“A mother’s joy begins when new life is stirring inside; when a tiny heartbeat is heard for the first time, and a playful kick reminds her that she is never alone.” What is possibly the best gift to a mother? Undoubtedly it is her children, and have you ever imagined how a mother feels when […]
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වරද නම් කාගෙද?
බාගෙට ලියූ සටහන් නවා තුන්පිට කරකවා ඇඳුරුන් දිහා බලමින් මුහුණු ඇත කීපයක් ශාලාවේම මැලවුණු බරවුණු යමකි ඇස්වල නිදිමතට එහා ගිය… අවසන සියක් දේශන යලිදු පා නගයි කොන්ක්‍රීට් කූඩාරමට දැන් ඒක නිවහන ය… සුවඳ බත් නොඉදෙන ඕවිටේ මල් නොපිපෙන වැලි මිදුල් නොපෙනෙන “පුතේ” හඬ නොඇසෙන කට්ටම කට්ට කළුවරට විදුලි එළි පමණක්ම එබෙයි තනි නොතනියට… නොකෙරූ වරදකට […]
உழவர் திருநாள்
அன்னையின் அன்பை போல் அகிலத்தில் ஈடில்லை அதிசயங்கள் ஆர்ப்பரிக்கும் அவள் எமக்கு ஒளி தந்தாள் அழகி அவள் சுட்டெரிக்கும் தீ அவளின்றி உலகில்லை அரம்பை தந்த அனைத்துக்கும் அதிகாலை நன்றி செல்லும் நன்நாள் இது ஆசை மிகு வாழ்க்கைக்கு ஆரமிட்ட உழவனுக்கு நாம் ஆவலுடன் நன்றி சொல்லி ஆதிமுதல் பொங்கலிட்டோம் இன்பமுண்டு துன்பமுண்டு இருப்பினும் இனிப்பு உண்டு உறவுற்று மகிழ்ந்திருவோம் By Rtr. Dilakshan Vijenthirakumar Image Credits:
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2023!
New Year’s Eve can be the ideal time for us to look back primly at the road we walked for an entire year, to reminisce upon the spent time, old smiles, victorious milestones as well as on the days when we hit the rock bottom, not to mention the hardest days of all. Assuredly, it […]
නැවතුනෙමි…
නුපුරුදු ම සුවඳක පැටලී… මන්මත්ව… සිහිනෙකැයි නොදැන… කඩා වැටෙන තරුවකට රැවටී… පැතුවෙමි… ඉටු නොවෙන පැතුමන්… දැවටී උණුහුමක නොලැබී… ස්පර්ශයක්වත්… හිමිකමක් නොපතාම අවසන බැඳුණෙමි… ගලවාගත නොහී… පැටලුණු සිත් අරුතක් නැතිව… නැවතුනෙමි සුසුමක… මතකයක එල්බ ගෙන… අහිමි වුණු හිමිකමක… By Rtr. Nadeesha Madurangi Image Credits: https://tinyurl.com/ut7ftuau
Setting a Wheel of Change in Motion
One hundred and seventeen years ago on the 25th of February 1905, a lawyer from Chicago, Illinois along with three of his business acquaintances gathered at a small office in downtown Chicago to create a service club to help elevate the infrastructure and develop facilities for their community. Paul Harris – the lawyer – along […]
The Magical Christmas
Christmas is the most awaited festive season of the year that comes in the cold December. It is such a magical time filled with joy and happiness. The Christmas Carols, pretty decorations, beautiful gifts, and Christmas trees give us the pleasant vibe of the season. Christmas is about the birth of Jesus Christ. A story […]
A Journey towards Success – Akhankara ’22
My first day of teaching in Akhankara started on the 3rd of September, marking another special experience in my life with Rotaract. It was a splash of curiosity and excitement for me; what type of a new experience it would be, and how I was going to commit to that day. The previous night was […]
Dignity, Freedom and Justice for all…
“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.” Nelson Mandela Every person has the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and torture, the right to believe in any religion, the right to work and for education, the right to equality between men and women, and freedom of opinion […]
Story of a Soul
She smelled of roses both soft and strong Whose rarest essence lived in her thorns Untouched, unbrushed, unspoiled, unworn A blossoming beauty, the break of dawn A season’s blossom, the summer’s song A starlight glittering midnight soul She sways like a flower in the winds of her dole Lightly O’ lightly she bears along As […]
A Day to Remember – 20TH INSTALLATION CEREMONY
The 28th of August, a graceful Sunday evening, all the Rotaractors of the Faculty of Science, University of Colombo dressed impeccably in suits and sarees gathered at the Disaster Management Centre. It was the 20th Installation Ceremony of the Rotaract Club of Faculty of Science: The day of appointment of the new BOD headed by […]
Mon Ami…
“It’s the first one in town”, his father mused with glee, while young Eddie stared at a strange box which he learnt was supposed to show magic. A kind of magic that left jaws open with how impossible seemed possible. “Humans inside that box?”, he questioned. Because how could a 6ft man fit inside […]
නාඳුනන කවියා…
තුම්පනෙන් අහුලගත්සේකරගෙ කවියකින් කෑල්ලක් ඉරාගෙනපෙට්ටිත් පුරෝගෙනකදමලුත් බැදගෙනඅතෑරියා පිටු උඩටහිතේ තිවු පදවැල්… වරක් දෙවරක් නම් බැරියැවැරදුණු පදපේලිගලපමින් ගොත ගොතාලිවු කවියවිසිකළා අහසටදෙන්නට කෙනෙක් නොවූ තැන… මාසෙකට පස්සෙ එද්දි ඒ පාරෙන්ගොඩවැදුණා තේ කඩේකටහදා තිබුණා මලක්කඩේ කෙල්ලගෙ මේසෙ උඩඇහැගැටුණෙ නිකමටඒ තිබ්බෙ කවිමලක්…හැඩට අපූරුවට තනාපු මලක්මගේ කවිකොලෙන්… By Rtr. කණිෂ්ක සෙනරත් Image Credits: https://tinyurl.com/24yrvkcw
Northern Lights
In the long winter nightsAmidst the foggy skiesYou might see these glamorous lightsTaking you by surpriseDazzling colors full of mysteryBlue, green and pinkSpread across the midnight skyWon’t even let you blinkA painting done by the fairiesIn their canvas which we call skyOr proof of an alien speciesOf which we have not yet come byA sight […]
Everything and Nothing
Come sit with meAnd let’s talk aboutLove and lifeAnd how infinity never endsAbout how beautiful colours areAbout your childhood friendsAbout space and timeAnd what’s there beyond the starsAbout your favourite musicAnd what makes you who you areAbout how you feel whenSomeone tells you they love youAbout you and your storyAnd all the things you’ve been […]
සිඳුණු විල්තෙර
සිඳී ගිය විල්තෙර මැකුණු සිත්තම් අපමණ මතකයන් තවම ඇත වස්සානෙ පෑයූ සඳක… වැහි බර ගොම්මනක දහස් පියුමන් බලා ඉද්දී මාළු රංචුන් පොදි ගණන් මුකුළු කෙරුවා තාම මතකය… හැකිවේද දියබිඳට පරයන්න ඉඩෝරය තෙත් වුණත් විල් පතුල ඉඳහිට වහින වැහි පොදට… ඉඩෝරය පෑයූ සඳ විලට බැඳි සිත තනිකමට… ඉකිබිඳියි තවමත් වස්සානයේ නොපිපි කුසුමට… By […]
The Beauty that turned into A Beast!
It was a busy day for the fishermen who lived by the southern coast of Sri Lanka. The southern coastal line is known worldwide for its pristine beauty. Charlie was a seven-year-old boy who had a reputation for being mischievous and troublesome, yet he was loved by everyone in his village. The village where Charlie […]
The Haunted Halloween
It’s midnight and the moon is high Stars twinkle through the murky sky The light shines down on a simple town With a haunted cemetery where spirits are bound. Their actions in life and death have sealed By god and man, they are damned to never be freed Thus, they wander around whistling cries of […]
Neon Lights
How beautiful it is to be One of those neon lights That light up the paved walkway For beautiful people to pass by Hand in hand Watching the slightest expressions On each other’s face Humming their fondest lines out from a song. And for those who walk alone Without a clear destination With empty […]
I Miss You, Kitty
I often remember the light brown love, I look at the empty milk cup and feel sad everyday, My cute four paws, please forgive Even today I ask “Why didn’t you come?” Though I left home that day, Always wanted to keep you with me. Why jumped out of the vehicle and ran away? Little […]
Epiphany – A seek in the sea of your thoughts
Ever found yourself struck with brilliance while bathing? An Epiphany in the shower? You’re not alone. You’re just one in a million who has experienced what’s popularly referred to as a “Shower thought”. Thoughts that seem mundane and plane in reality dig a little deeper into the retrospect of humanity. Some of which may have […]
Photos for the Future
In the present people do add colours to very old photos of themselves. In the future will we be removing filters from our old photos? It is such a normal thing to take a photo, more like a mandatory thing almost to take a photo or a few hundred photos a day with our technology […]
அதட்டல் மொழி
கலைந்திட மறுக்கும் கனவாக காலையில் விழித்தும் உனை காணாமல் கைகோர்த்து நடந்த காலம் போய் கைபேசி வழியாய் காதல் தட்டி விட்டாலும் திட்டி திட்டி ஊட்டிட தம்பி என்று அதட்டி நீ அழைத்திட தொல்லை என்று நான் சொன்னேன் உள்ளே நீ சிரித்திருப்பாய் உன் பிள்ளை எங்கே என்று உனை பார்த்து ஊரார் கேட்க பெருமையாய் நீ சொல்வாய் என்று நடக்கிறேன் பல்கலை சாலையில் By Rtr. Dilakshan Vijenthirakumar Image Credits: https://tinyurl.com/bdfr9jf6
මතක වැස්ස…
සිහින මායා කැඩපතක දුටු සොඳුරු නිම්මිත වළා මන්දිර තුළෙහි වස්දඬු රාව නංවන මියුරු රස දැහැනක වෙලී… සිටින මා සිත ඔබ මොබ ගොසින් හද විමුතු කරවන රූ සිරී… අමිල රන්සර සේල මුතු ඇඳි නීල නෙත් යුග රාගිනී… එවන් ගී රූ වලින් මත් මා සිහින සිත්තම් කරවමී… සිහින සිත්තම් කරවමින් මා මතක වැස්සක නැහැවුණි… By Rtr. Harith Kulathunga Image Credits: https://tinyurl.com/2mu6a342
Let’s craft a Greener World
Fuels produced based on organic materials can be simply defined as biofuels. Both types of plant and animal waste can be used for this. In everyday life, plant and animal waste are a form of renewable energy that can be used for this. Energy sources such as coal, natural gas, etc., which produce fossil fuels, […]
An Insightful Reflection on ‘What if’: Possible Impossibilities
Out of all the questions that have met my ears repetitively, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” and “What do you want to do in the future?” got methinking the most. Looking back, it certainly is amusing how the answers of the 5-year-old me and the 15-year-old me contradicted. Why do […]
Sparkling Crystals that accompany the Moon
“I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars” Stephenie Meyer, Twilight After a warm shower at the end of a hard day, my eyes were craving the night sky. Without even realizing I was on the balcony gazing at the night sky. That day, the sky seemed so special. The lustrous […]
Today Our Great Sun Retires
Imagine that one day you receive a message on your phone like “Today our great sun retires”. So, you have no indication of impending doom. You panic and wonder, “What will happen now?”. Well only for the first eight and half minutes, nothing will change. As we know, light takes approximately eight minutes to reach […]
If The Sea Could Talk
Sea, the gigantic body of water, spread over miles and miles among the large and small continents has surprisingly amazing shades of blue. It’s an elegant scenery to see the sky-blue meeting the sea blue on its hypothetical edge, which could mesmerize you for a while. Once it’s undisturbed and peaceful we could listen to […]
What if there was no such thing as Gravity?
Have you ever thought about what would happen if you didn’t fall back down when you jump, or even when you throw a ball it went further up without coming back? In the real world, this is not the case. That is because there is an invisible force that pulls us towards the Earth, which […]
Under the France sky
Coffee near the Iron lady attains the pleasure in the whole world at dusk, she looks stunning when looking from the balcony. Heart becomes brighter than sun, when imagining the feeling about trip in Seine River cruise with classical music and Crepes. Lock bridge looks charming, even without love locks. Iron lady with […]
When it’s never about you…
Have you ever felt exhausted because you had to consistently worry about what other people think of you? Well, if that’s the case, welcome to the club of people pleasers. “If you live for their approval, you’ll die with their rejection.” There is a distinction between doing things to be nice and doing things to […]
How would it be when I become old?
