January 13th, Ramanna Nikaya Headquarters, Colombo 5 A media conference was organised by Justice for Animals, a community project under the Sri Bodhiraja Foundation, to discuss the enactment of the Animal Welfare Bill. The panel consisted of three key speakers; Ven Dr Omalpe Sobhitha Thero - President of the Sri Bodhiraja Foundation, Mr U. R. de Silva - President ...
If you think that vampires, ghouls and slithery things are creepy and scary this story is going to give you the shivers for some time to come, mostly because it’s not a legend but factually correct! Today’s narrative is about a creature called the guinea worm, which though that name sounds quite tame, is in fact one of the most ...
Marina* is our 'Cleaning lady,' an attractive, dark, late thirtyish Muslim woman, with a sweet and humble smile, who glides around the place keeping things clean and silently goes away dressed in black. She is the only person in office who doesn't have her clique, dosnt eat with us at the lunch table, the usual office rules don't apply perhaps ...
There is a superstition, I hear, in west Africa that if a elder/married woman bares her backside at you, you will practically turn to stone or be so cursed that you are as good as dead.- men who are exposed are considered dead. No one will cook for them, marry them, enter into any kind of contract with them ...
I will never invest in a Sri Lankan company for as long as I live- heres why: Its been more than 7 years since I bought debentures from Vajira Houses and they failed to return the capital I invested the COURT ORDER was given in 2009 and yet there is no payment to meIve been calling practically twice a week ...
Introducing you to the modest Wanapetha "Resort" which is actually a restaurant, affording tasty hygienic local fare, complete with the fried lake fish from the nearby reservoir . You can find this cute eatery on the Tanamalwila Road, next to the Udawalawe Police Station.( Colombo Monaragala Route, and there is a bus halt right nearby where the No 98 halts ...
The University is such a beautiful place, sprawling acres of lawn and the most incredible trees and flowering plants, this looks like a little bit of some other country, maybe England…except of course you see the demurely dressed local girls, who are made to wear long skirts and till some time back were not allowed to wear jeans, for fear ...
July 18And so these days prompted by Uncle Normal, and his classy vegan friends, we are all on a drive to be a bit more earth- and environment- conscious. (Even more than we previously were) In our little nuclear family (single mother and two kids albeit adult) this requires somewhat strange new practices like cleaning the commode with baking ...
Walpurgis Night, and the risks of being different C Gadiewasam April 30th which fell last week, was although few modern people know about it, one of the biggest days in the calendar of the ancient witches of Europe in the Dark Ages; or that's what is claimed. It sits at the exact opposite of Halloween or All Hollows Eve, ...
Theres a charming Sinhala saying that no matter how crowded a place is, when the King comes everyone has to give him space…you'll be tickled to know that this is said in reference to that very Sri Lankan delicacy called buffaloe curd or "Mee Kiri" because no matter how sumptuously you may have feasted at a local festivity, and how ...
Life in this modern day and age has become such a relentless rat race that moms in particular, single and or working moms are likely to feel incredible levels of stress, in particular if you are trying to bring up small ones, manage a competitive stance on the career front and hold an important relationship together and sometimes do ...
Tovil for Soma.By Chandrika GadiewasamOne evening a few weeks after their father’s death, Soma was lighting a lamp to a God in their garden, when she felt her wrist twist, like in a cramp. It was six thirty, that moment between dusk and night and the pain made her almost faint, and then both her wrists began to twist backwards, ...
You hear from the news each day terrible crimes are committed, people like monsters killing other people, sometimes for money or anger or jelously or to simply snatch a gold chain, and sometimes you cant even begin understand why. It seems like demons are possesing them and making them do things which cause tragedy and pain to even themselves too, because ...
Life gave you to her.you grew inside a womanyou were born tearing her apart,grew drinking her blood..life gave her to you and night after night you found heaven through a womanand kept tearing at her flesh,but life fades,you will one day be old and weakand a woman will guide your clutching,frightened hand.did you ever stop to wonder ifDeath is a ...
December 7thDisaster, Tragedy, DOOM! I didn’t know my life would come to this. They put beautiful Patchy, of the long fluffy fur, the love of my life, that irreplaceable cougar of my dreams, into some kind of large LUNCH BOX with slats and put cellotape around it and then carried her off in a three wheel! I couldn’t believe ...
November 30th Such a shock . Suddenly the hewmies have gone away. I think that perhaps our world is over. I don’t know what to do . I don’t know what I have done. One day they were here the next day they were gone! In that metal chariot, you know. Marmar has given up on us. I couldn’t even ...
Name: Chandrika aka Pushy aka Aljuhara etcSex: Female, but I don’t accept any of the weaknesses attributed to the state.Age: 38 looks a bit older, but feels a lot younger due to having lived life back to front.Civil Status : Divorced in December 2004 after
And so , since all stories must have a beginning , my life story probably starts with this wonderful ancestor, grandma Isabelle. Now if that name makes you think of sweet, genteel colonial ladies with delicate fans, parasols and elbow length white gloves, partaking of "Tiffin" or groping tremulously for their smelling salts, let me bust the bubble ...
Serendipity has always been one of my favourite wordsFor a long time I didnt know what it meant but associated it with eating Marie Biscuits and Ambul Kesel, on a quiet Balmy afternoon in my grandpas antique house in Unawatuna( those old houses with the fancy trelis work and wooden windows with bars across...and the doors are double doors with ...
