Gamini Fonseka has been my favourite Sinhala film actor since childhood. Gamini entered my life when I was about eight years ...

A Melancholic Song for Public Education and Social Enlightenment by Liyanage Amarakeerthi Guru Geethaya , the song of a teacher, the Sinhala version of Chingiz Aitmatov’s famous novel, The First ...

Writer, teacher and inventor Nadeeka Maduwanthi, better known as ‘Nadee Teacher’, recently released eight publications for ...

Children’s book author Arefa Tehsin’s The Witch in the Peepul Tree will be translated into Sinhala. We caught up with the ...

The lengthy secessionist war between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan armed forces as well as ...

She refers to writing by women in Sri Lanka, from women cadres of the LTTE to Sinhala women, to analyse how roles and identities were redefined in the course of a war between communities that ...

Badi bi was a child widow who ran my grandparents’ household, and so on. Not just the characters, when I began writing, I ...

Whatever possessed former President Ranil Wickremesinghe to flamboyantly claim that the report of the Commission of Inquiry inquiring into the use of the Batalanda Housing Scheme as an unlawful ...

Gamini gave an astounding performance acting as a Tamil in Sunil Ariyaratne’s ‘Sarungale’. He played Nadarajah, the Jaffna Tamil clerk in a story that highlighted both the anti-Tamil communal violence ...

It is in this context that this column focuses on a scribe who in his heyday, bestrode the world of Tamil journalism like a colossus. Sinnathamby Sellathurai whose birth centenary was on 26th February ...