Excerpts from P Dayaratne’s autobiography by KKS PERERA While translating the Sinhala autobiography of P. Dayaratne, the former District and Cabinet Minister who represented Ampara (Digamadulla) in ...

By Anura Gunasekera Big matches come and go; today they are numerous but the Royal-Thomian, the first of its kind in this ...

Rajan Philips Donald Trump is sucking almost all of the world’s political oxygen. Daily he is stealing the headline thunder ...

Nilantha Ilangamuwa When the Jaffar Express was hijacked by the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) this week, my mind immediately ...

When I undertook a sociological survey, at the age of 23 years among the Veddas of Wellassa-Bintenne in 1950, I came to ...

The 97th Academy Awards ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 2 ...

Dr. Anushka Kahandagamage Last week began with the disturbing news of a brutal sexual assault on a female doctor at the ...

Psoriasis is a partially heritable skin disorder, the genetic basis of which is not fully understood. Here, the authors use genome-wide association meta-analysis to discover psoriasis ...

Thousands of people have been gathering in southern Ethiopia for one of the country’s biggest cultural events. The week-long Gada ceremony, which ended on Sunday, sees the official transfer of power ...

The year she won Best Actress, Leigh ditched the corsets and hoop skirts that her Gone With the Wind character, Scarlett O'Hara, wore in the iconic film. Instead, she chose an effortlessly elegant ...

The heartbreaking portrayal won Booth the award for Best Actress. 1952: Vivien Leigh, A Streetcar Named Desire Adapted for the big screen from the Tennessee Williams' play of the same name, Vivien ...

‘Oh, the bliss of not having to go mad, commit suicide, or contemplate murder,’ Vivien Leigh trilled as she disembarked a flight in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1953. The Gone With The Wind star ...