Dawn!! It’s all dark and grey… Looking through the misty window, sitting on a black chair, my eyes glitter through the meadow, where I craved playing, enjoyed laughing and used to be busy but joyful. Even now, I enjoy the leaps of happiness while stepping on the grasses, which kiss me gently. Long strides bring […]
Beyond the Horizon
Beyond the horizon lies the world you seek,Away from the grasp even if you peek.Maybe a wonderland glimmering in the dark,Could be a paradise shimmering through the light. Engraved at the will of God,There is no clue from heaven to catch.Life is all about gazing at,The horizon, there is a mystery to match. Lying on […]
Solo traveling: the perfect embrace for your wanderlust soul
One ordinary day, amidst a warm, soothing shower, a fascinating quote crossed my mind: “Once in a while, it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to”. How fun would it be to try solo traveling, I started to wonder, and thoughts came flooding […]
Memories
Drenched all alone, memories overflow… At one point, you feel like you’re on top of the world, smiling like a lunatic, but no one sees it, so, you smile anyway… Then again, pain, of your wounded pierced heart, out it bleeds your tears, and there you lay, underneath your shower of tears. Sometimes bittersweet, happy […]
Lost in the Moon…
Dewdrops in my gloomy heart, drown me into a magical art, Oh! Milky sea, you are so vacuous, Bring back sol, the precious. Falling stars, illuminate the lonely path, The cooling beams, Freshen my pondering soul, Alright, but what’s that dazzling icon? She showered a pleasant smile, Stars started blinking in a while, Where was […]
The Wonder of Emotional Expressions
Emotional Expression…What’s the first thought that strikes you when you see this particular set of words? Something deep and intriguing? Or some simple thoughts related to things that make you happy? Maybe a set of emotions that make you confused about the underlying meaning? Is it something you would have second thoughts about? Well… This […]
On this day and page
Imagine a world where the number of books you read had the same power as the number of followers you had on a social media platform. A world where a favorite book is shared as many times as a social media post. Readers and authors around the world would wield as much power as social […]
Little Things…
She opened the shower, Water poured in, Poured her heart out for a minute, Realized the little things, She lives and breaks for! Little things make her smile, Little things make her laugh, Little things make her worthy, For little things; she lives! Little things make her overthink, Little things make her worry, […]
Emoji: the Universal Language
Emoji, the universal language, You need no words, give it a try! These semantic props from another age, Give your emotions a bly. Save plenty of those keystrokes, Stop groping for a phrase, Emojis portray all sorts, Of beauty and grace. The smirk faced emoji, The dirty pile of poo, Icons of irony, […]
A Legacy Continued…
“We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference” -Nelson Mandela As human children of mother nature, we all are born into this world with a mutual responsibility on our shoulders. By nature, we are divided by different lines and frames drawn around us. […]
The Final Stand : With YOUth
Together we go To build a brand-new home For a nation’s tomorrow Flaring fires of freedom Souls ringing to the calls from above To keep on keeping on… Nature has given it all to Sri Lanka, but corruption has taken it away. You name it, we have it. Amazing food, rich culture, architecture, history, beaches, […]
The Copernican revolution; “Heliocentrism”
What is Heliocentrism??? Heliocentrism is the cosmological model in which the sun is assumed to be at or near the central point, while other bodies (including the Earth) revolve around it. (Britannica, 2019) Before the heliocentric model is been introduced, most astronomers believed that the universe was Earth-centered. During the 4th century BC, both Plato and […]
Soul Confessions, by a Tomato Flower
State: guilty Petals cut of a knife blade, I sit in elegance, In the pinnacle of your rice bowl. I provoke a primal urge: a starvation! Bring zest for life, gusto and felicity! In those mental mists I strike! I’m the best part of the day! (That’s exactly how I felt!) But, at […]
For a Better World – Ralithi 2022
Books are works of the mind that, through the variety of their contents and different forms of human expression, feed our shared intellectual heritage in all its diversity. They are instruments of exceptional creativity, that faculty which enriches every human being. They are tools for freedom: the freedom to think, to express oneself, and, providing […]
Little Wings
“You can’t force people to care about the natural environment, but if you encourage them to connect with it, they just might.” — Jennifer Nini When Vandana Shiva said “in nature’s economy the currency is not money, it is life” when Laurence Overmire said “we are the last generation with a real opportunity to save […]
Wisdom listens: Wise Advice 2.0
“Who do you want to be when you grow up?” is an all-too-common question adults would ask us during our childhood days. As we mature over the years, our dreams of what we want to become may have changed – but the question might still remain. Some of us are unsure about the answer – […]
Reminisce 2.0
“Moments always blossom more beautifully in memories.” The best moments in life don’t come around all the time, once they do, they don’t always last forever, which is why we treasure those moments by making the best memories deep within our hearts and souls. One such day that only comes along once a year for […]
සිය දහසක්
සමුදුරු සා වැව් වැහිදිය රැඳෙනා එක පිට එක නැඟි රැළි සිය දහසක් මුදු නළ ඇසුරේ සැනහී වැනෙනා ගිනි නිවනා වී පැළ සිය දහසක් ලොවක් දකින නෙත් දෙන මේ අගනා පොත්වල ඔවදන් ඇත සිය දහසක් රළු ගල් බිඳෙනා රත් වී තැලෙනා දිවි දිය වී කම්කරු සිය දහසක් ජනබල රාවෙට අනුනද වෙමිනා මෙළවී එසවෙන අත් සිය දහසක් […]
හෙළ අහරවංශය
ආහාර යනු මිනිසාගේ අත්‍යාවශ්‍ය අංගයකි. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ආහාර රටාව සහ පැරණි සංස්කෘතිය ඉතා මැනවින් සහ සම්බන්ධතාවයක් පවතියි. එහිදී බුදු දහම මූලිකාංගයක් වේ. අතීතයේ පැරැන්නන් ආහාර පිළියෙල කිරිමෙහිලා ඉතා වැදගත් සිරිත් විරිත්, චාරිත්‍ර වාරිත්‍ර භාවිතා කර තිබේ. ඊට අමතර ව ආහාර වල පෝෂණීය වටිනාකම් පිලිබදව ද ඔව්හු සැලකිලිමත් වූහ. ඒ බව පැරැණි ඓතිහාසික මූලාශ්‍ර වල මනාව […]
අසීරුම තැන අපි සීරුවෙන්
මේ දිනවල සමාජ මාධ්‍ය ඔස්සේ නිතර අසන්නට ලැබෙන, ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයන් බොහෝ දෙනෙක් ප්‍රිය කරන ගීයක පද පේළියකි ඒ. එසේ ආරම්භයේදීම එම වදන් පෙළ ඔබ වෙත ගෙන එන්නට මා හැඟුණේ එහි ගැබ්ව ඇති ගැඹුරු අර්ථයත්, මෙම ලිපිය තුලින් ඔබ වෙත ගෙන එන්නට බලාපොරොත්තු වන අන්තර්ගතයේ ඇති කාලෝචිත බවත් ගසට පොත්ත මෙන් එකිනෙක තදින් සම්බන්ධ වන නිසාවෙනි. […]
Some days…
Some days Just a little Is enough to hang on A thread of life To moments That keep The blood pumping Some days It just stops In drools of Fear and dread Nothing to hang on Only involuntary breath Some days You just exist Happy face A desolated soul A mind hovering Every emptiness Of […]
Throwback to the kickstart of our year…
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” -Henry Ford- Amidst a global pandemic, our lifestyle has become completely virtual and human interactions have immensely reduced. This was when the current board of officials for the new Rotaract year 2021-22 was appointed. They had been involved in distant learning in […]
Rêves(Dreams), into a French world
Rêves Une fois que c’était Juste un rêve Nous avons vu quand Nos yeux étaient fermés Ça fait des années. On est devenus vite. Mais nos rêves S’était estompé Comme tous les nuageux. À une corde d’argent. Nous espérons qu’ils le feront. Jours meilleurs Dreams Once it was Just a dream We saw when Our […]
Blyton’s Mystery World
Can you remember? The day we found the magic faraway tree In the enchanted woods… Met a lot of fairy creatures With their blinky blonky moods… Once we sailed through the sea To the amazing Kirrin island With the George and her fellows Spent the most mysterious days Of our childhood…. How do we forget? […]
වසන්තය තව දුර ද දුයිෂෙන්
බොහෝ දුර සිට ලියන්නේ මං නුඹේ අල්තීනායි දුයිෂෙන් පොප්ලර් පැළය මට නුඹ එදා දුන් තාම ළපටියි අදත් පෙර මෙන් ඉඳහිට වැඩෙන පුංචි අංකුර සිහි කරාවි ඒ සොඳුරු මතකයන් සිහින තාමත් සිහින පමණයි බොහෝ දුර බව හැඟෙනවා දැන් සිතුනොතින් මට නැවත එන්නට නුඹ තවම අයිලයෙද දුයිෂෙන් දෑස් රිදුනත් බලා ඉඳලම වසන්තය නම් නොඑන පාටයි දිගු කලත් […]
“Let them bloom”
“The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.” – Nelson Mandela Suppose a nation is a body, then its children will make its spinal cord. Just like the body entering a state of permanent paralysis when the spinal cord is injured, how the nation’s future turns out, is in […]
Heritage Mail – A quest for mankind’s greatest achievements
“A person without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots.” – Marcus Garvey Back in time, our ancestors inked the pages of history with their imaginations, dreams, and golden discoveries. They impatiently awaited the moment when their stories were finally unveiled and cherished by the generations that […]
Celebrating Awurudu in style…..with RACFOSUOC
As the sun makes the astrological crossing from the house of Pisces to the House of Ares in the heavens every 13th and 14th of April, the Sinhalese and Tamil communities of Sri Lanka get together to celebrate what is perhaps the most joyous event that takes place in the tiny island. Preparations for the […]
Learn Martial Arts, Learn Life
Man needed various achievements to sustain his existence during evolution. Among them, development in the fields of agriculture, transport, communication, etc was of paramount importance. In doing so, man also had problems with his own safety. As a result of it, each group of men began to practice combat tactics for the protection of their […]
Coast to Coast – The ultimate pen-palling experience
The world is a vast place, abundant with many versatile subjects. For example language, culture, food, clothes, even history and literature, each country or area is diverse and vivid. Ofcourse travel is a passion of many. To explore each aspect of the world in its most raw form and beauty. Watching sunsets light the horizons […]
Letters across the seas
It was around late September that the International Service Avenue called for POC applications for a project that quickly caught my eye. Titled Coast to Coast, the project was supposed to be primarily focused on a Pen Pal program – with the aim of giving the Rotaract club members of RACFOSUOC a chance to connect […]
A Soothing Quest To Hanthana
It was just another ordinary day in my life until one voice message. A message asking me to make a caption, and if I am being honest, I have never been more excited and happier to be asked to make a caption than this one. “A breezy escape, a chance to bond, and a ‘Soothing […]
The Ball
Women in long gowns Filled the hall Swaying in the music Momentously glancing at the gentlemen Nonstop chatter on admiration Sweet compliments filled the air Clanking of glasses against each other Clatter of heels on the wooden floor Gowns pacing off the floor in the melody Disco lights adding grandeur to the beauty around It […]
Valiance
Buddhist monks drank snake venom to confer immunity to snake bites, 17th century China smeared cowpox onto a skin tear to become immune to smallpox and in 1749 the Jenner of Jenners was born. It was 1796 and there was an outbreak of the then deadly smallpox. Scientist Edward Jenner noticed that milkmaids who contracted […]
Penicillin – The turning point of medicine
Dark time … In the past, before penicillin was introduced to the medical society, there was no effective treatment for infections caused by bacteria such as pneumonia, or rheumatic fever. Hospitals were full of people with blood poisoning contracted from even a little cut or a scratch but, doctors did not know any special treatments […]
Ink on Paper & A fluttering heart!
