Nihal Ekanayaka Nihal Ekanayaka is 54-year-old farmer from Mahawilachchiya, Anuradhapura. He was a hard working farmer and served his family of 5 daughters by cultivating his paddy land for all these long years. He earned a name as a fierce volleyball dasher when he was young. All his daughters are also very talented in sports. Three of them are married ...
Southern Expressway On 23rd and 24th of this month I had the opportunity to travel on the Southern Expressway (E 01) for the first time. I traveled from Maharagama to Galle by the expressway. I have traveled in expressways of other countries so, automatically I happened to compare and contrast. Mostly it was contrasting. Naming and signs had been done ...
The Facebook Effect Front Cover Tin Tin’s Face These days I am reading the book “The Facebook Effect” by David Kirkpatrick. I read 1/3rd of the book at Ranjith’s place and borrowed it to finish reading at my home. But here I face a serious problem. My 3 years and 10 months old son, Abilash thinks it is a Tin ...
On the third day of our motorcycle journey, August 10, 2016, Meer Ali and I left the guest house in Nuwara Eliya around 9.00 am. The Lake Gregory nestled among the misty hills was beckoning and we rode towards the Lake Gregory, enjoyed the beautiful scenery and the cool breeze for a while, before getting back on the road ...
A Catamaran in the Sea Negombo Beach Park is a place to spend a cool evening or a sunny morning. The scenery of the rising sun or setting sun is beautiful from the Negombo beach. There are scores of people in the evenings here and busloads of local travelers also come to see this beautiful beach. Foreigners are hard to ...
Nokia Asha 501 I happened to buy a Nokia Asha 501 dual SIM mobile phone as my previous Samsung Duos got stuck suddenly. There wasn’t any other decent option for me. Had there been a Samsung Duos I would have gone for that definitely but limited options in the shop made me buy the Nokia phone. I don’t say Nokia ...
The Godfather Cover I read Italian – American author Mario Puzo’s The Godfather within few days as it was an extremely interesting novel. I had watched the movie based on the book earlier and never expected the book to be this exciting. The book was published in 1969. It is based on a fictitious Mafia family that dominates New York ...
Rambutan at a stall Last year Leslie Varghese from Kerala, India visited Sri Lanka to look for Malwana rambutan. This year he sent his director of their farm here. We went on a rambutan tour on June 17, 2014 to both Kaduwela and Malwana. Jose loves fruits. He has a big farm in Kerala which he started as a private ...
An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon together With somewhat Concerning Severall Remarkable passages of my life that hath hapned since my Deliverance out of Captivity – Book Cover Robert Knox wrote an excellent account of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka.) He was an English trader and sailor. He was captured and taken prisoner by the troops of the then ...
Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim Girls in Sri Lanka – From http://www.glorioustravels.lk Nanda Wanninayaka – (Column 02 on November 10, 2018 – From Palmyra Peninsula) (This was originally written a couple of months ago but I deliberately waiting till a General Election or a Presidential Election was called. Now that the first option has come into effect, I publish it.) Velupillai ...
Lesbianism had been there from the time immemorial. The middle age history tells that the term Lesbian came from the Greek island Lesbos. The island is still called Lesbos in the maps. According to some legends, the island Lesbos was used to outcast the bad women. There was not a single man in the island and obviously, women started ...
Meer Ali and Nanda Wanninayaka in Nuwara Eliya We started from Naula and bypassed Kandy as it is an utter waist of time to go through the city. So, we went via Katugasthota to Peradeniya, then to Nuwara Eliya via Gampola. The road was amazing and the vegetation was so green and beautiful. It was colder when we reached Nuwara ...
Mahawilachchiya is a rural village 45 kilometers away from Anuradhapura town. It is situated in the boundary of the Wilpattu National Park. You would be surprised to hear that the children of this distant village excel in computers and English with the little resources they have with their educational institute, the Horizon Lanka. Horizon Lanka Foundation www.horizonlanka.org has been serving ...
