KAMALIKA PIERIS When Ralph Pieris told me ‘I was one of those who persuaded Sarachchandra to show Maname at Lionel Wendt theatre’ I sniggered a little. I knew the Lionel Wendt audience of the 1950s. It was culturally insensitive, utterly ignorant, and wanting only to be seen at a ‘western’ cultural event. Why present Maname […]

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තිස්ස ගුණතිලක  මෙම ලිපිය ඊයේ (2022 නොවැම්බර් 20වනදා) lankaweb හි පලවූ කාලාම සූත්‍රය තුල ප්‍රකටවන නාම-රෑප පරිච්ඡේදය” සමග සබදී. බුදුන්ගේ දහම ලොවේ සැමට පොදුවේ අදාල විය යුතුය. Universally applicable to all mankind. තතාගතයන් වහන්සේ ලොවේ එක් ජන කොටසක් සදහා පමනක් දේශනා කල දහමක් නැත. ජාති භාෂා ආගම් දේශසීමා ආදියෙන් බෙදී වෙන්වී පවතින ලොවකට පොදුවේ ගැලපෙන […]

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High Commission of Sri Lanka in New Delhi Sri Lanka proposed to set up a group of Eminent Persons with a view to helping galvanize greater political will and to create further international awareness among states on the importance of combating terrorist financing, at the recently concluded 3rd No Money For Terror (NMFT) Ministerial Conference […]

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By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island General Secretary of the Democratic Left Front (DLF) Vasudeva Nanayakkara, MP, yesterday (20) said that the UNP had sold the urea plant at Sapugaskanda to a foreign buyer who set it up in an Arab country.Having brought the machinery as scrap iron the buyer had re-installed the machinery and […]

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