Among these were DC and DR; DC, the author of the Revolt in the Temple, DR (Don Richard), the founder of the Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd. (Lake House).The others achieved distinction in ...

This was a perfect illustration of how the PLO delegitimised Israel’s image outside the Middle East. Closer ties between Israel and Sri Lanka were restored after 1977 under Sri Lanka’s first Executive ...

Then came the year 1977, and with it, the hour was nigh, and the man did enter.He was none other than Junius Richard Jayewardene.His journey to political stardom was slow and steady, perhaps aided by ...

In “Hitler’s People,” the renowned historian Richard J. Evans takes a biographical approach to the Third Reich.

The ascension of Junius Richard Jayewardene to the premier seat of poitical power in 1977 paved the way for a drastic transformation of Sri Lanka’s politico-economic landscape and environment. J.R.

Junius Richard Jayewardene was born on September 17, 1906 to a family of judges and jurists. His father Justice E.W. Jayewardene was a judge in the Puisne Court of colonial Ceylon in an era, where the ...

Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures, demanding a departure from the conventional playbook. The sagacious strategy of Premadasa Sr. during his interactions with Junius Richard ...

They are certainly not the kind of drug that abrasive State Minister Diana Gamage has been promoting for over one year in the hope the dollars will flow in while the Ganja flows out and we can all get ...

He joined the Ceylon National Congress and became its joint secretary along with Junius Richard Jayewardene. In 1936 he was elected to the State Council at the age of 25 from the Dedigama constituency ...

Stability for rapid economic development seemed to be the dominant consideration of the framers of the new constitution. Jayewardene himself pleaded for the need to establish political stability and ...