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Lessons in caring and patience

Lessons in caring and patience

A daughter recounts her experience  of taking care of her mother diagnosed with a terminal illness, during her last years By Kumudini Hettiarachchi The mother was in Sri Lanka and the daughter was half a world away in America. The first pointers that all was not well with the mother came from her letters. Whereas [...]

Goodness of gauva

By Nirmala M. Pieris Gauva (Psidium guajava) Sinhala, pera, Tamil, koyya is a member of the family Myrtaceae. The trees thrive mostly in the wet and intermediate zones in Sri Lanka and the fruits are available year round. Gauva fruits are round, ovoid or pear shaped depending on the species. The size can vary from [...]

Memories are made up or real?

Memories are made up or real?

By Prof. Raveen Hanwella In Akira Kurosawa’s film Rashomon four people witness a murder, but each tells a different version of the event. Were they lying or did each one believe that his or her version of the story was true? How reliable is our memory? In previous articles I have discussed how we forget,but [...]

Understanding their reality, virtual and otherwise

In this two-part article Dr. Udena Attygalle writes on Adolescence “If you want to see the future, look through the eyes of a teenager” While adolescents may not look strikingly different to adults (except maybe their choice of clothes and how they choose to wear them), their brains and also minds are indeed different. While [...]

In this new series Nirmala

In this new series Nirmala

M. Peiris looks at edible leafy greens that are packed with nutrients and bursting with important health benefits Sambol is a Sri Lankan salad prepared using raw ingredients. Leafy green sambols (sambolaya in Sinhala and sambal in Tamil) are eaten by all segments of society in Sri Lanka. This is because the greens are relatively [...]

A night with renal colic

By Dr. Susil W. Gunasekera Around 2 a.m. I was woken by cries of pain and loud thuds on my door. They were coming from the welder sleeping on my verandah. Opening the door I rushed to him. He was in agonizing episodic pain –suffering sporadic bouts of pain. He wouldn’t let me touch his [...]

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