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How to teach children and young people to swallow pills By Dr B.J.C.Perera,  MBBS(Cey), DCH(Cey), DCH(Eng), MD(Paed), MRCP(UK), FRCP(Edin), FRCP(Lon), FRCPCH(UK), FSLCPaed, FCCP, Hony FRCPCH(UK), Hony. FCGP(SL)  Specialist Consultant Paediatrician and Honorary Senior Fellow, Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Many parents and caregivers know to their cost that getting children, adolescents […]

By Uditha Devapriya The interpretation of historical chronicles presents an intriguing challenge for the modern scholar and writer. The main problem, as it stands, lies in terminology. Words present no challenge to the translator, but to the historian and the archaeologist, it is not enough to translate; it is more important to contextualise. That is […]

By Uditha Devapriya In the course of his Budget speech last week, President Ranil Wickremesinghe quoted three figures: Sugathapala de Silva, Gamini Viyangoda, and Chintana Dharmadasa. All three quotes served to reinforce his belief that the country has as yet not broken out of its past. He then went on to outline his policies, all […]

By Uditha Devapriya In my essay on H. D. Premaratne, I pointed out that Premaratne and Vasantha Obeyesekere were responsible for much of the changes that swept through the Sinhala cinema in the 1970s. Basically, they helped shatter the distinction that had prevailed until then between an artistic and a commercial cinema. Both directors focused […]

The 32nd Dr. C. W. W. Kannangara Memorial Lecture titled ‘For a country with a future’: Educational reforms Sri Lanka demands today’ delivered by Prof. Athula Sumathipala, Director, Institute for Research and Development, Sri Lanka and Chairman, National Institute of Fundemental Studies, Hanthana on Oct 13 at the National Institute of Education, Maharagama Continued From […]

By Uditha Devapriya The Malwatu Oya is the oldest and most important of the rivers in Sri Lanka. Its historyContinue Reading

By Uditha Devapriya The three films that Lester James Peries directed for Ceylon Theatres – Golu Hadawatha (1968), Akkara Paha (1969), and Nidhanaya (1970) – stand out among the finest ever made in this country. They are an affirmation of life, sweeping epic-like fables that seem to tell us about ourselves, who we are and […]

By Uditha Devapriya udakdev1@gmail.com On the field and onstage, military bands play a decorative function today. Originally formed to accompany armies to their battles, they flourished in the West after the 17th century. A number of factors, including the rise of trade, industry, literacy, and imperialism, combined to popularise it in Europe and the United […]

By Uditha Devapriya Sri Lanka is still living with the consequences of Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s presidency, partly because his government has not left and partly because resistance to it, though repressed, is still alive. Under Ranil Wickremesinghe the State has asserted its will and imposed it on those who disagree with it. It has arrested protesters […]

By Uditha Devapriya Now in its 23rd year, the Colombo International Book Fair has become something of a social event. One doesn’t go there merely to buy books; one goes there to see it. It was the same, I felt, at Gotagogama: one went there not only to shout, to scream, to vent one’s anger […]