I am deeply saddened to hear the news of the passing of Mangala Samaraweera, a former Minister and a leading politician in Sri Lanka.
Mangala Samaraweera's untimely demise is a great loss to the nation, the United National Party and to me, personally.
Mangala, my dearest friend, brother, comrade-in-arms.
It was early 2005, a few months after I had been made the CEO of Rivira Media Corporation.
Manouri Muttetuwegama has passed away. She has been in the left movement as an activist in the Samasamaja Movement and continued to uphold the struggle for justice, a core value of the left.
Life is about meet and depart, hello and goodbye. And so we meet all kinds of people.
By Krishantha Prasad Cooray
Wilfred Owen, among English poets in the early part of the 20th Century, wrote about war’s futility.
Despite all praise for the first countrywide lockdown with curfew imposed from end March to mid May 2020 in controlling the first wave, the COVID-19 virus did spread gradually to create a large second wave in early October from Brandix factory in Minuwangoda and in a week from the Peliyagoda fish market.
