A note on a father
It was one of those phone calls that one would always remember, the shock it generates pervades all through a lifetime. On Monday 17 August 2009, I received a phone call from…
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Imagine and innovate to honour Sir Arthur C Clarke!
Sir Arthur C Clarke on Hikkaduwa beach, photo by Rohan de Silva Sir Arthur’s 90th birthday reflections (effectively his public goodbye) is available online at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qLdeEjdbWE&feature=channel_page During his illustrious career spanning over 60…
Old Truths and Old Men
Stupid Old Men I don’t want to end up being a stupid old man Just look at what they have done to our world in vain What’s the big deal in going…
Anti-competitive Activities, the source of rice crisis
Rice, which is the staple food in Sri Lanka, has become the subject of a national issue today. Government appears to being in the dark as to how to tackle issues confronting…
Groundviews back online, with new features and enhanced for mobile phones
is fully back online after an upgrade of its back-end content management system to the latest version of WordPress. While the site looks and feels the same, improvements under the hood make…
Scheduled downtime for Groundviews
Groundviews will be down tomorrow, 10th April, for a scheduled upgrade. The site should be up and running as normal by 11th April the latest, but we don’t really expect it to…
Some rudimentary thoughts on Arthur C. Clarke’s funeral
There may have been some two to three hundred mourners at his funeral. Most of them seemed to have been his close acquaintances or those known to him at least remotely. I…
A Punchi Problem
Dr. Rohan Edirisinghe, in a recent paper he compiled quoted G.K. Chesterton in ‘The Point of a Pin’ – it isn’t that they don’t see the solution, it’s that they can’t see…
Royal Thomian revisited
Read for the full article. This year, Royal batting proved as virile as the Queen Mother. The scoreboard at the time of writing: 09.45am – Toss won by S.Thomas’ College and STC…
A Day at the Cricket
By Mark Gereis True sub-continental cricket is a freak phenomenon that hits Australia’s shores once every two or three years. I deliberately use the word ‘freak’ because I can’t explain it –…
New email subscription service and Facebook integration
Groundviews is pleased to announce a new email subscription service (powered by RSSFwd) that enables you to conveniently receive all new content posted on the site in your Inbox. The new service…