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By Promod de Silva
Workers around the world celebrate May Day, also known as Labour Day and International Workers’ Day, tomorrow. It is a national holiday in more than 80 countries including Sri Lanka and the event is celebrated in some of the most staunchly capitalist countries too. Incidentally, the US, where the concept of May Day originated in the first place, now celebrates Labour Day...
The Sun has been so pivotal to our ancient civilisation that we still continue many of the practices that our ancestors engaged in, giving prominence to the life-giving Sun and Nature. Many of those practices and beliefs were intertwined with astrology, the ‘science’ of reading our lives with the help of celestial objects. Hence, the transition of the Sun from Pisces (...
By Promod de Silva
Drones are back in the news again. Suspected drone activity near London Gatwick (IATA Code GTW), home to the world’s busiest...