Horizons of human potential and the great achievements they bring out to the world, keep on expanding over years from the Stone age to the stars. Human minds are bringing magic to life, most of which seemed impossible once in history. Our progress as a species in the last one or two centuries has completely […]
A Legacy of Freedom
Education- A human right Our home, the brilliant Carl Sagan’s ‘pale blue dot’ is busy rotating and revolving around yours and my favorite star, and ‘BOOM!’, some human somewhere with a will to reckon with delivers his or her final blow, the dream blow, and our world is never the same. The power of the […]
A Bridge to The Outer World
Man has achieved so many things during his journey of survival. Every achievement has been either a way to lift the man’s living conditions or to do the day-to-day activities much easier. These achievements have been spread in so many fields. Methods of communication can be shown as one of them. As a social animal […]
SMALLER THE BETTER
When you hear the name “nanotechnology” what comes to your mind? Iron man’s helmet? Is, The movie Big Hero Six? or Antman’s quantum realm? Or something sci-fi? Nanotechnology is an advanced branch of science, so advanced even one might think it is science fiction. The word Nano originated from the Greek word Nanos, which stands […]
තෙමඟුලේ අසිරිය
සිද්ධාර්ථ කුමාරෝත්පත්තිය, බුද්ධත්වය, බුද්ධ පරිනිර්වාණය යන උත්තම තෙමඟුල සැමරෙන වෙසඟේ, මේ වෑයම මෙරට බෞද්ධයින් ආමිස සහ ප්‍රතිපත්ති පූජා ඇසුරෙන් වෙසක් උත්සවය සමරන ආකාරය සහ විවිධ බෞද්ධ රටවල එම සංස්කෘතීන්ට අනුව වෙසක් සැමරුම්වල විවිධත්වය සොයා යමින් ඔබේ බෞද්ධ දැනුම් පොතට යමක් එක් කරන්නට යි. වෙසක් දිනයේ සියලු සැදැහවත් බෞද්ධයින් හිමිදිරි උදෑසන ඔවුන්ගේ විහාරස්ථාන වෙත පැමිණ බෞද්ධ […]
Unwinding the helix of genetic discoveries
The world would be a monotonous recycled old newspaper if it were not for the unique flaws and beauties that make each one of us special. Just like how our exceptional characteristics make all of us different from the rest, our unique biological makeup makes each of us one of a kind. One aspect of […]
Beginning of Transportation
“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”~Neil Armstrong~ Early Transportation With the beginning of human settlement, people needed more efficient ways of transportation instead of walking. As animals became domesticated, horses, oxen, and donkeys became transportation elements of man-made tracks. With the growth of trade, tracks often had to be leveled […]
BIRTH OF AN ARTFORM
“Where our eyes are never closing, hearts are never broken and time’s forever frozen, still…” Everyone has something to say, a story to tell, and sometimes words don’t work. You can interpret people’s emotions and situations, sometimes better in a visual capacity, compared to an oral one. Photography allows you to step into somebody else’s […]
Through a different lens: The marvelous invention of lenses
The origin of our species dates back to about 300 thousand years, a relatively short period compared to the 4.5 billion years of our Earth’s geologic history. Through the millennia, mankind has evolved to become the dominant species on the planet. Apart from our complex brains that are the most advanced among animals, we are […]
එනයින් පතමි මුළු හදින් එකම එක පැතුමක්…
බුදුන් තෙමඟුල් සැමරුමක මැද ඈ නමින් දිනක් වෙන් වීම අහඹුවක්ම විය හැකි ද ඉදින් ලියමි කවියක් ආත්මයම දැහැන් ගත වන ඇගේ රුව සිත් දරා ගෙන සැනින් බර විය සිත කෙසේ නම් පද ගළපගන්න ද ඇගේ ගුණ කවි පෙළට ගඟක් උඩුගං බලා ඒවී පිපුණු මල් මුකුලිත නොවේවී දරු පෙම නමින් ඇය පිරූ පෙරුමන්, සියලු සැප අතැර […]
Her surrender
Silent screams inside her head Tears rolling down her face Swollen lips trickling red Arms locked in a tight embrace Her mind a violent turbulent sea Roaring out the pain held deep within Drowning the youth she ought to be Ripping away her soul from skin If only she knew it was a mere moment’s […]
If cyanobacteria could talk, they would say
Waking up in the morning to hear birds chirping, you feel the breeze while you breathe If cyanobacteria could talk, they would say, We tiny souls in trillions of figures in billions of places, quite invisibly, in sullen silence in a mission with a vision to make O2 we strive for all of us to, […]
සාර අඹ රඹ
සාර අඹ රඹ පේර හැම තැන දිලි නුවර උයනක් බඳු ය මලින් එරබදු ඵලින් කජු වලු වලින් සැරහුණු මනාලියක මෙන් වෙසෙස් සිනිඳුව ළපටි කොළ ලන කොහා හඬලන නාදයෙන් මතු රුවන් වන් වී කරල් බරවන ගිරා පොව්වන් දසත විහිදෙන ගඟන සරහා ගිගුම් අරගෙන කරයි මනුසිත් සතුටු හැමකල රබන් වයනා සුරත් ගිනියම් […]
සත්සිත්
“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.” –Franklin D. Roosevelt- Every generation has its own struggles. However, it can sometimes be tough for one generation to relate to another. Moreover, understanding the anxieties and concerns of youth in these times is a minefield like […]
උගත මනා ශිල්පයමැයි …
“තාරුණ්‍යය” වනාහි බොහොම පුළුල් මාතෘකාවක් වූ කල, එහි පැතිකඩ එකින් එක ලැයිස්තුගත කරන විට, අධ්‍යාපනයට නිසැකවම මුල් පෙළ අසුනක් හිමිවෙනවා. උගත් තාරුණ්‍යයක අවශ්‍යතාවය පිළිබඳ කතිකාවත නිර්මාණය වන්නේ මෙතැන් සිටයි. මේ ඊට පිළිවදන් දෙන්නට ගත් එක් වෑයමක්. අධ්‍යාපනය කියන වචනයට පොත්පත්වල නොයෙක් විද්වතුන් දුන්, විවිධාකාර නිර්වචන බොහෝමයක් අපට හමුවෙනවා. නමුත්, ඒ නිර්වචන සෑම එකක්ම වර්තමානයේ දී […]
විසිපහෙන් එකෙක්…
“ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ තරුණ විරැකියා ප්‍රතිශතය 25% ක් දක්වා ඉහළට….” සින්තටික් කරාබුවට ස්ට්‍රේට් කොණ්ඩ සයිඩ් ගහපු කොරියන් හීන දකින අඟලක් නැති විසි පහෙන් එකෙක්.. සද්දෙට කැසට් දාන් එකසිය විස්සට අනුන්ගේ වීල් දුවන මුඩුක්කු හංදියේ විසි පහෙන් එකෙක්.. උජාරුවට ලෝගු දාන් ඩිග්‍රි ගත්ත ලිප්ටන් රවුමේ බෝඩ් අල්ලන විසි පහෙන් එකෙක්.. හිල් වහලෙට බේසම් තියන් ඉරිදා පත්තරේ ඇබෑර්තු […]
Feliz hearts
It was a typical meeting for us, fun and a bit awkward at the same time. I remember someone saying, “Let’s do something nice for Christmas.” And guess what — all of us agreed in a flash. It had been six months since we joined the PR team of the Rotaract Club of the University […]
FUTURE CHALLENGE 2021-22: Where Potential met Professionalism
We’ve said it a 100 times and we’ll say it again, it’s never too late to build a career that you love… This is our story, the victories, the calamities, and the undying memories we made along the walk towards the endgame: Future Challenge 2021-22. Being one of the signature projects of RACFOSUOC, Future Challenge […]
To Bloom Anew Where The Sun Shines Bright…
Those two little buds, White roses were they. White for peace, Though peace was not in their veins. As they dance in the wind, The big happy bush watched them sing. As that same wind hurls, The two buds twist their hands. What the world saw was them fighting. But no! Happy little […]
Ghosts of the past
Reminiscing the good old twenty O five Back when we were young and naive The hide n seeks and the pillow fights Kept flooding over my mind that night. Returning back to our childhood town The nostalgia of familiarity all around Bemused by the consistency then and now A souvenir of friendship and the eternal […]
Mid Twenties
On our way to mid twenties Million things on one mind Days are long or just fly by While we write our lives The days might seem blurry It’s hard to open your eyes The future feels so heavy Your mind secretly cries But never forget the strength in you That you are one of […]
WANDERLUST – exploring the pearl
“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” -Anita Desai As we stepped into the end of yet another year, another holiday to be spent in wary. The ample sunshine, clear blue skies and lush green landscapes invited us to enjoy and explore what was once overlooked, and then thoroughly missed. The breath-catching views […]
பொங்கலோ பொங்கல்
கழனியிலே கதிரறுத்து கதிரவனுக்கு நன்றி சொல்லிதரணியிலே தமிழரெல்லாம் களித்திருக்கும் திருநாளாம்;மாவிலை தோரணம் கட்டி சாணியால் மெழுகிவிட்டுஅழகான கோலமிட்டு புது அடுப்பை வைத்திடுவோம்; புதுப்பானை கழுத்தினிலே இஞ்சி இலை மஞ்சள் இலைபுதுப்பானை நெஞ்சினிலே நீறு பூசி பொட்டிட்டு;பூரணமாய் நீர் நிரப்பி பசும்பாலையும் இட்டுபாளை வைத்து நெருப்பு மூட்டி பக்குவமாய் பானை வைப்போம்; பால் பொங்கி வரும் வேளை பட்டாசும் வெடித்திடுவோம்பால் பொங்கி வழியும் திசை பலனெல்லாம் கூறிடுவோம்;புத்தரிசி புதுவெல்லம் பச்சைப்பயறிட்டு பொங்கல் செய்வோம்பொங்கலோ பொங்கலென்று குலவையிட்டு மகிழ்ந்திடுவோம்! By […]
විලාසිතා මන බඳිනා විලාසිතා
“මේ ලෝකේ ලස්සනම කෙනා මම ද?” “මට වඩා එයා ලස්සන ද?” “මම කැත ද?” මේ ප්‍රශ්න තරුණ අපි, කැඩපතෙන් ඕනෑ තරම් අසා ඇති. ඒ අපි අපේ රූපය ගැන, විලාසිතා ගැන ගොඩක් හිතන නිසා. තුරුණු වයසේදී ඒක බොහෝම සාමාන්‍ය කරුණක්. හැබැයි ඔබ කවදාවත් හිතුවා ද කැඩපත නොහඳුනන ඔබේ රුව ගැන ? මේ කතාව ඒ ගැන යි. […]
Social Media, රියැලිටිය සහ තරුණ අපි
Social media! මේ වචනය ඇහුනම ඉහේ මලක් පිපුනා වගේ දැනෙන අය වගේම, ඒ වචනය හිසරදයක් විදියට දකින අයත් අපි අතර ඉන්නවා. එහෙම වෙන්නේ කොහොමද? ඊට කලින්….. මොකද්ද මේ social media? සමාජ මාධ්‍ය ජාල, එහෙමත් නැත්නම් social media, එදිනෙදා කටයුතු, දැනුම, විනෝදය, වගේ දේවල් එකිනෙකා අතර හුවමාරු කරගන්න යොදා ගන්නා විද්‍යුත් මාධ්‍යක් ලෙස හඳුන්වන්න පුළුවන්. සරලවම […]
මත් මල් යෞවනයට
සිතක් විසිරුව මතක මන්දිර අතර සක්මන් කරන……. විතක් මී සේ බඹර පැන් පොද තෙමා තොල් අතර……. බසක් දොඩවන අරුත් විමසන මතක සේයා අතර…… කුමක් වීදෝ අසම් සක් මඩල මත පියාවිදි විහගුන්ට……….? අරුත් පවසන් කෙසේ මතින් මත් මල් යෞවනයට…….? යෞවනයත් හරියට හංස පිහාටුවක් වගෙයි. සිනිදුව ශ්වේතව තියෙන පිහාටුව මඩට වැටුණු ගමන් අවලස්සන වෙනවා, අප්‍රියජනක වෙනවා. හැබැයි, […]
ආතතියට තිත
දිනෙන් දින දියුණු වන තාක්ෂණයත් සමග පියවරෙන් පියවර ඉදිරියට යන ලෝකයේ, මිනිසා ජයගෙන ඇති දෑ බොහෝ ය. නමුත් කිසිඳු දෙයක සාර්ථකත්වය හෝ අසාර්ථකත්වය පමණක්ම තිබෙනු දක්නට නොලැබේ. අඩියෙන් අඩිය සාර්ථකත්වය කරා පියමනින ගමනේදී ඒත් සමගම මිනිසාට මුහුණ දීමට සිදුව ඇති වක්‍රාකාර ගැටලු හා අභියෝග ද රාශියකි. එම ගැටලු හා අභියෝගවල ප්‍රධානතම ගොදුර බවට පත්ව ඇත්තේ […]
නිදහසේ ඉගිලෙමු
නිදහස…හරි අමුතු දෙයක්…සිර කුටියකට සීමා වෙලා සිටියත් සුළඟ වගේ නිදහසේ ඉන්න මිනිස්සුන්ට පුළුවන්. ඔයත් කැමති ද සීමා මායිම් නැතිව හමා යන සැහැල්ලු සුළං පොදක් වගේ වෙන්න? හැබැයි ඒ නිදහස තියෙන්නේ අපේ සිතිවිලි අතර සැඟවිලා. සිරකුටියේ රාමුවෙන් එහා වෙනස් විදිහට සිතන්න පුළුවන් නම්, ඒ නිදහස සොයාගන්න අමාරු නෑ. ඒත් මොකක්ද මේ රාමුවෙන් එහා කතාව… “රාමුව” තමයි […]
The scintillating dawn of 2022
The silhouettes of our memories both dark and merry,danced around the bonfire of the setting sun of yesterday,The echoes of our laughter synced with the sizzle of the flames,While the occasional tears dimmed down the light away. As the fiery flames fell asleep, and the darkness awoke,A million shades of memories tinged the sunset above […]
Twilight in Paradise
28.05.2010 Yet another stop– another ‘last’ stop. Yet another beach on our 4-day traversion of the eastern coast of paradise. We had already done the rounds of the usual spots– the glamorous ones you see in the brochures in their technicolour glory. This one was to complete the set more than anything else really…Well, off […]
Our Quest to their Calling
Wandering on the verge of extinction are the gentlest species nature ever gifted with life, and not a few. And we are to blame. Forging through the sixth extinction crisis we are almost wholly responsible for, a planet aches for the creatures that are lost day by day. It is evident, that every year, mother […]
හෙළැස
It is said that oil was the primary fuel of the 20th century economy, while creativity is the fuel of the 21st century. Creative industries encourage a broad range of activities that have their origin in individual creativity, skill, and talent and have a potential for wealth and job creation through the generation. Sri Lanka’s […]
A glimpse at the Heart of Deep South
Swooping along the southern coast of Sri Lanka, awaits your ideal stop point, a dry zone with a plethora of unexplored yet-to-be-visited attractions. Being, the perfect blend of religion, history, and nature, Hambantota retains enthusiasm in the tourism industry. With so much to offer, and so much to explore yet many of these striking landmarks […]
A Waterfall Worth Chasing
“This is a waterfall worth chasing”. This was my first thought as I stepped out of our stuffed van, forgetting all about being shoved against the door for most of our drive by my hyperactive siblings. Only the densest person would remain annoyed when faced with the sight in front of me. I was suddenly […]
“Untold perspective of great ALAKA MANDAWA”
Sigiriya rock fortress also referred to as the “LION ROCK “ is undoubtedly the highly attractive and the most captured miracle in Sri Lanka. This miraculous rock is approximately 600 feet in height and is located in the Matale District. There are a number of reasons why this rock has been recognized as a unique […]
Akhankara 2021 makes its first physical appearance
The drizzling Saturday of the 6th of November 2021 marked the 1st physical day of Akhankara, for the 18th consecutive year. Purely out of excitement and from the echo of the pitter-patter outside, I woke up even before the alarm I set last night, after a long group call of planning for the big day, […]
The sacred land of Anuradhapura
If someone asks you what journey you were most amazed on or what journey you felt the most as a Sri Lankan, definitely “The Anuradhapura Kingdom” which is an Ancient capital in Sri Lanka will be among your answers. Now it has become a main stop in any tour. Anuradhapura is an ancient city that […]
Garden City of the East: Colombo, the Lambent Metropolis of Sri Lanka
Walk with me…, it’s the city that surrounds the Lotus that tiptoes to kiss the cloud portals for the heavens…, the busy, bustling yet ever exquisite trade capital of a country that is like no other, and here I promise, you will never want a rest as we proceed, even if I wanted. Once hailed […]
TRINCOMALEE – ‘THE LORD OF THE SACRED HILL’
Resting on the sands of the North-East coasts of Sri Lanka, losing yourself to the tranquility… From ancient temples and forts to breathtaking beaches, Trincomalee is a town that strikes the eye of many discerning travelers. Whether you seek solace at serene Buddhist viharas and Hindu temples or unravel marine mysteries, there’s no dearth of […]
Journey through the Kingdom of Chronicles
Is there a traveler kindled in your heart? Ever wished that you could travel to any location you crave in just one click? Well, the moment you clicked this article open, you have unleashed the gateway to the enchanted Kingdom of Kandy. Read away through the engrossing city, its venues, and the exhilarating sites of […]
A Call from Tranquility
“I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the […]
Ancient City of Polonnaruwa
Polonnaruwa was the second capital of Ceylon. It was named as the capital after the destruction of the Anuradhapura kingdom in 993. In the twelfth century, the megalomaniac sovereign, King Parakramabahu The Great (King Parakramabahu I) created this immense new capital. Polonnaruwa is world reputed as one of history’s most astonishing urban creations because of […]
YALPANAM: THE LAND OF GOD
If you ever wanna travel during the vacation, and still haven’t checked out this amazing God’s masterpiece of land, make sure you gear up your backpacks to explore the warmth of a diverse environment. Warmth!! Of course, it’s sure about the climate, but what I mean is the ‘warmth’ of diverse cultures, eye-catchy traditions, spicy […]
Escape-To a blissful mind
Our globe got soaked in the currents of a disruptive pandemic that defined an era and became such ill that the pressure shocked our souls out from our bodies and mangled our minds, forcing us to search for nothing but our very own selves, in the middle of all these chaos. Thus, adding colors to […]
Isn’t she the Glamorous Lady of Down South?
