She gave them theatre, they gave her life lessons
A child pirouettes onto the stage. As she, in love with the limelight, prances and dances, she is joined by others with smiles trusting and innocent, taking us to a realm where there are no wolves in the shadows. Where in fact, says Sunethra Bandaranaike, “none of the negative qualities of us non-disabled humans exist.” [...]
From clatter of oxygen cylinders to noiseless flow at NHSL
Oxygen has become the most used word among healthcare workers after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially now in neighbouring India battling a desperate shortage of oxygen. The National Hospital of Sri Lanka (NHSL) in the heart of Colombo is the largest and best equipped Teaching Hospital in the country with a bed strength [...]
Letters to the Editor
COVID-19: Don’t let negligence make us another India When we watch television or YouTube, the images of desperate people dying in their thousands in India is disturbing. We feel sad and helpless. How did India come to such a tragic situation? It is sheer negligence. The government of India as well as the people of [...]
Appreciations
A larger than life person he had time for everyone AZLI ISMAIL Ahamed Ghazzali Ismail – or Azli as he was universally known – passed away on April 19, at the relatively young age of 61 years. But boy, did he live those years large! This was made even more self-evident by the outpouring of [...]
‘I had to unlearn to find my writing voice’
In March 2021, Kanya D’Almeida received an email from an online publication about a short story she had submitted. A firm, polite rejection, it outlined a list of things to be tightened or changed and she groaned, wondering if she would need to take the story back to the drawing board. A day later, she [...]
A medical whodunnit that unravels much more
Dr. Carmel Miranda did not want to do a Mayhem Parva (the genre of mysteries set in a rural English village). She did not really set out to emulate a long line of silver-haired ladies and write a nostalgic thriller. But as the whodunnit has today become so ubiquitous, with sub-genres like ‘culinary’ and ‘gardening’ [...]
Tissamaharama Paediatric OPD: Making it a better place for the little ones
He had gone from bustling Gampaha to Tissamaharama with lots of experience, also armed with an insight into how the healthcare services in the United Kingdom and Australia worked. The scene at the Paediatric Outpatient Department (OPD) of the Tissamaharama Base Hospital when Consultant Paediatrician Dr. Mihira Manamperi walked in nine months ago in July [...]
Sweet connection for Eid
One of the most awaited holidays in the Islamic calender is ‘Eid-ul-Fitr’ known as the festival of breaking the fast. With happy greetings of ‘Eid Mubarak’ and exchanging salaams, Muslims around the world celebrate the end of the holy month of Ramadan in which they fast from sunrise till sunset as an act of worship, [...]
Something to “woof” about
The Sri Lanka Veterinary Association launches many firsts to mark World Veterinary Day The Sri Lanka Veterinary Association (SLVA) celebrated World Veterinary Day on April 24, at Hotel Taj Samudra, Colombo, introducing ambitious new initiatives such as the “Vet Mobile” App, “Your Veterinarian Magazine”, “Voice of Veterinarians” video series and the SLVA platform on public [...]
Vet Mobile App: Fulfilling a longfelt need
A longfelt need among pet owners and animal lovers was fulfilled with the launch of the Vet Mobile App by Dialog Digital Health Pvt Ltd together with the Sri Lanka Veterinary Association (SLVA) at the World Veterinary Day celebrations. The Vet Mobile App permits a pet owner or an animal lover to contact a Veterinary [...]