Look and Learn cover (number 4) 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 ...
Look and Learn Cover Page 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 ...
On April 20, 2016, Benjamin Pages (the first French volunteer at Horizon Lanka) and I started our journey to Batticaloa from Badulla. In fact, Badulla is a special place in my life. I spent my honeymoon in Badulla for a whole year exactly ten years ago!!!! Badulla was a nice little city in Sri Lanka with constant drizzles I love ...
Dian Gomes – Photo Courtesy – BUSINESS TODAY I had the great pleasure of meeting with Dian Gomes, the Chairman of Hela Clothing (an apparel manufacturing company,) in his Colombo office a few days ago. He was my superior at MAS Holding (Slimline subsidiary) between the years 2001 – 2002. (Well, he was my superior, but he was also a friend, a mentor ...
Anthony Tissera, a rambutan seller in Ja-Ela along Colombo – Katunayake Airport road For the last three years, I have been writing a post on rambutan season each year consecutively. After reading my posts, two gentlemen from an Indian fruit farm called Homegrown www.homegrown.in visited Sri Lanka and took rambutan fruits and plants to India. They were particularly interested in ...
I am not too sure with this law or tradition where the Members of Parliament (MPs) enjoy a special right or privilege when it comes to them being arrested as suspects of crimes. When an MP is to be arrested, the police need to inform (or is it get permission?) from the Speaker of the House. They say all ...
Nanda Wanninayaka nanda.wanninayaka@gmail.com Jokers (and jerks – including Mr Anura Dissanayaka) apart, there are two mainstream candidates in the run-up to the presidential election scheduled to be held on November 16, 2019. Well, whether you like it or not, it is Mr Gotabhaya Rajapaksa (GR) and Mr Sajith Premadasa (SP) who are the frontrunners for the contest and the ...
The Caucasian Chalk Circle I read the English translation of Caucasian Chalk Circle again recently. I had read the Sinhala adaptation done by Henry Jayasena, the Hunuwataye Kathawa as a schoolboy as it was in the syllabus. Then I read it again for Advanced Level English literature in English in 1998. This time I read it just for fun. I ...
Jaffna International Airport Jaffna International Airport (JIA) was ceremonially opened yesterday (October 17, 2019.) JIA becomes the third international airport in Sri Lanka with the first being the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) in Katunayake and the second being the Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA.) This was a long due project. Longstanding Civil War in the North and the East ...
Meet Tanuri. When she was just 3 months old she was diagnosed with thalassemia major, a potentially life-threatening illness. Thalassemia major causes large numbers of red blood cells to be destroyed, leading to liver and heart problems. Due to her condition, each month Tanuri must undergo a complete blood transfusion. In addition, every night she must endure a painful ...
Nilminimala Ariyarathna This was written by me in March, 2000 Having seen some extraordinarily beautiful paintings that were done by a young village lass, I was desperate to meet the artist. She lived in a very remote typically traditional village on the outskirts of Mihinthale, Anuradhapura. I visited the artist personally with a teacher of mine on Sunday the ...
Ragging in Sri Lanka I think most of Sri Lankans are already aware of inhuman ragging in Sri Lankan universities (Visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragging_in_Sri_Lanka) that has caused several deaths, lifelong injuries and both physical and mental trauma to the freshers. The most recent heinous act where a bunch of male and female students in the University of Kelaniya forced a new female ...
Nanda Wanninayaka nanda.wanninayaka@gmail.com Jokers (and jerks – including Mr. Anura Dissanayaka) apart, there are two mainstream candidates in the run-up to the presidential election on November 16, 2019. Well, whether you like it or not, it is Mr. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa (GR) and Mr. Sajith Premadasa (SP) who are the frontrunners for the contest and the others are just vote spoilers. ...
Abhilash, my son, had to enter a new Montessori in Ja-Ela since I had to come back to Colombo for my new job. This is a Montessori with hundreds of kids and not a small nursery like the one in Mahawilachchiya. I was kind of upset whether Abhi will be comfortable in such a big place. But he easily got ...
I had the pleasure of visiting the Radella Relay Station of Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation on September 22, 2018. It was my good friend Mr. Sudarshi Madanayake took me there. I am publishing the pictures I took during the tour. The station is situated in a beautiful mountanous terrain in cold and amazingly attractive Nuwara Eliya district. Most of the ...
Nanda Wanninayaka nanda.wanninayaka@gmail.com Jokers (and jerks – including Mr Anura Dissanayaka) apart, there are two mainstream candidates in the run-up to the presidential election on November 16, 2019. Well, whether you like it or not, it is Mr Gotabhaya Rajapaksa (GR) and Mr Sajith Premadasa (SP) who are the frontrunners for the contest and the others are just vote ...
How to Start a Successful Blog in One Hour – Steve Scott “How to Start a Successful Blog in One Hour” by Steve Scott provides you almost all the information on how to start a blog (with WordPress.com) and monetize it in a few easy steps. It is brief, easy to read and has the exact information you need for ...