Sri Lanka has been world-famous for so many reasons. This little island which is situated in the Indian Ocean, to the South of the Indian subcontinent is well known all over the world for its scenic beauty. In this article, let me take you to the South-Western part of this beautiful island, to share the […]
සිරිලක කලාල වරුණ
පුරා කොනින් ලද පැදුරක් වියන්නේ ඉරා එපන් ගෙන සායම් පොවන්නේ සරා මල් ලෙසත් වටකර වියන්නේ රටා සියුම් පන්නන් පත් වියන්නේ පැරණි රජ දවස පටන් ඇසෙන මේ කවිවල මිහිර ගෙන එන්නේ හෙළ සංස්කෘතික මෙන්ම කලාත්මක උරුමයන්හි අරුමය ලොවටම කියාපාන සිහල පැදුරු වියන්නන්ගේ කතා පුවතයි. කඳුකර ප්‍රදේශවල වැවෙන ගැටපන්, පොතුකොළ, ගලහ, තුන්හිරිය, බොරුපන් වැනි ශාක ඇසුරෙන් බිහිවෙන […]
යක් මුහුණේ කතන්දරය
නේකවිධ කලාවන්ගෙන් පිරිපුන් දිවයිනක් ලෙස ප්‍රසිද්ධිය උසුලන ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ තවත් එක් සුවිශේෂී කලා අංගයක් ලෙස වෙස් මුහුණු කලාව අපට හැඳින්විය හැකියි.මෙම වෙස් මුහුණු කලවේ ඉතිහාසය 15 වන සියවස තරම් ඈතකට දිවයයි.ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ මුතුන් මිත්තන් ලෙස හැඳින්වෙන වැදි ජනතාව ද පූජා කර්ම සඳහා ඔවුන්ගේ මුහුණු ,ශරීරය වර්ණ ගන්වා ගෙන ඇති අතර, එය වෙස් මුහුණු කලාවේ මූල […]
බතික් විසිතුරු
නෙත්කලු සිත්කලු පැහැයෙන් විසිතුරු – බතික් මෝස්තර මවනා රූ සිරු කලක් නොසලකා හැර තිබුණ ද ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ බතික් කලාව මේ වනවිට නැවතත් ජනප්‍රිය විලාසිතාවක් වෙමින්, හිස ඔසවමින් ඇති බවක් දක්නට ලැබෙනවා. අපේකම ඉස්මතු වන හෙළ කලාවක් ලෙසින් බතික් කලාව හැඳින්වුවත්, එහි ආරම්භය සිදු වූයේ ඉන්දුනීසියාවේ බවයි සැලකෙන්නේ. කපු,සේද, ලිනන් වැනි රෙදි බතික් රටා ඇඳීමට යොදා ගන්නා […]
The Cycle of Life; Slightly Different but Quite Similar to All
The sun had already set in the western sky, engaging with clouds, creating these amazing paintings that lay upon the sight of Kasun, who was sailing on a canoe, headed to a small islet in the middle of an enormous tank. In this tiny wooden canoe, another man sitting in front of him was piloting […]
වේවැලේ රස කතා
වේවැල් කෝටු නාරං සියඹලා අතු කිතුල් පොල් ඉරටු වැල් කහඹිලියා අතු මේ හැම ඉපල් මගෙ දෑතට නොපෑ යුතු පමා නොවී එමි අකුරට මෙයින් මතු වේවැල් කියූ සැනින් අප මතකයට එන්නේ සුන්දර ළමා අවධියේ දඬුවම් ලෙස ලැබුණු වේවැල් කසායයි. ඒ වේවැල සෑදීම සඳහා යොද ගනු ලබන්නේ වේවැල් නම් ශාකයෙන් ලබාගන්නා කෝටු ය. මෙම ශාකය ආශ්‍රයෙන් නිර්මාණය වූ අත්කම් විශාල […]
දකුණේ ගොතන රටා
දකුණට නුදුරු ගමක ළමා කාලය ගෙවූ මා හට, අත්තම්මා කියාදුන් කතා හොඳ හැටි මතක ය. මැද ගෙයි අල්මාරියේ තිබු බීරළු කොට්ටයේ කතාන්දරය අත්තම්මාගේ කතා ගොඩේ තිබු ආඩම්බර කතා අතර පළමුවැන්න යි. ඉස්සර ලොකු අත්තම්මා වියූ බීරළු ගැන උජාරු කතන්දර එමට ය. ලොකු අත්තම්මා තරගයට වියූ රේන්ද මුහුදු හතෙන් එපිට යන්න, ගාල්ලෙන් නැව් නැග්ග කතා, අයියාත් මමත් […]
INSPO7 – A spin in the Rotary Wheel
A glance at the life beyond the 360 view A reminder to the blinded souls To rethink on things worth working for That’s what Rotaract is all about “I am a Rotaractor”, is something you’ll hear in every nook and corner of your university. The pride you feel is immense. Every time you say it […]
රූකඩ තිරය විනිවිද …
අතීතයේ සිටම මානවයා තොරතුරු හුවමාරු කරගැනීමටත්, තම සිතැඟි අදහසක් අනෙකාට ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමටත් විවිධාකාර වූ සන්නිවේදන මාධ්‍යයන් භාවිතා කිරීමට පෙළඹිණි. මෙසේ තොරතුරු සන්නිවේදනයත්, රසවින්දනයත් එකට මුසුවීමෙන් කතාන්දර කීමේ කලාවක් හා පුරුද්දක් ඈත අතීතයේ සිට අද දක්වාම මානව ඉතිහාසයේ දක්නට ලැබෙන සුවිශේෂි අංගයකි. වර්තමානයේදී ද යම් විවේකයක් ලැබුණු විට, විනෝද චාරිකාවක යෙදුනු විට, ගිනිමැලයක් වටා හිඳගෙන රාත්‍රී […]
DAWN OF A NEW BEGINNING-19th INSTALLATION CEREMONY
“Our story was never about rainbows and butterflies but the obstacles we faced, the challenges we overcame and through it all, the unbreakable bonds we made. However, it was all worth it in the end…” – Rtr. Damindri Herath With those touching lines of the past secretary, the ex-EXCO for the Rotaract year 2020/21 bid […]
රන්මසු දහසක් වටින කලාවක්
වියළි කාලයේ දී සිඳී ගිය වැව් පත්ලට බැස වසර පුරාවටම සෑහෙන පරිදි, කර්මාන්තයට සුදුසු මැටි එකතුකර ගන්නා කුඹල්ලු, ඒවා බෝල කර හිස තබාගෙන සිය කුම්බකාර ගම්මානය වෙත රැගෙන එති. කාලාන්තරයක් තිස්සේ කළ හුරු පුරුදුකම් මත ඒ රතු මැට්ට, වැලි ආදි අවැසි අනෙකුත් කළමනා සමඟ මුහු කොට, දින කීපයක් තැම්බෙන්නට හරිනු ලැබේ. සිහින් පතුරක් සූදානම් කරගෙන […]
බිළාල පවුලේ දඩබ්බරයා
“නල්ලතන්නිය පොලිස් වසමට අයත් ලක්ෂපාන වලාමලෙයි වත්තේ, මන්දකට හසුවී මුදාගත් කළු කොටියා, අද උදෑසන උඩවලව ඇත් අතුරු සෙවණේ දී මියගිය බව නල්ලතන්නිය වනජීවි කාර්යාලයේ නිලධාරීන් ප්‍රකාශ කළා.” එකදිගට සිද්ධවුණ ඝාතන රැල්ලක, අපේ පරම්පරාවෙ තවත් කෙනෙක්ට වුණ ගොඩක් ශෝකජනක ඉරණමක් තමයි මේ. මේ ප්‍රවෘත්තිය ඇසෙන්නේ 2020 මාර්තු මාසයේ දවසක. ඔයාලට දැන් අමතක වෙලත් ඇති . මුලින්ම […]
If Only
Standing strong against the harsh wind and weather, withstanding rapidly fluctuating temperatures and rainfall, bravely surviving the excruciating onslaught of humans, I live to tell the tale of some of the most beautiful creatures that ever walked my branches. From when I was a sapling up till now there have been numerous spiders crawling all […]
The Call of the Sloth Bear
AKA Melursus Ursinus Stories of my ancestors were once passed down for generations, our ferocity and prideful nature respectfully documented into books; bedtime stories made to terrify and humor little human boys and girls, to keep them off the woods. Paintings of us carved and colored onto walls and later canvas. So greatly remembered and […]
Lamia is ADHD
Invisible, yet unmissable. Lamia? Call it ADHD. This is the irony of a disease, that devours the minds of little children, more Lamia than Lamia will ever be. Marking a global prevalence of one for every ten children, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is an elite player, winning behind “spoiled”s, “careless”s, “ashamed”s, and so much more […]
සමුගනීවිද මින්දද
“අප පෘථිවියේ කොටසක් වන අතර පෘථිවිය අපේම කොටසකි. සුවඳැති මල් වර්ග අපේ සහෝදරියෝ වෙති. මුවා, අශ්වයා, රාජාලියා යන මොවුහු අපේ සහෝදරයෝ වෙති. ගිරි මුදුන් මෙන්ම තෘණ බිම් තුලින් රූරා වැටෙන ද්‍රව දහරාවන් ද අශ්වයාගේ හා මිනිසාගේ ගතේ උණුසුම ද යන මේ සියල්ල අයත් වන්නේ එකම පවුලේ සාමාජිකයන්ට ය.”- සියැටල් හුස්ම බෙදන හරිත තුරුලතාවන් ද, ගලා […]
සුවබර හෙටක් උදෙසා අපි…
“නීරෝගී බව උතුම් ම ලාභය යි.” , යනු ශාරීරික හා මානසික නීරෝගී බවේ වැදගත්කම මනාව පිළිබිඹු කරන කියමනකි. මානව සෞඛ්‍ය පිළිබඳ අවධානය යොමු කිරීමේදී මාතෘ හා ළමා සෞඛ්‍ය ඉන් ප්‍රධාන තැනක් උසුලයි.මන්දයත් මව හා දරුවන් යන දෙපාර්ශවයම නිරෝගී නම් ඉන් ගොඩනැගෙන ලෝකය වඩාත් සෞඛ්‍යාරක්ෂිත වන බැවිනි. මවගේ සෞඛ්‍ය පිළිබඳ කතා කිරීමේදී ඇය මවක් වීමට පෙර හා […]
I AM INNOCUOUS. LET ME BREATHE MORE…
“Hola Gente! I am the virtuous Tennent’s leaf-nosed lizard belonging to the family Agamidae, also known as dragon lizards. Being diurnals, our lineage has the perfect vision and is significantly renowned for our crests and embellishments that we mostly use to shoot the breeze, set up and uphold our dominions, and for courtships. Scientists have […]
Maternity
To bring about the world Filled with comfort Arousing the innermost desires God made the beautiful soul It’s Mother She is reborn The moment her blood quivers Making a promise with eternal love For a beautiful Baby Gem Redefining the ecstasy of love Impatiently she waits To see her child Painting her dreams Praying to […]
The threatened wetland bird species in Sri Lanka
You just admire but have you ever been concerned about the threats faced by these wonderful creatures? Their future foretells your future. Sri Lanka is a tropical island rich in biodiversity. Many species of animals such as reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals can be found in Sri Lanka. Of all these birds occupy a special […]
සෙඩ් (CED) ගම්මානයේ රවුමක්!
