New Year - time for amity, unity and tradition

Each country, each nation has a specific festival that it identifies with its very own and around these festivals those age long traditions are built. To Sri Lankans a Sinhala and Tamil New Year is such a festival.

Full Story

Dudley Senanayake - the reluctant politician

History stands between man and oblivion. And history is no cold marble slab carved with fine, decorative lettering. It lives and moves. History is composed as much by what a leader had given to his people as what the generation make of what is given. In the end, all our greatest leaders have stood for few essential things, although each one of them may have emphasised one at the expense of the other, although each left the struggle unfinished.

Full Story

Revitalizing UN:

Power of youth

Our world today is weighed down by a bewildering range of global issues - from climate change, economic crisis, poverty and wealth disparities, to terrorism and food shortages. How do we begin to untangle this complexity of interwoven problems?

Full Story