By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today According to ‘Ceylon’ history ancient kings had divided the country into three principalities namely, Ruhunu, Maya and Pihiti. The three kingdoms were known as ‘Tri Sinhale.‘ The last phase of the Tri Sinhale commenced after King Rajadhi Rajasinha’s death following a bitter struggle in August 1798. The main […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando President Maithripala Sirisena became Sri Lanka’s 6th Executive Present with the promise  ‘not to breach the trust’ placed in him. True to his words, he has been working untiringly to bring coherence with the SLFP to develop the Country with his new concept of a mixed government of all parties, […]

  By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Supernatural experiences of the people which I have highlighted in Ceylon Today and their reappearance in two London-based websites have inspired some of the readers who, in turn  have encouraged me to dwell in such stories. Although some do not believe in such theories, still they write and say […]

Dr. Tilak. S. Fernando  With reference to my article captioned Uropathy and Gau Mutra”, which was posted on Lankaweb site, on 5th April 2016, I am attaching herewith two pictures of the ‘ Kalutara South’ man’s infected leg’, before and after of one month’s treatment with urine. This is specifically done to accede a request […]

By Dr. Tilak S Fernando Who would think that cow urine (Gau Mutra) would be sold openly in London? It has been detected by the UK’s Food Standards Agency and gone viral in the UK media. According to the European Union Regulations, farm animal products such as urine and faeces are forbidden to enter the […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today Every Sunday morning Koralawella – Modara Road turned into a ‘fashion parade’ as Catholics put on their best attire and walked all the way to St. Michael’s church. Coorey was a devout Catholic and never missed Sunday Mass or any festivals of St. Michael’s Church. He committed a […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando  Courtesy CEYLON TODAY FEATURES  Sena (fictitious name) was one of the well-known professionals in Sri Lanka who qualified in a specialized field. After graduating abroad, in the same profession as his father, he joined his father’s company with the idea of continuing the family business from a Colombo office. He […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando An amazing story of the former British Energy Minister Chris Huhne has been exposed to the world by the Western media for lying and getting an eight month jail sentence by the Southwark Crown Court in London last week. This coincides with a controversial issue surrounding ‘lying’ by the Minister […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Whether one likes or not, personal experiences of many people with the spirits account for its existence. Buddhists believe that once a person dies, the creature’s jiva (‘living essence’ or the ‘soul’) wanders about for three months in a limbo situation before it enters into another life in the process […]

Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Dramatic turn of events were exposed in Ceylon Today (3 March) by two young men after giving chase to a black SUV jeep that attempted to escape and run, after hitting two motorcyclists in Welikada, Borella, last Sunday (28), under the headline Eyewitness Reveals Champika in Hit-and Run Drama. The news […]

  By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy The Island One year has passed since your demise on the 4th of March 2015, yet it is just like yesterday! Your friends and old contemporaries in the medical faculty still remember how you campaigned against sadistic ragging practices by senior students at the University. Subsequently you formed The […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando The latest malady in Sri Lanka appears to be a viral spreading thick and fast among the elites of this society that can be said even worse than the ‘Zika’ virus in Latin America and South America, which threatens the wellbeing of the whole world! In Sri Lanka it is […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today Koralawella was primarily a fishing periphery of Moratuwa town. Turning off from the Moratuwa Bridge towards Modara, middle class families lived alongside the main road while the fisher folk had their dwellings away from the main road, closer to seaside. St. Michael’s Catholic Church was situated just […]

Dr. Tilak S. Fernando In the present political turmoil in Sri Lanka speculation is rife to suggest that some of the SLFP party members during the Rajapaksa regime campaigned vigorously to overthrow the former President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Presidential elections held on 8th January 2015, and also at general elections held on 17 August […]

By Dr. Tilak S Fernando In Sri Lanka safety on the roads depends to a greater extent how a driving instructor moulds a beginner to become a licensed and confident driver with full knowledge of the Highway Code. However, it is a sad affair to observe some Driving School Instructors sitting like lemons, next to […]