ආයුබෝවන්! හැමෝම සාදරයෙන් පිළිගන්නවා. “CED”. හරි අමුතු නමක් නේද? අපේ ගමට ඒ නම හැදුණ හැටි, අද ඔයාලට මේ සංචාරයේ දී දැනගන්න පුළුවන්. ඉස්සර අපේ ගමට නමක්වත්, එන්න පාරක්වත් තිබුණේ නෑ. ඒත් දැන් අපිට ඇවිදන් යන්න ගමේම මිනිස්සු එකතු වෙලා හදපු ලස්සන පාරක් තියෙනවා. අර ඈතින් පෙනෙන “Plan Hub” ගොඩනැඟිල්ලේ තමයි අපේ පුංචි පාරාදීසය ගොඩනඟන සැලසුම් […]
My Scales are there to protect ME
Hello, dear human who is reading this. You must be a nature enthusiast or simply just a kind-hearted person if you are willing to listen to the seemingly most irrelevant mammal on earth. But since you’re already here let me tell you my story. I am Manis crassicaudata, but mostly known by my common name, […]
வறுமையை விட கொடியது வறுமையே
உலகெங்கிலும் உள்ள கோடிக்கணக்கான மக்கள் கடுமையான வறுமையில் வாழ்கின்றனர். உலகில் உள்ள ஒவ்வொரு பத்து பேரில் ஒருவர் சர்வதேச வறுமைக் கோட்டுக்குக் கீழே வாழ்கின்றார். அதாவது அறுநூற்று எண்பத்தைந்து மில்லியன் மக்கள் ஒரு நாளைக்கு 1.90 டாலருக்கும் குறைவான பணத்தில் வாழ போராடுகிறார்கள். போதுமான உணவு, சுத்தமான தண்ணீர், முறையான சுகாதாரம், பாதுகாப்பான தங்குமிடம் மற்றும் அடிப்படை கல்வி போன்ற அத்தியாவசிய தேவைகளை அடையவே அல்லல்படும் இம்மக்கள், ஆதரவின்றி பொருளாதார வளர்ச்சி மற்றும் செழிப்பு அவர்களை கடந்து […]
තුරු හිස් සරන නෑයෝ(Toque Macaque)
ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ආවේණික වූ වඳුරන් විශේෂයක් වූ අප ගැන ඇත්තටම ඔයාලා මොනවද දන්නේ ? “රිලවා” කියන නමේ තේරුම ඔයාලා දන්නවාද? ඔයාලා ගොඩක් අය දන්නේ නැතුව ඇති. ඒ වගේ අපේ ලෝකයේ ඔයාලා දන්නේ නැති තව බොහෝ අපූරු දේවල් තියෙනවා. එහෙනම් අහන්නකො අපේ කතාව…. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ආවේණික වූ “ටොක් මැකාක්” (Toque macaque) නැමැති වඳුරු විශේෂයට අයත් ඔබ […]
ප්‍රජා ආර්ථික සංවර්ධනය යනු…
“ප්‍රජා ආර්ථික සංවර්ධනය” (Community Economic Development ; CED) යනු ප්‍රජාවන් විසින් ආර්ථික, සමාජීය වශයෙන් තමන්ගේම ගැටලු හඳුනාගෙන ඒවා විසඳීම ආරම්භ කරන, ප්‍රජා ක්‍රියාවලියකි. සරලවම තමා වෙසෙන ගම්මානයේ, ග්‍රාමීය ආර්ථිකයට බලපෑම් කිරීමට සහ තම ගම්මානයේ වැසියන්ගේ ජීවන තත්ත්වය ඉහළ නැංවීමට ගම් වැසියන්ම එක්ව ගොඩනගන ක්‍රියාවලියයි. මේ ක්‍රියාවලිය ප්‍රධාන වශයෙන් රැකියා උත්පාදනය,ප්‍රාදේශීය ආර්ථිකය ස්ථාවර කිරීම, දේශීය ආර්ථික […]
CHERISH KING TURTLES, BEFORE THEY PERISH!
Have you ever searched out of curiosity for who the crownless king of the turtle world is? If the answer is yes, then the question would have led you to find out fascinating facts; yet if you dug a little deeper, it would be empathy over amazement for sure. He is there, wandering in the […]
நீர் சுகாதாரத்தின் தேவைப்பாடு
“நீரின்றி அமையாது உலகு” இந்த உலகை ஆக்கும் உயிர்களின் நிலவுகைக்கு நீரின் தேவைப்பாடு என்பது வெளிப்படையாக தெரிந்த விடயமே. மனிதர்கள் உட்பட அநேகமான அங்கிகள் இயற்கையில் கிடைக்கும் நீரை காலாகாலமாக நேரடியாக பாவித்து வந்திருந்தாலும் உடற்சுகாதாரம் பற்றிய அறிவின் வளர்ச்சி மற்றும் சனத்தொகை பெருக்கம் என்பனவற்றால் முறையான நீர் சுத்திகரிப்பு வசதிகள் நாகரீக உலகத்தில் இன்றியமையாதவையாகி உள்ளன. உலக சுகாதார ஸ்தாபனம், சுத்தமான குடிநீர் என்பது “மனித வாழ்க்கையின் படிநிலைகளுக்கு இடையிலான வேறுபாடுகளை கருத்தில் கொண்டு, மனித […]
Red Slender Loris (Loris tardigradus)
Hello there… I’m Loris. The most adorable animal you’d ever see in Sri Lanka, my only home. Let me introduce myself a bit. I am one of a kind. Not very popular among humans. Some people call me “the baby of the forest”, probably because of my size. I live with my friends in the […]
බොර පැහැ මතු දවස…
මිහිමව් වසා නිල් පැහැයෙන් බැබලුණ ද හිමිවන පමණ අපහට කෙතරම් හිඟද පණ නළ ගැහෙන අප හැමගෙම හුස්ම පොද පවස නිවන දිය පොද හා සම නොවෙද මිනිසුන්ගේ නොමිනිස්කම් නිසා අද වසවිස මුසුව අහිමිව ඒ දිය පොද ද දුරු කතර ගෙවා සොයමින් ජල බිඳක් සොඳ යන උන් දකින ගල් හිත් උණු නොවන්නෙ ද ලෝ තතු […]
Majestic Giants of the Animal Kingdom
Whales are among the most delightful creatures on planet Earth. They spend all their lives in the sea. Of course, they are masters in their watery habitat. Is it a fish? Kind of, but unlike fish, they breathe air, have warm blood and suckle their young which spotlights that they are more closely related to […]
The Invisible THREAT to Humanity!
“Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.” – Albert Szent Gyorgyi Safe drinking water, Sanitation, and Hygiene are crucial for human health and quality of life. The reasons behind the tragedy are undoubtedly well known. Why neglect the fact that there exist some things awaiting our attention? […]
The Silent Giants
Nature’s greatest masterpiece Have you ever wondered who this greatest masterpiece is? Well, I am someone who is about 100 times heavier than you. I guess now you might have a slight idea about who I am. That’s right. I am commonly referred to as the Asian Elephant. According to the scientific nomenclature, we are […]
The Prevention AND the Cure
Disease Prevention and Treatment is an area of focus that appears pretty self-explanatory. The work is cut out for us: prevent diseases, and if they evade our efforts and somehow manage to exist, treat them…but how, exactly? The greatest medicine of all is to teach people how not to need it, goes the age-old adage. […]
The Languishing Langurs: A story of their struggle to survive
A story of woe and worry Every story is supposed to have a beginning. A middle. An end. Except for the one I’m going to tell you. Our story lacks both the former and the latter. I do not know how – or even when – our story begins. Neither do I know how or […]
நீங்கள் எவ்வளவு பாதுகாப்பாக இருக்கிறீர்களோ அவ்வளவு ஆரோக்கியமாக இருப்பீர்கள்.
நோய் மற்றும் தடுப்புக்கான அடிப்படைகள். உடலில் ஏற்படும் அசாதாரண நிலை அல்லது ஏதேனும் ஒரு பகுதி செயலிழப்பதை நாம் நோய் என்போம். தொற்றுகள் மற்றும் சுற்றுச் சூழல் காரணிகளால் பொதுவாக நோய் ஏற்படுகிறது. பாக்டீரியா, வைரஸ் மற்றும் ஏனைய நுண்ணுயிர்கள் இவற்றுள் பிரதான காரணிகளாகும். சாதாரண நோய் முதல் ஆட்கொல்லி நோய் என இன்றைய சூழலில் நாம் பல நோய்களுக்கு முகம் கொடுத்துக்கொண்டிருக்கின்றோம். இவ்வாறான அனைத்து நோய்களுக்கும் மருந்துகள் இல்லாத போதிலும், அவற்றின் பாதிப்புக்களை குறைப்பதற்கான பல […]
ගුරුවරුන් නම් දෙවිවරුන්මය..
සියක් දරුවන් හට වෙමින් මව්වරුන් වෙමින් පියවරුන් ජීවන කතාවේ අකුරු එකින් එක පද පෙළින් පෙළ හෙමින් අමුණන්නට අයිලයන් තනමින් අල්තීනායිලා වෙනුවෙන් දහසක් සිහින දකින දුයිෂෙන් පරපුරේ ඔවුන් ගුරුවරුන් නමින් මෙලොව පහළ වූ දෙවිවරුන්ම ය… By Rtr. සුමුදු තෙන්නකෝන් Image credits : https://bit.ly/3uGpnL4
Light through the dark
I am dreaming I am lying on my back in an empty garden An angel whispering in my sleep Suddenly, I can’t breathe I toss and turn Until I fall apart, And I hear my own ragged breath …I cough I am dreaming Suddenly, I feel it I see my mother’s face Just a shimmering […]
දැනුමෙන් පිරිපුන් පරපුරක් උදෙසා මූලික අඩිතාලම
දරුවෙකු මව්කුස පිළිසිඳ, කළල රූපය නිර්මාණය වී, පංචේන්ද්‍රිය විකසනය වූ අවස්ථාවේ සිට එම දරුවා අධ්‍යාපනය හෙවත් ඉගෙනුම ආරම්භ කරන බව වර්තමාන විද්‍යාඥයන්ගේ සොයාගැනීමයි. මව් කුස තුළ සිටින දරුවාට ආදරය කරුණාව දැක්වීම, රසවත් ගීත ඛණ්ඩ ශ්‍රවණයට අවස්ථාව සැලසීම, දරුවා සමග කතා කිරීම වර්තමානය වන විට සායනයන් පවත්වා මව පියා දෙදෙනා දැනුවත් කිරීම මගින් සමාජගත කර ඇත. […]
“අ” යන්නයි “අහසයි”
සිතන්නට හැකිනම් කෙනෙක් වෙද ලියන්නට නම් අවැසි නොම වෙත ලියා ඇති දේ කියවමින් අද ලොවක් තේරුම් ගති හෙට සරා සිප් සොඳ පාමුල ගිමන් නිව්වත් වැස්සට මැකී නොතිබූ ලෑලි කළු මත “අ” යන්නේ රස කිව හැක වලා’ඳුරු පියමන් කර පෑව්වත් යහමින් ඉර බලා සිටියෙ ඒ දිහා මා “අ” යන්නේ නොමැකෙන ගුණ සඳු-සිකුරු ඒ […]
Words never made sense
Through the black and white the letters escaped, and every word made sense to me from the paper into my heart they seeped, Once upon a time ago, far, far away from equality, lived a boy who was illiterate. “Mommy, what are those funny lines and shapes?” because words never made sense to him. “I […]
How to Make the World a Splendid Place?
‘Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?’‘Yes.’‘All like ours?’‘I don’t know; but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound- a few blighted.’‘Which one do we live on- a splendid or blighted one?’‘A blighted one.’ – Tess of The D’Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy. […]
අපි වෙමු එක මවකගේ දරුවෝ
ලෝකයේ ජීවත්වන විවිධ සත්ත්වයෝ විවිධ ආකාරයෙන් තම අයිතීන් හා පහසුකම් භුක්ති විඳිති.ස්වභාවයෙන්ම සමාජ ජීවියෙකු වන මිනිසා විසින් භුක්ති විඳින එවැනි අයිතීන් හා පහසුකම් බොහෝ වේ.ඒ අතරින් සාමය විශේෂ තැනක් ගන්නා අතර, එය මිනිසාගේ කායික හා මානසික යහපැවැත්මට ද බොහෝ සෙයින් වැදගත් වන සාධකයකි. සමාජයක් තුළ සාමය බිඳවැටීමට නොදී රැක ගැනීම සැබවින්ම පහසු කාර්යයක් නොවේ. සාමය […]
A Better World
Power of love replaced by the love of power Power of harmony replaced by the power of greed Brutal and repulsive outer cover Of people running the world in the lead Their underlings in the combat zones Did they ever get to speak to their souls? Fighting for a country they call home While living […]
How long will humans exist?
