Tag: Leisure

Vilma Wimaladasa One of the charms of the island is its infinite variety, wrote Leonard Woolf more than eighty-odd years ...

Amarani Goonetilleke In the 1950s, Sri Lankan cinema was in a sad condition. Story lines, scenery, dances, songs and music ...

Mil Sansoni The magpie robin is generally considered a bird of ill-omen-and all because this unfortunate bird is dressed in ...

Derick McGroarty Most flights from Britain to Sri Lanka are timed for early morning arrival at Colombo airport. After a ...

The aquarium exhibit in any tropical zoo is always a treat. An enthusiastic aquarist does not have far to look ...

It was not far back that Colombo was described by many as the "Garden City of the East." Even in ...

Ashok Abharana It's such a dazzling collection you could spend the greater part of a whole morning admiring it, was ...

Lucien Rajakarunayake If the road to Kandy is full of promise, arrival there is promise come true. After the commercial ...

Florence Ratwatte We prepare for this springtime revelry rather early in the year. Or rather the koel, popularly accepted in ...

A programme of Night-time Entertainment Some people seem to be under the impression that there isn't a great deal of ...