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Fishing boats on the shore at Mawella Bay

Social and Environmental sustainability to work in tandem at Mawella Bay

By Zander Combe Tourism has more to do with community engagement than what one may imagine. At its roots tourism is all about foreigners meeting locals and learning about each other. ...

Sri Lanka’s Menike - Yohani

By Tyron Devotta Manike Mage Hithe by Yohani de Silva is going viral in pandemic proportions. It is a quaint catchy song which took on a surprisingly high hit rate in Sri Lanka before it spread like ...

Experiencing and supporting Sri Lanka and its diversity

by Tim Jacobson To some Sri Lanka is a small island sitting in the ocean at the south of the Indian subcontinent with the expectation that it and its large neighbour would be fairly similar. That is ...

...of pandemics and Vincent Van Gogh - Shyamala School of Arts

“Starry, starry night Paint your palette blue and gray Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the darkness in my soul” - Don McLean The pandemic is a good time to paint, like Van ...

The Pandemic President of Havelocks!

At 106 years of age, Havelocks is one of Colombo’s older rugby clubs, and has over the years earned itself quite a reputation for the field game. But this last year has taken its toll on the ...

තෑgi — a silver lining in a dark cloud

During the pandemic Joanna Jayawardena found a silver lining in the dark cloud. She is a maker of gifts, and the success to her story is the detail that goes into personalising the gift boxes she ...

What has the Virus and an Unguarded Digital Economy have in common?

Ajit Gunewardene is the Founder/Chairman of Bluestone Capital Ltd. Bluestone is a Private Equity investment company investing in both startups and mature businesses. Among its investments ...

New frontiers in education: A student’s perspective

By Druvinka Samuel Uncertainty has been an overriding theme of this year, disrupting major plans be it personal, professional, educational or otherwise. And with the year about to come to a close ...

Does Church need to be reinvented?

By Cecil Roche When online shopping took off in the early 1990s, it changed the entire landscape of the retail industry. Retailers had to reposition their products to compete in a global market ...

Colombo’s Ghost Kitchens: Can they be a viable industry?

The COVID-19 lockdown created a great disruption in the market, making significant changes in the way we work and live. While the negatives of this far outweigh the positives, we have little choice ...

A Colombo Roche goes to Tuticorin

Visiting the land of my ancestors had always been one of my dreams since my school days. Finally, in April 2018, I got the opportunity to tick that off my bucket list after an unforgettable trip to ...

The reset button: COVID-19 versus the Fourth Industrial Revolution

There seems to be a connection between the current pandemic and the 4th Industrial Revolution. According to the World Economic Forum, 4IR represents a fundamental change in the way we live, work ...

Managing our digital economy is high priority

Ajit Gunewardene is the Founder/Chairman of Bluestone Capital Ltd. Bluestone is a Private Equity investment company investing in both startups and mature businesses. Among its investments are ...

Covid-19

Ayurvedic therapy in the age of COVID-19

By Druvinka Samuel The acute awareness of global imbalances that has closely trailed behind the outbreak of COVID-19 has deconstructed any semblance of...

COVID-19 solutions on a zebra crossing

By Tyron Devotta In this relentless battle against COVID-19, there are two types of fighters; one that is waiting for the vaccine and the other that is...

Can clusters help our battle against C-19?

Normative controls might be the answer

What it’s like to be an International Student in Australia during the lockdown

Sahana Nandakumar writes from Sydney “There needs to be more consideration for international students who have contributed a significant amount to the...

Tamil Baila reaches out to vulnerable communities in lockdown

Dunstan Mani has a reason for choosing to communicate the all-important message of staying safe from the coronavirus through Baïla. This song is...

'Every Praise to our God’ in the new normal

Evangelical church congregations are usually very robust, buoyant, and physical in their worship. Raising hands, shaking hands, kissing and hugging...

Education

New frontiers in education: A student’s perspective

By Druvinka Samuel Uncertainty has been an overriding theme of this year, disrupting major plans be it personal, professional, educational or...

A new look at Freshers' Orientation at SLIIT this year

With online education becoming a world phenomenon post the COVID-19 outbreak, higher education institutions around the world are concentrating on...

The Reset Button: Attitude change the key for remote learning

With online learning now becoming not just an option but a must do, many education institutes are going through the learning curve of moving to the...

The Art of Living Dangerously

“If you teach a child art properly, you are teaching the child to get out of the box, to move out of its set parameters, and to live dangerously.” She...

SLIIT was prepared from April last year

SLIIT has been planning their online lecture platform since 21 April 2019. Vice Chancellor of SLIIT, Prof. Lalith Gamage said the Easter attack got...

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat by St. Peter's College

by Nadeesha Perera (scroll down to view the video) Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “Joseph and the Amazing Technicoloured Dreamcoat” directed by Jehan...

Value Chain

Colombo’s Ghost Kitchens: Can they be a viable industry?

The COVID-19 lockdown created a great disruption in the market, making significant changes in the way we work and live. While the negatives of this...

Blackballing Suppliers will be the Trend for Consumers in the future

Though Sri Lanka’s Consumer protection laws might be well established, the average Sri Lankan is not much inclined to take on a fight when dealt...

Colombo’s Urban buyer settles for Home Deliveries

What was initially a panic buy from supermarkets to survive the COVID-19 lockdown in Colombo, has now changed into a fairly streamlined purchase...

Megapolis Minister Speaks on Port City

Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka, addressing the media at a recently held press conference called by the Megapolis Ministry, said (scroll down to...

Stakeholder management in handling public affairs

It was a fiasco when the Ministry of Trade attempted to get traders to transport their vegetables in plastic crates. The idea in itself is not a bad...

South Asian ports need synchronised development

With the opening dates of terminals in the Colombo South Harbour Project in Sri Lanka and Deep Water Container Port in Pakistan now set as 2013 and...

History

Finding the Ghosts of our Past

Slave in a PalanquinBook Review by Tyron Devotta Nira Wickramasinghe’s latest book is a powerful expose of the slave trade in colonial Ceylon. Her...

The Mystery Origins of the Paravas

By Tyron Devotta There is a reason the Paravas blend so well into any country which they choose to live in, and that’s because they have mostly been...

Ancient Lions of Sri Lanka and China - a Port City Perspective

By Tyron Devotta The June 2021 page of the Port City Colombo calendar showcases two big cats, the Yapahuwa lion (Sri Lanka) on the page left and the...