“The earth does not belong to the man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it, whatever he does to the web he does to himself” -Chief Seattle No need to give […]
මිහි මවුන් සෙමින් ඉකියක් තැබුවා ය…
වැදූ මව් මෙන්ම සෙනෙහසින් අපමණ ප්‍රේමයෙන් දිවියට අවැසි සියලු දේ ලබා දුන් මිහි මවුන් සෙමින් ඉකියක් තැබුවා ය ගංඟා සමුදුරු කෙළෙසන විට තුරුවැල් නසන විට සිදුවන විපත දැක ඇය නොමිනිසුන් වූ මිනිසුන් වෙනුවෙන් සෙමින් ඉකියක් තැබුවා ය අහස හැඩ කරන කුරුල්ලන් තේජවන්ත හස්ති රජුන් තම තුරුලේ මියෙන බව දැන ඇය සෙමින් සුසුමක් හෙළුවා ය ගත […]
Green solutions to man-made problems
From the day that human beings started to dominate the earth, they had been influencing and changing this planet. The man had developed the planet into a cozier place in many aspects but he had simultaneously forgotten about certain elements that are also parts of this planet. But looking back, this intelligent being had understood […]
#FriendzALert
Celebrating the ‘ride or die’s There are friends, there is family and then, there are friends that become family… We meet many along the journey of life but only a few choose to stay. Out of them, the closest remain forever as our truest friends, our soulmates, the other half, our secret keepers, the ones […]
Creative Fusion
Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones. As we move on to yet another Rotaract year relying on virtual platforms to continue with the brunt of the club activities, our first ever project may have started out just ordinary. However, the endless creative ideas that […]
Imagine the future with Innovision
From the age of Neanderthals to the age of Artificial Intelligence, this sphere we all live in has transitioned by a considerably huge quantum with the progress of science and technology. Thanks to many ingenious ideations of human entities throughout time, this hasn’t been much of a problem. In a nutshell, today innovative thinking has […]
SLAMM’21
One event, five faculties, one united team – SLAMM’21. The Rotaract Family of the University of Colombo joined hands together to embrace the excitement of planning, organizing, and successfully executing the perfect treasure hunt of the year. Let’s have a heartfelt recalling down that exciting memory lane! It was early May 2021 when the preparations […]
RALITHI
“Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.”-Kofi Annan- In a world of darkness where people fight for the realms of power with bullets and bombs, still in the mind of the erudite, the most powerful weapon of all is not mere gunfire but the fire lit inside a learned soul. Education and literacy hand […]
Let them fly to make the world a better place
The importance of butterfly gardens, butterflies and their adaptations, and importance to the ecosystem. Have you ever had a chance to glimpse into a butterfly garden? If so, undoubtedly you may have sensed the beauty of it. A butterfly garden is a place where you may feel different from the outside world. It’s because you […]
Spectra: Embrace the Au-someness
“Different, not less” Autism is not much of a conversed topic within our community. Sure, we all have heard the word before, but are we well aware of what Autism is? Did you know that despite the impression that was given to us, the said condition is a neurotypical disorder rather than a disability? I […]
Miracle: From Hearing Rhythms to Making Revolutions
“We scan the empty sky – Always without successWe’re lighting signal fires – And spelling SOSWe stare at broken clocks – The truth comes twice a dayWhile every second just slips away…“ In times like these, where the words “trying times” are heard to no end and have now settled down as a new normal, […]
Rise Against Mangling The Groves
Mihisara Asna Phase 02 Have you ever had the chance to venture through a mangrove forest? If you have, you may reminisce a scenery of groves standing on thick tangles of roots in shallow waters, in muddy water-logged soils, atmosphere reeking the aroma of rich silt and mosquito-ridden and the vibrant biodiversity; wading egrets, ibis […]
“Fourth of July” – Carrie & Lowell
Carrie & Lowell, named after Sufjan’s mother and stepfather can be described as a painful confrontation, or a cathartic confession of a troubled childhood, or maybe a nostalgic love letter to a deceased mother from her child with whom she had a complicated relationship. Carrie suffered from depression, schizophrenia, and alcoholism. Feeling unequipped to raise […]
“Tragedy + Time” – Rise against
Emotions are the lines of life that keep us anchored to our souls. To put it in a nutshell, we all feed upon our emotions. Positive, negative, or whatever emotion it may be, every human being that inhabits the earth, lives on these phenomena. However, as humans are mere slaves of desires and relationships, they […]
Autism Spectrum Disorder and Child Development
Autism spectrum disorder is a developmental disability defined by the way it affects a person’s ability to communicate, socialize and fit in society. We sat down with Prof. Samanmali Sumanasena, an experienced clinician and an academic in the field of child development and child disability, for an interview on the way autism affects children, which […]
“One More Light” – Linkin Park
“One More Light”, a piece from the seventh studio album of Linkin Park stands as an effective portrayal of the significant turning points of life: loss and death. The two aspects are continuously linked together throughout the piece by bringing out the distress of an onlooker who may be a friend or family and the […]
WeGuide – Akhankara Phase II – 20/21
The severity of Covid 19 snatched away the treadwheel of the country’s key proceeding factors including the education system. Due to the island-wide lockdown last year, posed a detrimental impact as the schools had to be shut barring the students’ right to be educated. However, the education system changed dramatically with the rise of online […]
“Comfortably Numb” – Pink Floyd
Call me old school, but I was not a fan of Rock Music until I came across the masterpiece, “Comfortably Numb” by Pink Floyd. I always hated the moody bass parts of Rock Music and considered the heavy music as a headache. Just like a 100 years old grandma, I did embrace the soft melodies […]
Along the tracks of Coast to Coast
All good things must come to an end; it’s in your hands to enjoy those little moments while they last. Traveling and making friends across the globe is indeed such a wonderful rhapsody, which only a few lucky people get to taste. With that in mind, we at RACFOSUOC resolved to make this an advantage […]
Wings of the Ocean (Coast To Coast- Phase III)
Heart-cart of “Wings of the Ocean” was the 3 rd phase of Project “Coast to Coast ” an initiative from the international service avenue of RACFOSUOC. After the successful completion of Hopscotch the Globe – the Coast to Coast Phase 1 blog competition and the Phase 2 Pen Pal program, Rotractors were enthralled on discovering […]
A Blessing In Disguise
“A mother’s love endures through all.” – Washington Irwin Motherhood is the perfect real-life embodiment of passion, affection, and selfless love all in one. Bringing your own child into this world wakens up the depths of mothers’ inner souls. A child ignites a mother’s life. They love their children wholeheartedly with utmost care and sincerity […]
“Not Afraid” – Eminem
Have you ever listened to rap music? If not, there may be some reasons behind your answer. You may feel rap music is like just throwing words at you with a melody that doesn’t give any sense. But I’m sure you will not feel the same after you read this article. This may change your […]
“Numb” – Linkin Park
Unless you have been living under a rock, you definitely would know about one of the most successful alternative-rock bands of all time, “Linkin Park“. Even though they changed their genre with time, they undoubtedly touched a few sensitive aspects of society through their songs that often remain undiscussed. For most teenagers, secondary school is […]
“Man in the Mirror” – Micheal Jackson
“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself.” Micheal Jackson’s super-hit pop song “Man in the Mirror” enunciates this message with its meaningful lyrics co-written by Glen Ballard and Siedah Garrett. The song takes us through the thoughts of a man, who has […]
“My Hero” – Foo Fighters
Whether you’re traveling in the bus with the window pulled open, just lost in thoughts, or whether it’s the gloom of night and you toss and turn as you mull over an incident from a previous time, or even while you’re walking down the road with music in your ears, what comes to your head […]
Sevana 2021
“A hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple as reassuring putting a coat on a young boy’s shoulders” -Batman I recall a memory from November, two years back; a memory that still melts my heart. A memory of us taking the amazingly willed children of the Sevana Special School and Child […]
“Stop This Train” – John Mayer
Growing up from adolescence to adulthood is challenging and sometimes scary when you ponder it. “Stop This Train”, a song by John Mayer figuratively represents life in a style that is captivating and meaningful at the same time. Mayer gives a vivid picture of the things he wishes not to experience as he becomes older. […]
Beneath The Mask
“Most of the time I don’t find autism to be the struggle, I find other people’s understanding of autism to be the struggle”. You may have encountered a number of quotes, phrasings by people on the spectrum about ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder). But have you ever wondered which thoughts lead them to express emotions in […]
Frontline Families of the Spectrum
“Some news comes happier than the others, but everything always with a greater reason…” The diagnosis of the actual condition of any differently-abled child comes with certain challenges that run throughout the lifespan of the child. The responsibility of making him/her feel welcome not only to the society but the family itself is a weight […]
Future Challenge 2021
“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future” – Franklin D. Roosevelt Organized annually with the sole aim of empowering the youth and molding Sri Lanka’s future, “Future Challenge” is the signature professional development project of the Rotaract Club of Faculty of Science, University of […]
Only One
“There is a magic machine that sucks carbon out of the air, costs very little, and builds itself. It’s called a tree.” In a short film, published on Youtube in 2019, youth climate change activist Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot, a writer for the Guardian, talked about how we need to use nature as a solution […]
100 SMILES
A smile costs nothing but means everything. The International Day of Happiness falls on the 20th of March. How can we spread happiness on this day? Was our question. What is happiness to you? Is it spending time with your friends or family? Is it helping out someone in need? Or is it simply the […]
සයවන මහා වඳවීම අභියස සිට ලියමි.
නිමක් නැත, දියුණුවේ නිමක් නැත.අහස, පොළොව, මහ මුහුදමිහිපිට හැම බිම් අඟලක්මජයගත්තාට වැඩක් නැත.පරණ දේ හොඳයි, අලුත් දේ නරකයිකියමින් කෑ ගැසුවාට වැඩක් නැත.නොදනිමින් පරිණාමීය අනුවර්තනයතිරසාර සංවර්ධනය. හඳුන් දිවියා, කළු කොටියාහඬති බලමින් දෙව්ලොව සිටතමමවට ද්‍රෝහිවූවන් අතින්සෙමින් මියෑදෙන ඇත් රජුන් දෙසට ඇගේ දරුවන්ගේ කඳුළුතැකුවෝතින් සුළුකොටකුපිත වෙයි සොබාදහම් මවකළ පිටුපෑමටහිනැහෙමින් කට කොනින්අපේ මාන්නයටගනු ඇත ඇගේ තීරණය“කවුරුන්ද මීලඟට?” By Rtr.චාමි […]
Why Fit In When You Can Stand Out?
“I have spent my life trying to fit in without much success – but I am not going to try so hard to fit in anymore, like everyone else with autism, I was born to stand out.” : Suzanne Burke, Police Constable and Member of the Metropolitan Police Service Autism Support Network What is Autism? […]
හුස්ම විකිණීමට ඇත.
ලීටරේ තුනට වතුර විකිණෙනවා වාගේ රට මැද උතුරේ දන්නවද ලියවෙනවා අලුත්ම ඉරණමක් අපි ගැන නුදුරේ “හුස්ම විකුණනවා අන්න බලන්න අද චීනේ” කපලා තවත් ගස් දෙක තුන කිසි කිසියේ පිට දාලා විස දුම් එක පිට ඉහළට බට දිගේ හොයලා ඵලක් නෑ […]
SAND-TASTIC
The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your souls. Once DRR.Kasun Sigera had asked that had anyone found any friends through Rotaract. That question drove me into a deep sense of grief and gave rise to an emptiness in my mind. Most of my school friends were also in […]
Rotaract & Me
What’s Rotaract to you? A question asked by many yet the answers are always unique and never the same. As a firm believer of the saying “The best things in life happen unexpectedly and the best will come when and from you least expect it”, becoming a part of this global community of people from […]
Hopscotch the globe
“Hopscotch the globe” was an article writing contest, held as the first phase of project “Coast To Coast”, an initiative from the International Service Avenue of RACFOSUOC. This was indeed an escape mechanism!! We all were( and still are) exhausted from being confined to the four walls of our rooms, and eyes glued to screens. […]
Dream
Moody, grumpy and clumsy,a social outcastdaunted by the community“oh! he’s just a fainéant.” Screaming with laughter,my friends, I often seelanguid and lonely, yetI always dream I want to row, draw and growbe a rival to my peersbut they always treat me low“you are nothing but peculiar.” You and I both look the samethen, why do […]
Online இல் கழிந்த ஒரு வருடம்…
அது மார்ச் மாதம் 17ஆம் தினம் 2020. முதல் வருட மாணவர்கள் ஆக பல்கலைக்கழகத்துக்கு தேர்ந்து வந்து நாம் பெரும் நோக்கங்களும், திட்டங்களும் கொன்றவரகளாக இருந்தோம். என்றாலும் கொரோனா வைரஸ் நம்முடைய அணைத்து திட்டங்களையும் அழித்து விட்டது. நான் இந்த கட்டுரை எழதும் நாளில் நான் பழங்களை கழகத்துக்குச் சேர்ந்தூ ஒரு வருடம் ஆகி விட்டாளும் அங்கு இருப்பதர்க வாய்பு பெற முடிய வில்லையே என்று கவழை வந்தது. என்றாலும் இன்னும் பல நாட்களில் அங்கு செல்ல […]
හැකිවෙද යළිත්…
දැන් හරි දිගයි දවසත් ඒ ඇයි මන්දාදවස ම ගෙවෙයි ඩිජිටල් තිර නෙත රන්දානිහඬව හෙළන සුසුමක් සුළඟක බන්දාබොඳ වූ සිහින සිතුවම් කඳුළින් ඇන්දා රසබර තෙපුල් අමුණා සොම්නස ගල්වාදවස ම සිනහ සයුරක නිති සිත ගිල්වාගෙවු ඒ සොඳුරු සැමරුම් මතකෙන් අල්වායළි එනු ඇතැයි සිතමින් ඉමි නෙතු දල්වා සිරවී බිත්ති සතරක කෙලෙසින් ඉම්දෝවැලපෙන පැතුම් හද කිකලෙක පවසම්දෝපාළුව දරා කෙලෙසක […]
Happily Lost
I’m staring at the computer screen watching recordings of missed lectures and trying to memorize jargon that I can’t even pronounce. What better time to reminiscence about the past? It’s been months since the global pandemic hit, and a lot has changed since. Face masks have become another item of clothing, Zoom has become a […]
Just a perplexing Enigma
Reminiscing of a year like no other “ I closed my eyes, drew back the curtain To see for certain what I thought I knew “ Year 2020 was truly wonderous So much happened in a glimpse And it really made me reflect About life and how it precisely rhymes Before January 2020, I loathed my […]
Hours
Ding-Dong, Ding-Dong… chimed the grandfather clock downstairs. Familiarity followed by deep anguish, I drowsily glanced back at the clock on the side table barely managing to read the hands. It was 6. Was it dawn or dusk? My mind frozen with the anonymous cold breeze rushing through the window seals swayed my dope thoughts of […]
A Christmas to Remember
“What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, and hope for the future.” This is exactly what the Rotaract Club of Faculty of Science, University of Colombo delivered last December, relieving all the stress, pressure, and depression of the past year with mystical entertainment, throwing a spectacular celebration of the […]
Breathe: beyond the mere exposition of inhalation and exhalation
To “breathe” is not something we are told to do or taught of, but instead, it is an action that inadvertently takes place from the time we’re born until death. The circle of inhaling Oxygen and exhaling Carbon dioxide, serves as the driving force of life and it is quite mesmerizing as to how this […]
Team IT
Hard work beats talent if talent doesn’t work hard. The month of July, in the year 2020 is one of the remarkable months in our Rotaract journey, as we were appointed as IT directors of RACFOSUOC for the executive term, 2020/21. As IT Directors, we have a major responsibility when contributing to uplift the promotional […]
Team Public Relations
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. For the first time in our Rotaract club history, a PR team was appointed on the 8th of August, with the aim of improving the public image of the Club. This decision has since proven to be one of the best that were ever taken. […]
Team Editors
The breathing caption database of the extra mile It has been almost 4 months since the Team Editors of RACFOSUOC was brought to light. The 12 strong individuals with amazing skills of creativity, language skills, and technicality became the behind stage of the Rotaract blog. As the Editors for the year 2020/21, it gives us […]
Hello, 2021!
