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By Laleen Jayamanne ( Continued From Wednesday) The Multi-Ethnic fan base Gamini Fonseka, who introduced action (fights) with a new image of proletarian muscular masculinity into Sinhala cinema, was loved by both the Sinhala and Tamil male films fans for those reasons. His film Sarungale, where he played a rather sedentary Tamil Clerk (he spoke […]

A Review by — Nandi Jasentuliyana, Former Deputy Director-General, United Nations. A panorama of seventy-five strikingly attractive nature photographs was exhibited at the UCLA Art Gallery on the Earth Day weekend, April 22-23. Visitors enjoyed discovering the tographers who brought their fascinating work all the way from Sri Lanka for this unique exhibition.  With a […]

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Blindfolding the statue: By Laleen Jayamanne “I have never found anything to excite the people in quite the way this language issue does”–– Prime Minister SWRD Bandaranaike to a journalist. If true, this observation attributed to Prime Minister SWRD Bandaranaike, is quite chilling in its cynicism. ‘Excitement’ is a political emotion here and SWRD appears to […]

Despite ongoing protests, shortages, 40% inflation and a historic debt default, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says he will finish his term. His statement comes amid a wave of mass arrests of peaceful protestors, reports Janaka Biyanwila.

As far as the distraught masses are concerned, today, Parliament has lost much of its import. People have begun to treat it and, its members, who are supposed to represent them, with scorn and disgust. Not unjustifiable, because our parliamentary democracy has manifestly failed to live up to its reputation, among other things, as a […]

For the 125th anniversary of Trinity College, Kandy, The Old Boys Association published a 135-page commemorative volume, titled Memories of Trinity, containing short pieces written mainly by old boys. Consisting mostly of humorous anecdotes about teachers and students, the volume was edited by five old boys, including Lakshman Kadiragamar, who also happened to be the […]

By Susantha Hewa The Galle Face protest is growing into the biggest unconventional pressure group the country has ever seen. It has also become, an incipient monitoring mechanism comprising people who have been badly let down by a democratically elected government sliding towards a stubborn and oppressive regime. That the government and its ministers ignored […]