Nanda Wanninayaka:It was a treat to read Wings of Fire, an autobiography about late Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam by himself with Arun Tiwari some time back. Re-blogging the same post I wrote after reading the book as a mark of respect to the great scientist, leader and a true patriot of India. Originally posted on Nanda Wanninayaka: Wings ...
Participants of ISIF and IGF Shortly after the trip to Japan, I had to go to Hyderabad, India on the invitation of the International Society of Information Fusion (ISIF) to take part in an ISIF grant program and to take part in the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in December, 2008. I went to Hyderabad via Chennai by Jet Airline. Chennai ...
Indian intervention in Sri Lanka: The role of India’s intelligence – Rohan Gunaratna Much has been written by many Indian and Sri Lankan writers about the Sri Lankan civil war and India’s role in it. But Professor Rohan Gunaratna’s book, “Indian intervention in Sri Lanka: The role of India’s intelligence agencies” stands out among them as it provides a good ...
Mr. Rehmat Ullah with some of his students I came into contact with 38-year-old Mr. Rehmat Ullah from the village of Chaman, Balochistan Province, Pakistan through Facebook, through Mr. Rehan Allahwalah who promotes FB as a tool to connect people for peacebuilding, development and entrepreneurship skills enhancing. Rehmat’s school, Iqra Asian International School was founded by him. In Pakistan, ...
At the lake near Mount Fuji Trip to Japan in 2008 I was invited by the Asia 21 Youth Summit to participate in the summit they held in November, 2008 in Tokyo. This was my second trip to the East – first being to China in 2000 – and I enjoyed every bit of the tour. The only downside was ...
At Kyushu University I was invited to Kyushu University in Japan to make a presentation on “Sri Lanka, Toward Peace Keeping” by the Asian Symbiosis Society in Fukuoka in November 2011. In fact, Mr. Horikawa from the same organization had visited Horizon Lanka with Mr. Preethi Sumanasekara of Sri Lanka Port Authority a few years ago and the former donated ...
Ernesto Che Guevara Ernesto Che Guevara, the Argentine revolutionary (fondly named as Che) was a big inspiration to me while I was a teenager. Though I was born into a family of conventional socialist communist values, I also admired Che more than I did Lenin. My late father being a member of the Communist Party of Sri Lanka from ...
A corn seller Corn sellers can be seen on the roadside in every city and town these days. The business also seems to be good. A boiled corn can be bought for Rs. 20 and a raw one costs 10 or 15 rupees. It is unfortunate that like in any trade, some corn sellers cheat the unsuspecting customers with either ...
Look and Learn was a British weekly educational magazine for children published by Fleetway Publications Ltd from 1962 until 1982. It contained educational text articles that covered a wide variety of topics from volcanoes to the Loch Ness Monster; a long running science fiction comic strip, The Trigan Empire; adaptations of famous works of literature into comic-strip form, such as Lorna Doone; ...
I fell in love with three Sri Lankan companies ever since I had some experience with them. This is about the first company I love to do business with and recommend to others. (This is not a paid advertisement but I write this on my own free will.) Sampath Bank www.sampath.lk Sampath Bank was launched in 1980’s with a ...
We have all faced this problem at least once in our lives, well, if we have used Microsoft Outlook – the best MS Office tool I have come across. We forget the password we used when exporting Microsoft Outlook mail file to a .pst file. If you forget your password for MS Outlook mail file, (.pst) just download Kernel PST ...
