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Hiran  de Silva in FACEBOOK ……….. https://www.facebook.com/ Every school must have a weekly hour called ” Great Minds”. In that period, students must be shown the biographies of the greatest minds the world has produced for inspiration. If language is … Continue reading →

Fazli Sameer in his website where the title runs thus “The Girl on the Rooftop” “Every day, around four, after a sweltering noon, I’d climb the narrow staircase to the rooftop of our building. It was a small square of cracked … Continue reading →

Michael Roberts presenting an article printed in 2003: “Language and national identity: The Sinhalese and others over the centuries,” Nationalism and    Ethnic Politics, Summer 2003, 9: 75-102. The collective identity of Sinhala-speakers over four centuries dating from the 1590s is … Continue reading →

Tissa Jayatilaka and Jayantha Dhanapala, …. their OCR Text of the INTRODUCTION in a FELICITATION OF Professor ASHLEY HALPE in November 2008  Introduction Ashley Halpé, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Ceylon (now Peradeniya), celebrated his 75th birthday … Continue reading →

Michael Roberts, presenting an old unpubd article drafted in the 1990s ….with highlights being Today’s insertions It is feasible to suggest that leisure activity blossomed in Europe in the course of the nineteenth century. As European society was re-ordered by … Continue reading →

Lionel Bopage in GROUNDVIEWS, 26 January 2026, where the title runs thus “The Promise of Change and the Reality: A Balance Sheet” Photo courtesy of Kumanan Beyond governance failures, the economic picture remained deeply troubling as 2025 drew to a close. … Continue reading →

THE ISLAND, 3 September 2026 The following are excerpts from a recent interview with Lionel Bopage, who was in the 1971 JVP leadership, conducted in Sinhala by Sirasa TV’s Ten Questions program hosted by Wasantha Masinghege.  Lionel Bopage, the first General … Continue reading →

Truth is King, …. addressing “https://thuppahis.com/2026/05/11/gunaratnas-conservative-pro-american-reading-of-todays-polical-confrontations/” Rohan Gunaratna’s recent security analysis presented in Thuppahi represents a deeply biased, methodologically flawed interpretation of contemporary global conflict. In pulling back the layers of a self-proclaimed independent academic, we can see his deep … Continue reading →