http://www.sundaytimes.lk Official website of the Sunday Times Newspaper in Sri Lanka Sat, 18 Jun 2022 19:21:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.sundaytimes.lk/220619/sunday-times-2/1952-premier-stakes-how-and-why-of-the-controversy-over-dudleys-appointment-486234.html 18 June 2022 @ 5:49 pm lt;p style= quot;text-align: left; quot; align= quot;center quot; gt; lt;strong gt;Today is the 111th birth anniversary of Sri Lanka rsquo;s second Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake lt;/strong gt; lt;/p gt; lt;p style= quot;text-align: left; quot; gt; lt;strong gt;By the Senanayake Foundation lt;/strong gt; lt;/p gt; On March 22, 1952, D.S. Senanayake, the Father of the Nation and the First Pri... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/220619/sunday-times-2/gods-have-made-lankans-cricket-mad-but-should-not-prolong-national-crisis-486231.html 18 June 2022 @ 5:47 pm That old aphorism lsquo;Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make them mad rsquo; which has come down from classical Greek times through past western civilisations to the present day, took a humorous twist in our mind when we peeked into a TV programme showing a cricket match between the touring Australian team and the Sri Lankan team. lt;img class= quot;alignright size-full wp-image-4... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/220619/sunday-times-2/maneka-mickey-wickremasinghe-entrepreneur-and-artist-486237.html 18 June 2022 @ 5:45 pm I first met Mickey over forty years ago with Esmond Wickremasinghe. They owned a small hotel near the beach in Passikudah which Esmond wickedly named lsquo;Sun and Fun rsquo;. They would travel a long distance over bad roads from Colombo to the Eastern Province to spend holidays on that fantastic shoreline. I led a research team on family planning in the eighties, and we would spend time in the o... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/220619/sunday-times-2/eight-lessons-from-the-ukraine-war-486288.html 18 June 2022 @ 2:13 pm When Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his invasion of Ukraine on February 24, he envisaged a quick seizure of Kyiv and a change of government analogous to Soviet interventions in Budapest in 1956 and Prague in 1968. But it wasn rsquo;t to be. The war is still raging, and no one knows when or how it will end. While some observers have urged an early ceasefire, others have emphasised the ...