In place of plastic: Lankan entrepreneur makes strides on global stage
They are the ‘Climate Champions’ standing tall and firm in Earth’s race against global warming and its destruction. Picked from across the globe to be on ‘The Independent Climate 100 List 2025’, it is “a recognition of the people and companies dedicated to finding positive climate solutions”. Some have made a splash recently with a [...]
Beyond the beaten track
It’s telling that Eshan Goonesekera, though having lived all his life in Chelsea, called his publishing business Paradise Isle. The pull of his ancestral Sri Lanka was strong, as evidenced in Eshan’s photography spanning more than three decades – pink sunsets of the southern coast, the cerulean dry zone sky above a pure white stupa [...]
‘La Bamba!’ West End comes to Cinnamon Life this April
‘La Bamba! The Song of Veracruz’, a West End-licensed musical inspired by the music, movement and storytelling traditions of Mexico will run from April 24 to 28, with seven performances across five days at Cinnamon Life’s Forum, a purpose-built venue seating over 900. Cinnamon Life, in collaboration with the John Keells Foundation and in association [...]
Letters to the Editor
We should be grateful that our leaders did not tread the path of Mahatma Gandhi Contrary to Don Manu’s claim, Sri Lanka’s independence owes more to Sri Lankan statesmen such as Sir Ponnambalam Arunachalam and Sir James Peiris than to Mahatma Gandhi. In India, following the implementation of the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms in 1920, Provincials Councils [...]
Appreciations
He was a mentor, role model and source of inspiration to many Daya Jayasundara It is with profound sadness that we remember Daya Jayasundara, whose remarkable contributions to both sports and the Sri Lanka Police Service have left an indelible mark on Sri Lankan society. As the third child in a family of nine, born [...]
Tracing Sri Lanka’s early medical greats
The story of Sri Lanka’s medical history has largely been limited to the administrative reports of the colonial period, the chronicling of the country’s medical scene in the Ceylon Medical Journal, and the monumental work A History of Medicine in Sri Lanka from the Earliest Times to 1948 by the late Dr. C. G. Uragoda, [...]
A country without a National Art Gallery is a country without an artistic memory
Sri Lanka’s National Art Gallery, located in Colombo, is not merely a physical structure. It is a repository of the nation’s artistic memory, a space that reflects cultural identity, historical continuity, and creative freedom. Its prolonged closure and incomplete renovation raise serious concerns about how we, as a nation, value our cultural heritage. The National [...]
CMF completes distribution of school bags in Project-Hope
The not-for-profit Country Music Foundation (CMF) last week completed the distribution of a total of 210 free school bags and, separately, 46 shoe vouchers to children in Kolonnawa, Kandy and Nuwara Eliya affected by Cyclone Ditwah and the recent floods. Through an appeal, the CMF raised Rs.1 million from many generous donors for its Project-Hope [...]
From the earliest granite bench to reign of wood
Look closely and you see the detail: On the cover of this recently released book is a dignitary seated on a lion-headed chair with animal feet legs. The illustration is from a wall painting from the Suriagoda Raja Maha Vihare of the Kandyan period, a fine representation of the kind of elaborate furniture design in [...]
A law book revised for the times
First published in 1970, Professor G. L. Peiris’ ‘The Law of Evidence in Sri Lanka’ has, for more than five decades, occupied a distinctive place in the country’s legal literature. Few works of legal scholarship in Sri Lanka have enjoyed such continuity of use. For generations of law students, practising attorneys and members of the [...]