Reconciliation and Peace

The feast of Easter is the most important feast in the Liturgical calendar. All other liturgical feasts, including Christmas, are focused towards this and get their meaning from Easter. St. Paul put this succinctly when he wrote that "If Christ has not been raised then our preaching is in vain, and your faith is in vain" (1 Cor 15:14) In this feast we commemorate Our Lord's rising from the dead. And this is the basic tenet of our faith.

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The Anura phenomenon

Anura Priyadarshi Solomon Dias Bandaranaike (15. 2. 1949 - March 16. 3. 2008):

Befitting to a son of two Prime Ministers, Anura disposition within and outside the precincts of Parliament was gentlemanly to the very sense of the word, an undisputed fact which won him the admiration both of his friends and foes. It was said that when the message of Anura's birth was conveyed to his father Prime Minister S.W.R.D Bandaranaike, he was at the foot of Sri Maha Bodhiya. Bandaranaike named his son after the great city of Anuradhapura.

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Remembering Gamini Fonseka:

Has Sri Lankan Cinema derived the inspiration from the colossus?

Although Gamini Fonseka's larger than life image is absent on the silver screen, Sri Lankan cinema still felt the void created by his demise, especially at a time the film industry faces an image crisis. Gamini's powerful role both as an outstanding actor on the screen and a person with a strong-willed character in real life should be measured against the milieu he was born into and he grew up in.

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