Dr.Tilak S. Fernando  When Henry Ward Beecher scribbled the following two sentences: Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable“, I wonder whether he did ever envision his writing would become […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernand Priantha Fernando is a Senior Tourism and Management Consultant. He was a former Director of Marketing of the Ceylon Tourist Board. Fernando accounts for over 43 years of experience in the Tourist Industry, Public and Private Sectors. His expertise extends beyond tourism covering other fields such as, Employment Services, Hotel […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando  Dr. Mass R. Usuf is the President of the National Association of Homoeopaths & Affiliates, Vice President of the Ceylon Homoeopathic Medical Association and holds a PhD in Palm Diagnosis,  & Acupuncture; He is qualified in Acupressure, Naturopathy, Colour, Cupping and Magneto therapy; A member of the Foundation for Homeopathy, […]

By Dr. Tilak S Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today  Sixty-eight years ago, on 4th February 1948, a new era dawned on Ceylon when she changed from a Dominion rule to an Independent Nation, without politicians having to shed a single drop of blood. Sri Lankans therefore are duty-bound to cherish those patriotic men responsible for restoring the […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando CEYLON TODAY, 2016-01-21 At the dawn of 2016, a serious head-on collision of two buses at Panchikawatta injuring 13 people; statistics of 550 passengers admitted to the Colombo National Hospital Accident Ward at the end the year, have put the number of road accidents up by 20 per cent in 2015, […]

Dr.Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy CEYLON TODAY 19 January 2016  Yahapalana 2016 budget introduced by the Finance Minister managed to upset the hornets’ nest among the majority of the public although it was passed amidst a lot of hurly-burley and turbulences inside the House of Parliament. General public’s annoyance was marked by disruptions and various protests […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando  Recently in Kegalle, President Maithripala Sirisena his willingness to totally prohibit tobacco and alcohol sale if not for the fact that his government would be overthrown by the opposition political parties. He reconfirmed his ambition a few days ago by stating growing of tobacco will be completely stopped in Sri […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando More than two million Sri Lankans live abroad, some are working in West Asian countries, others having obtained their permanent residence status. Out of those permanently settled groups few have retained their Sri Lankan citizenship while the rest have renounced it for various reasons. In 1988, the Sri Lankan Government […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando On 19 December2015, Professor Lakshman S. Perera’s second daughter, Kanthi Rupasinhge conveyed to me in an email with unfathomable emotions the sad news about the passing away of her father in London on 17th December. She simply wrote: As you had written about him in so much depth and warmth, […]

By Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy The Ceylon Today Pushpavalli Pradeepa in the photograph is missing up to now from April 1996, and her parents are not aware of what fate had become of her to date. She was just 18 years old when a LTTE squad, during their rule and monopoly in Mullaitivu, came and dragged […]

Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Health care in Sri Lanka has been telescoped, focussed and become a contemporaneous topic where the ‘ Yahapalanaya’ government has promised to allocate more money to develop the Health Care Services. Supplementary to this subject, pharmacies and qualified pharmacists in Sri Lanka has equally become a current topic to discuss. According […]

 By Dr. Tilak S Fernando We are supposed live today in a much advanced world where many spend nearly one third of their life time in seats of higher learning known as universities and acquiring so – called ‘ knowledge’, yet such a process of learning can turn into an utter waste of time if […]

Dr. Tilak S. Fernando I refer to the undermentioned article which appeared in  Lankaweb, as far back as September 2014, titled ” On his bike all the way to the UK” about the late Arthur Alvis’ sole experience as a Sri Lankan traveling to London  on  a ‘push bicycle’ . In the text of the […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando ‘Sri Lanka is a funny country, I do not wish to be reborn in this bloody country any more”! This is what is beginning to hear these days, day after day, week after week, by those very citizens of this beautiful country who worshipped this land and prayed to be […]

By Dr. Tilak S Fernando  Nilaveli is known as the ‘ open -land of the moon-shine’. Its coastal resort lies approximately 15-16 km North-West of Trincomalee District. One of its main attractions, once upon a time, was its long and sandy beaches and not being overcrowded. This very reason earned its name as ‘the open […]