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How National Budgets Are Prepared (Or What To Keep In Mind This Week)

For the days following November 10, you can expect all your local media outlets to concentrate their energies on a single subject: the national…

Budget 2017: Education Down, President’s Expenditure Up

The country gears up this week to hear the reading of the 2017 Budget, which is to be presented in Parliament on Thursday (November…

Know Your Yoga

The year may be drawing to a close, but it still isn’t too late to take control of your mind and body, we think….

Hambantota No Longer Hopeless?

The Government of Sri Lanka, riddled as it is with a crippling debt and balance-of-payment crisis, has in desperation decided to sell 80% of…

Seven Cool Facts From Sri Lanka’s Aviation History

When you read of futuristic supersonic bombers capable of out-racing missiles, or see pictures of billion dollar spaceship-like stealth aircraft, it’s pretty hard to…

Pandit Amaradeva: A Life In Music

To most Sri Lankans, the name “Amaradeva” is as familiar as the voice of the man who carried it. Pandit W. D. Amaradeva, who…

Breaking Down Lankan Hip Hop ‒ Vol. 2

To say that rap music in Sri Lanka has reached unprecedented new heights since we published our first breakdown just a few months ago…

The Plight Of Sri Lanka’s Special Needs Children

Put yourself in the shoes of a little girl being denied a bus ride because the driver claims she looks ‘evil’, or a little…

A Day In The Life Of A Vegetable Vendor

See how a vegetable vendor in Pettah lives and works.

Skanda Shasti: A Fast For Success And Well-Being

Sounds of the Melam and Nathaswaram resonate around the walls of the beautifully decorated Kovil as the priest conducts special poojas for deities lavishly…

Coping With COPE

It’s already yesterday’s news that the Parliamentary Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) chaired by JVP MP Sunil Handunnetti last week concluded that Former Central…

Lanka In Literature

For a country that has, for centuries, been referred to by a variety of names by the rest of the world – among them…

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