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  • Yal Devi
    Yal Devi: Queen of the Northern Line
    Travelling by train is a blissful adventure. For me going to Jaffna by train has been a beautiful experience- first as a schoolboy on holiday and later as an adult on media...
  • Living to the fullest in 2023
    The old year is gracefully fading away. We welcome 2023. Are you feeling anxious and contemplating the challenges of the coming year? Well please don’t. Worry and anxiety can...
  • Purple skies and French fries
    December is a month loaded with dejavu. It is a time to reflect and refresh ones soul, without any mythical hallucinations! 2022 would be a year with an assortment of...
  • Civil Aircraft Manufacturing in India
    Purple skies and French fries
    December is a month loaded with dejavu. It is a time to reflect and refresh ones soul, without any mythical hallucinations! 2022 would be a year with an assortment of...
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  • UN Peacekeepers
    Sustaining World Peace: A Global Duty
    The United Nations has devoted September 21 as a day dedicated to strengthening the ideals of peace. The day was first celebrated in 1981. By tradition the UN rings the Peace Bell at its headquarters...
  • The 9 manifestations
    Navarathri - Nine Nights of Spiritual Empowerment
    Spiritual attainment is the true essence of human life. Being liberated from all forms of attachment is the sign of reaching the highest form of divine devotion. The Hindu community in Sri Lanka and...
  • Developing Urban Night Tourism in Colombo
    In 1978 the famous American band Journey released a hit single titled ‘Lights’ sung by their lead singer Steve Perry. The beautiful song talks about the lights in the ‘city by the bay’, and its...
  • Police must rise to meet Future Challenges
    The Sri Lanka Police recently celebrated their anniversary with great pomp and decorum, with the Police branding themselves as the “Peoples Police”. This is a good initiative. Sri Lanka Police has...
  • Aluthkade: Colombo’s Trendy Culinary Domain
    There is an old saying that tasty food needs no advertising. This is true. For those of you vibrant foodies, you will agree that the ‘street food’ at Aluthkade is gradually creating pulsating raves...
  • Traditions of a British Royal Funeral
    For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of kings - Shakespeare, Richard IIThe world solemnly mourns and remembers the great royal monarch Queen Elizabeth 11. Her...
  • Nallur Kovil Festival Dazzles Northern Province
    The fragrance of incense overwhelmed the air. Jaffna was alive with renewed spiritual zeal, once again. The multitude of devotees was more than the previous two years. I saw a mélange of poojas –...
  • Elvis Presley with his wife Priscilla
    Remembering the King of Rock ‘N’ Roll
    John Lennon once said: “Before Elvis there was nothing, after Elvis nothing was the same.” As a young adult in the 1940s, Sam Phillips became acutely aware that no genre of music existed primarily...
  • Transforming Lives, Enriching Values through Drug Rehabilitation
    Rising trend in use of addictive drugs is worrisome and needs serious attention. Most common examples of drug use include alcohol, cannabis, opioids, nicotine, psycho stimulant drugs and...
  • Respect and Protect Our Women
    Every woman is unique and has equal rights. A woman represents a daughter, wife and mother. Women are the live wire of any family in terms of its unity and operation. The recent social media video of...
  • Michael Jackson: Yesterday, Today and Forever
    In August 1982, Michael Jackson began work with Quincy Jones on a new album at Westlake Studios in Los Angeles. The album would be entitled Thriller with a budget of about US$ 750,000 to produce, and...
  • Scenes from the movie Redeeming Love
    Redeeming Love in Troubled Times
    Redeeming Love (released January 2022) is based on a best-selling novel by Francine Rivers, which was inspired by the Old Testament book of Hosea (Bible). The novel, first released in 1991, has sold...
  • We are bound to protect our environment
    Ecosystems support all life on Earth. The healthier our ecosystems are, the healthier the planet - and its people. The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration aims to prevent, halt and reverse the...
  • The role of unbiased media in building a Nation
    Media has today become the voice of our society. Globally there are a variety of media platforms that have stimulated the thoughts of the younger generation and other sections of our society. Media...
  • Barbara Sansoni's Barefoot creations
    Barbara Sansoni Queen of Vibrant Colours
    Sri Lankan women have risen to great heights in diverse fields, bringing honour to their Motherland. These prudent and inspiring women had the long term vision, supplemented by relentless...