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Malik Peiris, the first Sri Lankan Fellow of the
Royal Society
Following in the footsteps of giants
On May 18, 2006 the Royal Society of the United
Kindom elected 44 new Fellows and six foreign members. Lord Rees,
the president of the Royal Society, said that the new Fellows,
'....... followed in the footsteps of Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin,
Stephen Hawking, David Attenborough and Tim Bremers-Lee the inventor
of the world wide web'.
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Handle gentle giants in humane manner
On May 19, the Richmond Times Dispatch of USA
carried an article in the middle page title 'Sri Lankas naughty
pachyderms to pack trunks for rehab'. This news was also on the
internet on CBS news. I read this article with much interest, as I
have been involved in many elephant projects in Sri Lanka from my
childhood.
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Cutting edge of Hindu revivalism in Jaffna
After about 300 years of intense persecution
under the Portuguese and the Dutch, the Hindus of Jaffna heaved a
sigh of relief when the British took over at the fag end of the 18th
century.
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