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By Shantha Gamage In New York all bookshops have been built to resemble libraries. People sit and read before they buy books, be they fast-selling novels or more intellectually challenging works. The city is dotted with children’s parks, and most of them have libraries. Mothers reading and acting out stories to their children is a […]

A personal story as recalled by Capt F.R.A.B. Musafer 4th Regt SLA (Retd) Background The year 1971 was ushered in with a very pleasing political utterance to the public that the Army did not need guns but needed plowshares – agricultural machinery and tools to support the food drive. It was at a time when […]

WNPS Monthly Lecture -The dilemma of wildlife welfare and ethics in the present era By Prof. Tharanga Thoradeniya May 18 (Thursday) 6 pm at Jasmine Hall, BMICH Over the years, human welfare and development have been pursued at the expense of everything around us. Human interference has caused massive shifts within our entire ecosystem and […]

Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, once considered a "war hero" by the Sinhalese Buddhist majority for crushing the LTTE and ending the nearly 30-year civil war, is now detested by the same people who dramatically stormed his official residence over Sri Lankas worst economic crisis following which he fled the country in the middle of the night. World News | Gotabaya Rajapaksa; A war Hero Detested by His Admirers over Sri Lankas Worst ...

THE SIXTY-TWO COUP – III A group of senior police and military officers attempted to overthrow the Sirimavo Bandaranaike government. They were driven by three critical events in the years leading up to January 1962. The coup participants belonged to the Westernised urban middle class who were alarmed at the undermining of the secular plural […]

The Department of Fine Arts of the University of Peradeniya honours the memory of Dr. Dharmasena Pathiraja with a Memorial Lecture by Dr. Laleen Jayamanne on The Relevance of an Alternative Film Culture Today at 5.30 pm on the 28th of January, 2022 at the Arts Faculty Seminar Room and via Zoom Dr. Pathiraja graduated […]

The 1962 coup – Part II A group of senior Police and Military officers attempted to overthrow the Sirimavo Bandaranaike Government. They were driven by three critical events in the years leading up to January 1962. The coup participants belonged to the Westernised urban middle class who were alarmed at the undermining of the secular […]

While the dawning of the New Year, 2022, in Melbourne, Australia, didn’t turn out to be as exciting, as one would have expected, mainly due to the Omicron virus, there was plenty of action in our scene. Although not all bands found work coming their way, DJs, I’m told, had a field day, pumping up […]