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සිවුමංසල කොලූගැටයා #56: විශ්වයේ අන්තිම සිංහල වචනය?
This is the Sinhala text of my Ravaya newspaper column published on 4 March 2012. Today, I talk about the gold-plated disk containing sounds and images of our Earth that was sent to the universe with...
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සිවුමංසල කොලූගැටයා #57: ශ්රී ලංකාවට හඳ අහිමි වූ සැටි
This is the Sinhala text of my Ravaya newspaper column published on 11 March 2012. Today I write about How Sri Lanka Missed the Moon. I wrote an English article in July 2009 covering the same ground,...
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Neil Armstrong (1930-2012): A Child of Apollo Salutes His First Hero
In her debut novel The Moon in the Water (2009), Lankan author Ameena Hussein uses a memorable line to describe her protagonist’s many dilemmas: “Her generation had the burden of being the link between...
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Shattered Sky: New film on climate advocacy lessons of ozone protection
An invisible compound threatens Earth’s life-support systems, with effects so pervasive that scientists sound the alarm, businesses must innovate, politicians are forced to take action—and American...
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Who will defend Earth? Interview with M Moidel, filmmaker of ‘Planetary...
In December 2008, when talking about Earth-threatening asteroids, I referred to Planetary Defense, an excellent documentary film made by Canadian filmmaker M Moidel, who runs the Space Viz production...
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සිවුමංසල කොලූගැටයා #144: ටෙලිවිෂන් යුගයේ මුල් ම ජන නායකයා –ජෝන් එෆ්. කෙනඩි
In this week’s Ravaya column (in Sinhala), I look back at the world’s first President of the Television Age – John F Kennedy. How did he ride the airwaves to the hearts and minds of American voters?...
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සිවුමංසල කොලූගැටයා #157: ජීවිත කාලයම පිටස්තරයකු වූ ඇල්බට් අයින්ස්ටයින්
My column on Einstein’s obscure visit to Ceylon in October 1922 was well received, and some appreciative readers asked me to look at the human being behind the intellectual. So, in this week’s Ravaya...
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ක්රිව 2500දී පෘථිවිය දෙස බැලීමක්: ආතර් සී ක්ලාක් ලියු අවසාන කෙටිකථාව
In his last published short story, written only a few months before his death, Sir Arthur C Clarke envisioned a world without religions by the year 2500. Yes, ALL organised, institutionalised religions...
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සිවුමංසල කොලූගැටයා #241: හැට වසරක් පුරා එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ ලාංකික ලකුණ
On 24 October 2015, United Nations marks its 70th birthday. A few weeks later, on 15 December 2015, is the 60th anniversary of Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) becoming a member state of this inter-governmental...
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BBC Sinhala interview after US Presidential Election 2016: සමීක්ෂණ හා සෑබෑ...
Within hours of the US Presidential Election’s results becoming known on 9 November 2016, I gave a telephone interview to BBC Sinhala service. They asked me how almost all the opinion polls did not see...
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