Mangala Samaraweera: Politician who swam against the current

Young Mangala Samaraweera with his mother, Khema, as he entered politics late 80s. By Somasiri Munasinghe A picture of former Sri Lankan president Chandrika Kumaratunga pausing to look at the last puffs of smoke rising from the chimney at the…
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Bhagya Abeyratne: Greta Thunberg of Sri Lanka

Bhagya Abeyratne appearing on the Sinhala version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’ television quiz show. Last standing Sri Lanka’s endemic Crudia Zeylanica tree which district forest officer Devani Jayathilake managed to save from the ax. Nineteen-year-old Bhagya Abeyratne…
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Imelda – A Narrative Of Memory, Passion & Irony

The cover of the Sinhala novel. Reviewer Prof. Ari Ariyaratne of Heartland Community College, Illinois, Imelda. Published by Surasa Books Sri Lanka. 2020. Rs. 600 This review was originally published in Colombo Telegraph on March 16, 2021 Somasiri Munasinghe is…
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Bandula Jayasekera: A fighter till his death

Bandula Jayasekera touring the battle field Bandula Jayasekera, who served as the Toronto Sri Lankan Consul General during the crucial last few weeks of the island’s 30-year-old civil war passed away on February 5. The journalist-turned diplomat was suffering from Myelodysplastic…
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Sri Lankan-born South Indian TV actor Indra Kumar commits suicide

Indra Kumar was living in a refugee camp in Chennai. (Right) MS Dhoni actor Sandeep Nahar died by suicide two days earlier. A Sri Lankan-born Tamil television actor, Indra Kumar, committed suicide on February 18, according to Chennai police. The…
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