2021-07-23 13:19:00
The Covid-19 Pandemic may not be everyone’s favourite topic at the moment, as it devastated a lot of people’s lives in the worst way possible. But for Pramitha, the global contagion was but a blessing in disguise in his fingertips, a doorway to creativity discovering masterpieces of art. Acknowledge that the pandemic itself is a major setback against the development of people, but it also allowed some of them whose confined spaces were barring th..
2021-07-21 23:09:00
It was in 2010 when the interior designer Dean Sharpe first glimpsed the crumbling mansion on the Sri Lankan hillside near the town of Weligama. In its glory days, Halala Kanda — known as Firefly Hill to locals — played host to guests such as Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie and the legendary Australian cricketer Keith Miller...
2021-07-18 08:12:00
Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, Beryllium, Boron, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Fluorine…I kept muttering to myself that too using the song Hi, Hello, Little, Benny and the many other songs that we learnt to help us remember the elements...
2021-07-09 20:40:00
When I’m dead. Your tears will flow But I won’t know Cry with me now instead...
2021-07-04 18:55:00
Give me your cold hand Sivadeepn! When I come on the path of Palmira leaves in Kareyi Town, with that tipsy unknown Songs and raw smiles, shoot me again!..
2021-05-10 11:48:00
I have written this book on my inexplicable experiences for six years as a prisoner of several penitentiary settlements in Sri Lanka, which commenced exactly 50 years ago...
2021-04-24 16:06:00
Bollywood composer Shravan Rathod has died shortly after testing positive for Covid-19, his family has confirmed...
2021-03-28 18:21:00
The NFAI in Pune is ready to preserve Sri Lankan movies in their archiving Facility. Following the discussions held between Sri Lanka Consul General in Mumbai Chamari Rodrigo and Head of the NFAI Prakash Magdum in December 2020 regarding possible collaboration between India & Sri Lanka in the area of film archiving and restoration, NFAI would collaborate in archiving 20-30 Sri Lankan movies...
2021-03-08 19:45:00
The Rhythm and time are two separate things which have connections between each other. In that sense, Rhythm could be introduced as one aspect of Time...
2021-01-29 19:40:00
Actress Cicely Tyson, who specialised in portraying strong Black women caught up in life’s struggles during a 60-year career that earned her three Emmy Awards and a Tony Award, died on Thursday at age 96, her manager said in a statement...
2021-01-29 16:18:00
Veteran writer Dominic Jeeva, who played a pioneering role in enriching Sri Lankan Tamil literature as well as introducing Sinhala literature to Tamil readers, has passed away yesterday (28). Born in 1927, he was 94 years old at the time of his death...
2021-01-23 16:22:00
Adele has reached a divorce settlement with her ex-husband Simon Konecki nearly two years after they separated...
2021-01-02 19:10:00
Wham’s Last Christmas has finally topped the UK charts - 36 years after its release...
2020-12-30 16:55:00
Cardin, who upended fashion styles in 1960s and 70s with futuristic looks, dies in hospital near Paris..
2020-12-26 15:01:00
Acting legends Sean Connery and Kirk Douglas, sports stars Jack Charlton and Diego Maradona, forces’ sweetheart Vera Lynn, Black Panther hero Chadwick Boseman and TV presenter Caroline Flack - we have said goodbye to many famous faces in 2020...
2020-12-26 14:45:00
You know who you are, thank you for my friends, both old and new, that I love and love me back. Those that have stayed in touch and that have touched my heart...
2020-12-19 14:11:00
A nine-year-old boy has made nearly $30m in a year from “unboxing” and reviewing toys and games on YouTube to hold the title of highest-paid YouTuber for the third year running...
2020-12-18 19:40:00
Actor Jeremy Bulloch, who played Boba Fett in the original Star Wars trilogy, has died aged 75...
2020-12-14 13:28:00
British espionage writer John le Carré has died aged 89, following a short illness, his literary agent has said...
2020-12-08 19:53:00
My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.”..
2020-11-25 20:55:00
Penguin Random House announced on Tuesday that former President Obama’s memoir ’’A Promised Land’’ had sold more than 1.7 million copies in its first week...
2020-11-11 19:02:00
What is the conservatorship and why was it set up?..
2020-11-07 10:08:00
Johnny Depp has left the Fantastic Beasts film franchise, days after losing a libel case over a newspaper article which called him a wife beater...
2020-11-02 16:25:00
Pirates Of The Caribbean star Johnny Depp was unable to convince the High Court he was not violent towards ex-wife Amber Heard...
2020-10-31 18:54:00
Sir Sean Connery has died at the age of 90, his family has said...
2020-10-30 14:37:00
Canada has picked Deepa Mehta’s Funny Boy, an adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai’s coming-of-age novel of the same name, to represent the country in the 2021 Oscar race in the international feature category...
2020-10-20 13:02:00
Arundhati Roy’s literary career has been one of a kind. Thrust into the limelight of the global publishing industry back in 1997 when her debut novel, The God of Small Things, won an advance of half a million pounds and then the Booker prize, she might have gone on to become a household name of cosmopolitan novel writing in the way that Salman Rushdie and Kazuo Ishiguro had in the decades before...
2020-10-17 20:29:00
Vijay Sethupathi agreeing to play Sri Lankan spin legend Muttiah Muralitharan in the biopic 800 has caused a political uproar in Tamil Nadu...
2020-10-11 10:23:00
The lines reflect on the deep anguish that a widow suffers and what goes in her mind when she has to deal with the irreparable loss in her life...
2020-10-08 23:21:00
Louise Glück has won the 2020 Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday. The judges cited “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”..
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