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By Sunil Dharmabandhu U.K.sunilrajdharm@yahoo.co.uk Two years ago, the gap between the number of cats and dogs in the UK stood at 1.5 million, with 7.5 million cats and nine million dogs. The pandemic saw pet numbers soar in Britain, but now the gap has closed to just one million, with 12 million cats and 13 […]

Clement Atlee (1887 – 1967), the British By Premasara Epasinghe The former LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran,once made an interesting observation sayingSri Lankans, especially the Sinhalese, remember the good deeds done unto them only for a week or two. I see some truth in this statement. Going back to some of our colourful Independence Day celebrations […]

By Kumar David One point of theoretical interest is the thesis that material benefit alone dictates the evolution of society and culture and the state-craft are mere appendages that tack along. Is it reasonable to say that the different stages of human historical evolution are a movement of society from slavery to serfdom, from classical […]

By Kumar David Of the three constitutions of Ceylon/Sri Lanka within living memory the most liberal was the Soulbury Constitution, then the Sirima-Colvin enactment; JR crafted the most authoritarian. From this experience people of my parent’s generation draw pleasant conclusions about old British times, but I have to let that discourse pass. However, one question […]

By Kumar David There are different ways to periodise the modern world and one that I find meaningful in relation to modern times is post-pandemic and pre-pandemic (or post-Covid and pre-Covid) with the boundary in December 2019 when the WHO reported many cases in Wuhan, China. The Covid defined boundary is dramatic as it is […]

By Kumar David Article 15 of the Indian Constitution states that the State shall not discriminate against any citizen on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth and so on. The text-box in this piece is an abbreviation of this Article and had the Sr Lankan Constitution contained such a provision the Sinhala […]

Sri Lanka is adrift in the Indian ocean by Kumar David We are a small island cast away and adrift in the Indian Ocean. What happens, in climatological terms to this island and its people depend entirely on global warming scenarios driven by other heavy energy consuming nations; roughly in order of consumption China, US, […]

By Kumar David Whether there will be a global recession within a year or two and what its impact on Sri Lanka may be, are debated among the cognoscenti. On the first question there is little agreement among economists, Central Bankers and investors the world over. If there is a global recession the nature of […]

By Gamini Wimalasuriya My late father and my mother who is 104 years now always used to talk about “Telijjawila Days’ as the best time of their lives, reminiscing with lot of nostalgia the days he was the Principal of Telijjawila Central School. Dharmasoka College My father late H L Wimalasuriya hails from a family […]

By Kumar David There are three dangerous global trends. The first is not new, it is the growth of right-wing extremism in the US; the second is more recent and commenced in 2022 with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The third is the prospect of Sino-US military hostilities. All three will affect this country. Right-wing […]