Flashes of anger, reigns of terrorGripped by sorrow, streams of tearsThe distance of the loved and dearamidst sirens of pain and fearLittle did we expectscars the year that passedwould leave behindon the world and mankind by far… Passed it may, still lives manycracks to be patched, wounds to be healed.As the dawn looks promisingdreams in […]
Spirit of Christmas
Frosty winds swirlingThrough the hills and valleysCozy flames of fire dazzlingVibrant blazes reflectingChords of peace reverberatingSoothing the blessedConsoling the forlorn Burning candles and oaken garlandsThe sweet scent of ChristmasCarols of love sang with joyFilling the heavens with faithSoar to the sky with graceThe glory to GodThe peace to the world… By Rtr. Ishara Nimeshi Image […]
The unwinding of ‘WiseAdvice’: for a further insightful future
“Today the world lives by faith and runs by science”. Why you may wonder. Science is not just the mere encircling of some atoms, as everyone stereotypes, instead it reaches far deep. As deep as the basis of human existence and the governance of the universe. This world may be diverged because of race, religion, […]
The Enchanted Wilderness
A land of phoenixes rising from the ashes, polka-dotted supersonic felines, killer horned mammals and a plethora of earthly and unearthly beings dwell where magic meets reality…It did sound too far-fetched, nevertheless in time “The Enchanted Wilderness” became the series of conservation anecdotes that indeed echoed the Cries before they fade. It all began after […]
The Symbol of Resurrection
Greek mythologies were around humanity for thousands of years and they do not seem to fade away easily. Among them stands out the legendary Phoenix, which is deemed as the symbol of renewal, rebirth, and destruction. The ancient legends detail about a majestic, giant bird with a body ablaze with irradiant colors and eyes filled […]
Even Flow
I tried to close my eyes as the wheels started accelerating. Tried is the word that should be highlighted. The excitement, however, kept them wide open, staring as the tarmac kept disappearing. I watched as the ground started getting further and further away and let out a breath. A few heartbeats later, we were heading […]
The cutest in the animal kingdom
Can you recall your visit to a zoo? Have you ever thought the animal kingdom has the cutest animal? If not, here you will get to know the Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) with a blend of colours white and black. A panda is a mammal who give birth to their young and feeds their young […]
Italian Culture
Being proud owners of 125000 years of history, our lives as Sri Lankans, since our birth, have been intertwined with the word “culture”. Our relationship choices, career choices, most of our major life decisions have more or less been influenced by our “culture” that we hold on to so tightly. But what is Culture? Who […]
Chuseok
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The Whale Song
I was completely unaware of the O2 levels in my tank. As the current kept pulling me, I was dazzled by the patterns of this deep blue jungle. In time I started hearing them. A click, a pulse, a whistle, boings, groans, cries, and some thrills. Was it a choir in the dark? Or a […]
On a Wing
I closed my eyes – thoughts clouded with dust As I counted my pulse, Each breath a slight strain, And opened them – the weather to trust The lights shone down – feelings wonder-lost A field of fireflies – scattered in the dimly lit ground Unblinking, yet mesmerizing, Of a new kind? A lag in […]
THE TIRAMISU RUN
It was a nice spring day in the beautiful city of Berlin in Germany. A middle-aged couple was traveling across the country when they encountered this dainty pastry shop– Bella Italia. Throughout their stay in Berlin, they indulged themselves in the heavenly flavors of a freshly made, Tiramisu oozing with mascarpone cheese, topped with a […]
The Fat Unicorn
The Unique-Horn-Bearer of the Rare Wilderness “Rhinoceros”, isn’t everyone’s cup of tea because little do we know, little do we question about this brilliant creation of nature. Their rarity itself stands out to make them an important species that needs to be protected. “Rhino” stands for nose and “ceros” stands for horn and the name […]
A visit to the desert
Among the countries I have visited in my life, some countries grabbed my attention the most. You will be amazed to hear if a country full of deserts grabbed my attention. This is my visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the last abroad journey I had before the pandemic. Saudi Arabia is […]
Fairytales have Unicorns, In real life we have Saolas
The Saola (Pseudoryx nghetin) can be considered as an alternative to the fictional unicorn. Also known as the Asian Unicorn, the Saola is a rare large mammal found only in the Vietnamese territory up to date. The Saola is gifted with two unusually long horns which may extend up to around 50 cm probably for […]
Sea turtle: A miraculous journey for survival
All life journeys are unique in their own way, yet the life of a sea turtle is no small feat. Sea turtles are ancient mariners who’ve been around since the time of the dinosaurs. The earliest known marine turtle lived about 120 million years ago. Sea turtles have survived through the challenges of eons, existing […]
Throwback to Pink Mysteries
“Mystery trails” Pinktober’s Mystery Mania It all started on the 18th of October when a POC form was published on the Rotaract groups mentioning a new project enlistment to host a treasure hunt. It was aimed at Pinktober’s main theme to increase the awareness of breast cancer within the community. The collaboration of a treasure […]
Beauty or Beast?
Stalking, treading along the tall grass and bushes like a silent wraith looking for its next prey. The sun shining off its golden coat and its transverse strips, perfectly balanced and blended with the forest. Slender and agile. The tiger might not be the “King of the Jungle” but it certainly is its Apex Predator. […]
Beyond the ecstasy of GotPINK?
“Breasts feed us, nurture us, and excite us. But the most versatile organ in the female body can also kill us.” Every October, the world takes a pinkish glow and becomes vigilant towards the most common cancer in women worldwide, the monstrous Breast Cancer. That is why the RACFOSUOC took the initiative to conduct […]
Shattering Mythological Glasses
Deep in those greeny woods, the foliage has grown thick and lush… there might be a pair of beady eyes, staring at you, noticing even your slightest moves, even the blink of an eye is enough. It would only take an iota of time for this flashy green, whip-like creature to attack you! Who is […]
The Tuskers of Proboscideans
Proboscidea is an order with the meaning of “having a trunk”. The most important organ of them is their trunk which is their multipurpose equipment. This trunk is muscular without bones and fits the nasal bone having a free distal end. Nowadays the only existing animals of proboscideans are elephants and they are the biggest […]
The Kindest Silence; Koala
Chill attitude, cuddly appearance, and a tiny brain? Do you have these “Koalifications”? Congratulations, you are a Koala bear. Koala is a tree-dwelling marsupial and the only member of the family Phascolarctidae. These cute creatures are restricted to Australia, particularly to the Eucalyptus forests of the eastern coasts of Australia. They are about 60-85cm long […]
The Monarch: A Race Against Time
If ever there was magic, it is the indehiscent color of butterfly wings. It casts a spell on the beholder which intoxicates his heart with fullness. She flies out of her cocoon to bring a subtle change to the warm summer breeze. The monarch butterfly too is a part of this breathtaking wonder due to […]
“Wanna race me?”
The polka-dotted missiles of the wild In a world where everyone and everything is in a race against the clock, the mocking growl of a Cheetah from the African savannahs puts it all to shame. The sight of a well-camouflaged black-spotted cat peeking through the grey hued grasses sends a chill down the spine of […]
கொரோனா உலகில் மனிதன்
2019 நவம்பர் மாதம் சீனாவில் ஒருவருக்கு தொற்றிய கொரோனா வைரஸ் முழு உலகையும் ஸ்தம்பிதத்திற்கு கொண்டு வர சில மாதங்கள் கூட ஆகவில்லை. மனித இனம் என்ற வகையில் இந்த நோய் தொற்றை எப்படி எதிர்கொண்டோம் என பார்க்கப்போனால் சில சிந்திக்க வைக்கும் விடயங்கள் வெளிப்படுகின்றன. 2011 செப்டெம்பரில் அமெரிக்க இரட்டை கோபுர தாக்குதல் யாவரும் அறிந்த விடயமே. உலக அரசியல் போக்குகளை புரட்டி போடும் அளவுக்கு அதன் விளைவுகள் இருந்தன. பல நூற்றாயிரக்கணக்கான உயிர்களை காவு […]
Beauty and Evil of Coronavirus
The COVID-19 pandemic is considered as the most crucial global health calamity of the century and the greatest challenge that the humankind faced since the 2nd World War. COVID-19 is a contagious disease caused by the most recently discovered coronavirus. This novel pandemic was unknown before the outbreak began in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. […]
Heal You-Heal Us
Project Heal You, Heal Us officially kickstarted in July 2020. This was back when the whole country was in lockdown and to be honest none of us were high-spirited or our normal selves at that time. The POC was selected and most of us had no idea what it was all about. Since we went […]
සිහින වසරක නිමාව තුටින් දැක ගන්න
සිනහ මල් විසිරෙච්චමතක පොදි ගොඩගැහුණසිහින වසරක නිමාවතුටින් දැක ගන්නඒ ගමනේ ඇරඹුමකඅපේ හදවත් එක්වගෙවූ ඒ පැය ගණනගමන සරසයි නිසැකවමවෙන්වීම අබියසකඳුළකට අත වනනනොමියන බැඳීම් හමුවනගමනක පෙරවදනලියූවෙමු එලෙසඒ හදවත් එක්ව Completing a successful rotaract year is not an easy task. The prominent requirement for that is the cooperation among the board members. So, RACFOSUOC decided to arrange a […]
The Final Countdown
We’re only halfway through 2020 and this year has already proved to be quite the challenge. Right now the entire world would find solidarity in the statement, ‘Life never goes according to plan’. Especially with the pandemic that’s prevailing at the moment, it certainly does feel like the Universe is settling a score. Life as […]
බුදුදහමින් ඔපවත් වන මිනිසත්කම
උදා වී ඇත්තේ ධනය,බලය වෙනුවෙන් ගුණ දම්වලට පිටුපෑ මිනිසාට සොබාදහම විසින් පාඩම් කියාදෙමින් සිටින කාලයක්…… භෞතික දියුණුවෙන් උදම් වුනු බටහිර රටවල පිරිහුණු මිනිසත්කම ගැන ඛේදනීය පුවත් සමාජ මාධ්‍ය ඔස්සේ දැඩි කතාබහට ලක්වෙන මොහොතක්…. එනිසා මෙවර එලඹෙන පොසොන් පුන් පොහොය බුදු දහමින් ඔප්නැංවුන මිනිසත්බව සිහිකැඳවීමට සුදුසු ම සමයක්…… මෛත්‍රිය ,කරුණාව,දයාව ඉතිරෙන නිදහස් සිතකට මගකියන බුදු දහමෙන් […]
Critical thinking for a prosperous future?
Have you ever heard of Andare’s story where he relates this magnificent method of preparing jaggery to the king? If not, here is the version my grandmother narrated to me when I was little: One day, the king was enjoying his meal and he commented on the jaggery being very sweet, musing out loud that […]
අලුත් ඇරඹුමක්…
වෙනදා නිල්ල ගහමින් තිබුණ තැනිතලාව අද ගුරු පාටට හැරිල. ගස් වල අතු ඉති වසා ගෙන තිබුණ කොළ මල් ඔක්කොම වේලිලා බිම වැටිල තිබුණෙ හරියට අපිටත් අවස්ථාවක් දෙන්න කියල සොබාදහමෙන් ඉල්ලන්න වගේ. වෙනදා ඇලේ ඉන්න මාළු රංචු එක්ක හරි හරියට තරඟ කරපු සීතල වතුර පාර මේ ඉඩෝරයත් එක්කම හිඳිල ගිහින් තිබුනෙ රංචුවෙ හිටපු සමහර මාළුන්ගෙ මරණයට […]
Trees For Tranquillity Of Life
How does cutting down trees affect our health?The benefits we get from trees are plenty; industrially, domestically and agriculturally. The statement that ‘trees affect our health’ is almost clichéd at the moment as we have been hearing it forever. With the current pandemic due to COVID-19 and people starting to become more conscious of their […]
TAKE A GUESS
This is an overwhelming yet tragic story of a country (which shall remain a mystery) that stole the spotlight in this pandemic crisis. I am very sure you are keen to know what really went south, so, let me spill the beans. To begin with, the first confirmed case was reported on the 31st of […]
On The Path To Conquering COVID-19; Viva l’Italia
Italy, a European country with a rich tradition and economy, has left a powerful mark on Western culture and cuisine. Whether it is lasagna, a slice of pizza, or even a cone of gelato, Italy is known all around the world for its delicious food. Galileo’s caliber gifted the world the ability to witness the […]
කැදැල්ලක සුවඳ
මිනිස් ඇසට නොපෙනෙන මායිමක් සොයා වන ලැහැබේ පහසින් සිත දුරක නොයා අතු ඉති මැදි කළ සුව තණ පලස තියා දුටිමි ජෝඩුවක් සෙනෙහෙන් පැතුම් අයා පෙම් බස් රස වෑහෙන සුමිහිරි බොහොම කිචි බිචි කොමළිය ආදර සුව ඔහොම තුරු වදුලෙන් ආසිරි ලබමින් එහෙම ඉගිලෙන සිතුවිලි නවතාලනු කොහොම උණුසුම් තුරුලක තටු සඟවන්නට සෙනෙහස දළුලන රහස කියන්නට නිදහස් රසයක […]
Uncle Sam vs. COVID-19
“COVID-19”, the latest trendsetter, has hit USA so hard, I think I speak for everyone out there when I say that we were actually quite surprised and taken aback.Who would’ve thought that America would ever become so vulnerable?Who would’ve ever thought that the state with the strongest grip on the world economy, would rank as […]
Coping with COVID-19; The Chinese Edition
COVID-19, the name says it all. There is not a single soul on Earth who does not know or fear the name. The virus has already infected more than 5 million people all around the globe while recording more than 345,000 deaths.In the early days of January, Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province of China, […]
Keeping Up With COVID-19: The Island’s Stance
“I watched the mirage as it blended into the reflections of the long road ahead. It had been almost 2 months since I last drove my car. I looked at the surroundings, the vehicles passing me by, and listened to the horns of the red buses. I couldn’t notice the usual smile of the cashier […]
රිදුමක කතාව
” මහත්තයෝ, දැන් ඔය මොකුත් කර කියාගන්න බැරුව උන්නට මං රස්සාව කළේ නගර සභාවෙ, කුණු ටැට්ටරෙ, දැන් මේ එකතැන් වෙලා හිටියට හොඳ හයිය හත්තිය තිබුණා ගෑනු අපිටත් ඒ සන්දියෙ. හැබැයි මහත්තයෝ මං ජීවිතය දකිනකොට ගොඩක් සුනංගු වෙලා. ” කේ. සිරියා අම්මා මාත් එක්ක කී කතාව තමයි මේ !! පරදන්නට බෑ පල දෙනවා කරුම පව් ගෙව […]
The angel sent from above
“…So I’ll sing HallelujahYou were an angel in the shape of my momWhen I fell down you’d be there holding me up…” Sit down, get your mobile and earphones… Start listening to “Supermarket Flowers” by Ed Sheeran and imagine your mom, while reading this. I guarantee at least one tear.The reason we are on this […]
අඳුර දුරු කල සමිඳුනේ, වඩිනු මැන යලි ලෝ දනන් වෙත…
පරතෙරක් නොපෙනෙනා , කඳුලකුදු ආලෝකයක හෝඩුවාවක් වත් නොමැති ඝන අන්ධකාරයක ඔබ තනි වුවහොත්, සරණක් නොමැතිව ඔබ කෙතරම් අසරණද? තිගැස්මක් පමණක්ම මුළු හදවත පුරා දෝංකාර නොදේවිද? එවන් හදවතක් සුවපත් කළ හැක්කේ, ආලෝකයටම මිස අන් කවරකටද? ඝනදුරින් වෙලාගත් රෑ අහස් ගැබ සිසාරා පායනා සඳකැන් ඒ අහස් ගැබට එක් කරනා සිසිලස මෙපමණක් යැයි කියා නිම කළ නොහැක. ඒ […]
Vesak is needed now- more than ever
Under the prevailing situation in the country, one might argue that celebrating Vesak is not the wisest decision to make. However, it is high time that we Buddhists take some time to reflect on how we celebrate the most important Buddhist Festival of all time. Vesak is the festival that celebrates Lord Buddha’s Birth, Enlightenment, […]
An empty church but a full heart
Today there is an empty church. The pews are empty, the church organ is dusty, there are no colourful flowers or Easter eggs to decorate the alter and the only thing that will break the dead silence in the church is the bell. Being in quarantine or isolation this year has created many changes and […]
ආදරෙයි හදවතින්ම !!
