Sunday Observer 80th Anniversary:

Eighty years in print

The Sunday Observer, Sri Lanka's English newspaper with the largest circulation will celebrate its 80th Anniversary, tomorrow. The Observer as it was known then was founded on 4th February 1928. The paper started as the Sunday Observer and Commercial Advertiser on 4th February, 1834.

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We are 80 years today:

Eight decades in the lead

The ground work starts with the Thursday morning meetings presided over by the Editor-in-Chief Dinesh Weerawansa and the Senior Associate Editor, Lionel Yodasinghe and in the process, at times the briefing develops into a fierce battle by Saturday morning. It continues until the Late City edition. All are busy bees till that time. The small break would provide a little relief after the provincial edition rolls off the Press.

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Some thoughts for the Galle Literary Festival:2009 :

A Change of skies and change of directions

As the 2008 Galle Literary Festival has closed the curtains, now it is of no use to pass judgments whether it was a great success or not and whether Gore Vidal and Vikram Seth were impressed with our Dutch architecture in the Galle Fort etc. We learnt that the organising committee is meeting soon to discuss the structure and the format for the 2009 GLF. We are happy to give some thoughts in this regard.

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