trade Fair for the year 2022 concludes today, having commenced on Friday, January 21.Here is an interview with Aasim...
Sasikumar Subadra is 13-years-old. She lives in Killinochchi. She has no memory of three decades of bloodshed, carnage and...
This is part of a series to feature entrepreneurship that is connected with traditional food of Sri Lanka, especially with...
Opinion :
On February 4, 1948, the British formally ended their colonial occupation of Sri Lanka and granted the country ‘independence’,...
This week we feature an interview with Dr. Premasiri Gamage PhD, MBA, B.com(sp), MA, PG Dip. in Mgt(USJ), a management guru and...
This is the second part of the interview with Dr. K.S. Dahanayake (MBBS, DLM, MD) on the topic of health and its link with diet...
Below are excerpts of the interview with Dr. K.S. Dahanayake (MBBS, DLM, MD) on health and its link with diet as well as the...
What is Sri Lanka’s international leveraging position in these pandemic times? What does it have that is unique in the world?...
“Foreign Policy Perspectives; Sri Lanka First,” is the latest (4th) book published as part of a series, by the Ambassadors’ Forum...
With around 25,000 traditional medicine practitioners and thousands of other Ayurveda doctors, why have we not incorporated a...
My most recent meeting with Sri Lanka’s culinary legend and author of many books on the Lankan food heritage, Deshabandu Dr....
Continued from last week This is the second part of the interview we had with National Ayurveda Teaching Hospital...
Ayurveda involves all of nature that man is part of, has diverse dietary recommendations encompassing this unity, that act as...
The 2015 SAARC Cultural Centre publication titled Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions of South Asia, where...
Cultural Anthropologist and Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) specialist Dr. Danister Perera teaches Indigenous Knowledge in...
This week in our column we focus on the word heritage (Urumaya in Sinhala) and try to understand what it really means and should...
Last week we focused on some aspects of intangible heritage of Sri Lanka. We also questioned whether the custodians of this...