හිතන්න, තව පාරක්. ලංකාව ලස්සන කරන්න, අපේ ජීවිත පිරිසිදු කරන්න, නැවුම් හුස්ම පොදක් ඉතිරි කරන්න, අපි වෙනුවෙන් ඒ අය කරන, ප්‍රශංසාවක් නැති මහා කැපකිරීම! ඒ අයත් මිනිස්සු, අපි වගේම. ආදරය, කරුණාව, සෙනෙහස දක්වන්න. එයාලටත් ගෞරව කරන්න. නෙළුම පිපී උඩු ආවත් පෙති විහිදා සහය දුන්නු ගොහොරුව මතකෙන් හැරදා කිසි ලෙසකත් එක් වැනුමක්වත් නොලදා බලනු මිතුර […]
Sky’s the limit
Today, the 21st of March, is World Down Syndrome Day. Scientifically speaking, Down syndrome is a genetic disorder also known as ‘Trisomy 21’. It is due to the presence of a third copy of the chromosome 21 (There are 23 chromosomes in a human nucleus and these chromosomes are numbered). Studies suggest that it occurs […]
The wonders of a woman
Once upon a time, the divinity created a wonderful sculpture. It was both eye-catching and breathtaking, with an ability to capture anyone’s heart in a twinkle. Though it appeared delicate by exterior, the divinity gave it the capability of bearing thousands of agonies from within its interior. The purpose of this wonderful creation was the […]
Nueva Década
It’s 2020; a new year, new decade. Everyone is excited to witness the dawn of a new decade along with celebrations coming their way. As we celebrate, I think it is quite important that we show gratitude to the wonderful people and the lessons we learnt in the past year. For me, joining Rotaract was […]
It’s not what’s under the tree that matters, but who’s gathered around it
Today marks a birthday. A birthday of a special person, one which billions of people around the world celebrate. A savior, a messenger from the almighty to remind us about love, care, compassion and empathy. You do not have to be a Catholic or a Christian to celebrate Christmas as it is a season for […]
Joy to the World
From Gingerbread men and candy canes to Santa Claus and Christmas trees, the most wonderful time of the year has arrived yet again. What are the thoughts and feelings that spring up when the word ‘Christmas’ crosses one’s mind? Some may say that it is a time of reflection and repentance on one’s actions while […]
හමුවෙමු අපි නැවතත්
දියමන්ති ලෙස දිදුළන දෑස ද නැවුම්ව විකසිත වන සිනහව ද නැවත වරක් හමු වෙන්නට ආයාචනා ගෙනෙයි ඔවුන් අතරෙන් අයෙක් සීමා මායිම් නොතකාම අනාගතයට ඉණිමං තනයි ශක්තිමත් , සුවිසල් සිහින මවයි සිතෙහි නොසැලෙන අධිෂ්ඨානයෙන් ඉගිලෙයි ඔව් අපට වඩා තියුණු දෑසින් යුක්තයි ඔවුන් අතරෙන් අයෙක් වසරකට තෙවරක් පමණක්ම උදාවෙන වසන්තය උදෙසා ඇඟිලි ගනිමින් සිටියි දෙමව්පියන් දැකීමේ […]
Smiles for the Soul and Spirit; Sevana 2019
We have a thousand reasons to smile. But do we always try to hold on to a smile? No… Most of us anguish over small failures. However a few days ago we were graced with the presence of wonderful company, one that always endeavours in holding onto smiles and the little moments of happiness in […]
THE INFLUENCE OF A GOOD TEACHER CAN NEVER BE ERASED
Akhankara phase 1 finished in style echoing the words of the title, as we, the Rotaractors of the Faculty of Science, University of Colombo, enlightened the path of 31 beautiful souls of the school, Ilukovita Kanishta Vidyalaya, through the last few months providing them with the much-needed knowledge to overcome the hurdle of the O/L […]
‘අඛංකාර’ දිනපොතට
නංගියේ මල්ලියේ, උදේම සුදුම සුදු පාට ඇඳුමින් ඉස්කෝලේ පාර දිගේ පෝළිමට එනවා දැක්කම මගේ හිතත් අතරමන් උනා අවුරුදු ගානකට කලින් මාත් ආවා ගියානේ ඔහොම මාත් බලන් හිටියා අයියලා අක්කලා එනකන් උගන්නන්නට හිනාවෙන්නට සරසවියේ හැඩ අහන්නට ඔය වගේම ඉතින් අම්මගෙයි තාත්තගෙයි ඇස් වල සතුටු කදුළු පුරවන්න ගුරු මව් පියවරු ආඩම්බර කරවන්න විදු නාමය […]
All It Takes Is A Little Care And Compassion..
“Twinkle, twinkle, little star,How I wonder what you are!Up above the world so high,Like a diamond in the sky…” Yes! They sang that, with the exact melodious tune which still echoes over and over in our heads. “The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else”; The project “Care. Compassion ‘19” […]
දිනපොතෙන් දවසක්, අඛංකාර
රොටරැක්ට්ලා කවදත් රට දැය උරට හෙට දින ලක්මව කිරුළින් සරසන්ට සිසු නැණ මල් සිප් සතරින් පුබුදන්ට ‘අඛංකාර’ සීතාවක පුරවරට අපෙ අයියල, අක්කලගෙ මඟ පෙන්වීමත් එක්ක, බොහොම සද්භාවයෙන්, හරිම උද්යෝගයකින් තමයි මම කොළඹ විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයීය රොටරැක්ට් සමාජයෙන් ‘අවුරුද්දක් පාසා’ සංවිධානය කරන, අඛංකාර අධ්‍යාපන සත්කාරයට ඉස් ඉස්සෙල්ලම මේ අවුරුද්දෙ සහභාගී වෙන්නෙ. […]
We rise by lifting others
Have you ever encountered situations you’ve got into unintentionally but ended up having the most fun? I’m sure you have. This is one of those situations which happened to me, recently. The project ‘Akhankara’ is our club’s signature project which is being conducted for the 7th consecutive year at Ilukovita Kanishta Vidyalaya. I was extremely […]
අභියෝගයන්ට සීමා නොදමන්න, සීමාවන්ට අභියෝග කරන්න…
ඔක්තෝබර් 10 වෙනිදාට යෙදෙන ලෝක මානසික සෞඛ්‍ය දිනය වෙනුවෙන් මෙවර “සියදිවි නසා ගැනීම වැළැක්වීම” කියන තේමාව විසින් තෝරගැනීම හරිම කාලෝචිතයි. මනුෂ්‍ය ඉතිහාසය පුරාම මේ ගැන සුපුරුදු කතාබහක් ගොඩනැගුණා වුණත් පසුගිය දශක කිහිපයේ සියදිවි නසා ගැනීමේ වාර්තා ඉහළ යන්නේ තරුණ ප්‍රජාව මත රතු එළියක් ඉතිරි කරවමින්. ලෝක සෞඛ්‍ය සංවිධානය ඉදිරිපත් කරන වාර්තා වලට අනුව වසරකට සියදිවි […]
One too many butterflies
You know that feeling before an exam or before your music or dance recital, where you get a little nervous and people say that it is okay to have butterflies in your stomach? What if that feeling of nervousness haunted you day in and day out? What if your day is full of worry, tension, […]
Ageing with dignity, not dread
One glance at the calendar and you’d realize that today’s the first of October. Let’s be honest. What would be the first thought to cross your mind? Children’s day. Of course. Then for the afterthought: Oh, its elders’ day as well. Any chance anyone out there could beg to differ? Didn’t think so. Elders’ […]
We are the ones who make a brighter day, so let’s start giving…
Malala Yousafzai, Bryson Foster, Iqbal Masih, Ryan White and much popular Greta Thunberg are a few names that strike our mind when spoken about activism. If you take a look at their life stories, you will be able to see that they began their journey as activists starting at a very young age yet have […]
ගුණදම් මනුදම් කැටිකරලා එකට, උත්තම පුරවැසි පුදනෙමු බැති පෙරට
අද සැනසුම වෙනුවෙන් ඊයේ කළ වීරිය ඔය මුහුණින් පෙනෙන්නෙ ඒ අපමණ දහිරිය අව්ව වැස්ස රෑ දහවල පරදා ගෝරිය අම්මෙ තාත්තේ අමිලයි නිම කළ කාරිය ලේ මස් රුව අපි වෙනුවෙන් කැප කරලා දහඩිය කඳුළැලි අපමණ වගුරුවලා දෑතෙ දෙපයෙ සවිබල අප වෙත පුදලා වඳින්න අවසර ගුණ ගැබ සිහිකරලා තිබිලත් වේදනා රිදුම් මහ උසට දරන්න බැරි […]
තරු විසිතුරු බබළනා, පුංචි සිනා ඉතිරෙනා
ඉරෙන් හඳෙන් එළිය අරන් බබළවලා ගහෙන් වැලෙන් සුවඳ ගෙනත් සරසවලා ඇළෙන් දොළෙන් ඒ සිසිළෙන් සනසවලා පුංචි අයගෙ ලෝකයෙ ලස්සන පිරිලා ගඟට ගිහිං ඔරු පැදලා එකතු වෙලා මල් නෙළලා කවි කියලා සිනහ සලා ගෙඩි කඩලා ගොඩට ඇවිත් සතුටු වෙලා පුංචි පැංචො මිහිර ගෙනෙති රස මවලා දැන් නිවාඩු මේ සෙල්ලම් කාලේ ඔන්න කෝච්චියෙන් ගමේ පැත්තෙ […]
Reminiscence of the 17th installation ceremony
It was the 20th of July amidst the first semester exams when Mindula ayya informed us about the 17th installation of the Rotaract club of the Faculty of Science. The ceremony was scheduled to be held on the 28th of August. We were told that it was an important occasion where the committee members for […]
Hello English
One early morning, as we few of us were idling before the first lecture for the day, Rtr. Praneeth appeared out of nowhere, looking thoughtful. Bit late to university, having arrived after teaching Maths for 2 hours, early in the morning to students of his former school, he explained and sat down ready for a […]
Story behind the 16th Installation Ceremony…
This is basically how it all started. One Tuesday afternoon, just after the final paper of the 1st Semester Examination, the President, Jalak Ayya announced that 27th of August was going to be an important day and that he needed 3 CO s from the 1st year batch to organize it. The first position up […]
පුතේ ඉස්සර මමත්…
පුතේ ඉස්සර මමත් නුඹ මෙන් තරුණ කොල්ලෙක් හැඩි දැඩී වයස ගතවී කෙසුත් පැහුණේ ගතේ වාරුව දුබල වී… ගතේ සවියට දෙවෙනි නැත ඒ හිතේ සවි තවමත් ඇතී දිවි ගමන ගත වන්න ඕනේ කොහොමදැයි උපදෙස් දෙතී…. නොමැත තරහක් කිසිවෙකුත් ගැන සුහද ඔහු හිනැහෙන හැටී ඇත්තමයි පිය සෙනෙහසට නම් ලියවුණා මදි ගී කවී….. ~ සලුනි චනීශා ~
