Like the Nehrus in India, ruling Sri Lanka has been the family business of the Bandaranaikes.
It was curtains for Sri Lanka´s mother-daughter political act when Sirima Bandaranaike who
Chatting to a journalist at a recent National Day party in Colombo, a newly arrived high commissioner mentioned that she had not yet presented her credentials. "You'd
The Sri Lankan Henry Miller, a Burgher with a German first- and surname and a to-hell-with-it attitude, says he will continue to write, furiously.
Carl Muller, undoubtedly Sri Lanka´s
This Sri Lankan man is able to bring pleasure to millions with his knack for running zoos. He also saves wild elephants.
"I've spent the best years
The sarong is no longer in purdah in Sri Lanka.
For Anglicised Sri Lankan men, who comprise the majority of the country´s professional, business, social and political elite, the
Some call him a pirate, others say he is just a shrewd businessman. He has made money by plucking satellite programmes off the satellite channels.
Nahil Wijesuriya, a 51-year-old self-made
In the days following independence from the British, Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) was truly an island of serendipity, deserving the name of Serendib that had been bestowed upon it by
