Ready to serve

Brave women sailors take up the challenge...
 

This is the country of great women in the calibre of Vihara Maha Devi and Rathanavali. Those who dig into the history can find heroines who prevailed during turbulent times of history. To emulate their courageous feats and to follow in their footpaths, the Sri Lankan Navy recruited 99 brave Navy women sailors who passed out from the Gemunu Navy Base at Welisara on November 29.

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What am I? Who am I?

A walk on the wild side; an identity crisis

Ashok Ferrey's latest book of short stories, "The Good Little Ceylonese Girl", has just hit the bookshops, a guaranteed belly-laugh for anyone feeling low in the run-up to Christmas. In it, as the blurb on the back cover says, he takes us once more for a walk on the wild side of the Sri Lankan psyche, exploring situations of Sri Lankans both at home and abroad, who continue to ask, Who am I? What am I?

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A music legend of our times...

Tenth death anniversary of Clarence Wijewardene

Ten years ago, the date was December 13. Number thirteen; some say is unlucky to some. The previous day he showed no signs of bidding goodbye. But, in the early hours of that thirteenth day, the One Above decided that he should write, compose and sing those beautiful melodies to the angels over there. The stubborn fact of our mortality is brought to our homes most forcefully when somebody known to us dies at a relatively young age.

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