By Uditha Devapriya (with Uthpala Wijesuriya) Something always seems to compel me to return to Kurunegala. It’s a land of contrasts, contradictions, and convulsions. The heat, to be sure, can be unbearable, and in April it’s particularly so. Despite such niceties, though, I have visited it much more than any other place or region outside […]
By Uthpala Wijesuriya The Royal-Thomian or the Battle of the Blues, the world’s second oldest uninterrupted cricket battle, will unveil for the 144th consecutive year this week. The encounter pits the boys bearing the crests of the Elephant and Palm Tree against those bearing the Cross and Dove. The Royal-Thomian is in many ways greater […]
(A part of this article was deleted due to a technical error, last week. It is reproduced in full today. We regret the error.) By Uditha Devapriya (with Uthpala Wijesuriya) Most accounts of education reform in British Ceylon focus on officials and administrators, rather than the people on the ground and the historical forces […]