The author of the famous fantasy book series “Harry Potter” (J.K. Rowling) will be releasing a book that is mentioned in the last book in her series “The Deathly Hallows” called “The Tales of the Beedle Bard” to the general public. This i…

Image via Wikipedia The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling is now available for pre-order on Amazon. This book of fairy tales was written to supplement the Harry Potter series and will be published in two new editions on December 4, 2008. The Standard Edition features all five fairy tales from […]

Robin Sharma, the Author says: “When you live your truth, your dreams beat a path toward your doorstep”.Robin S. Sharma is an acclaimed international guru who guides readers towards enlightenment. The success of his best seller The monk Who Sold His Fe…

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t is a management book by James C. Collins that aims to describe how companies transition from being average companies to great companies and how companies can fail to make the transitio…

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This last post reminded me how much I rue the fact that Sri Lanka doesn’t have good book stores. The Vijitha Yapa is not really a book store, it’s a small book-shop. There’s no place to just chill, read …

Ever since Stevens, Levitt and Dubner broke into the scene with their enormously popular Freakonomics, there has been a multitude of popular economics books. Books that uses the tools of economics — the study of incentives, laws of supply and demand, …

Some universities conduct a special lecture for their senior professors called the last lecture. the lecturer would imagine that it is their last lecture to the academic world and would speak on what mattered to him/her most. He would simply explain the legacy he would leave after his death.
With this in mind, I’ll tell you […]

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According to Cato’s blog, the movie of Any Rand’s Atlas Shrugged is finally set to start shooting later this year.Scott Holleran at Box Office Mojo is all over the Atlas Shrugged movie project. A few days ago he talked to Michael Burns, vice chairman o…

Clarke lived in Sri Lanka from 1956 until his death in 2008, having emigrated there when it was still called Ceylon, first in Unawatuna on the south coast, and then in Colombo. Clarke held citizenship of both the UK and Sri Lanka.He was an avid scuba diver and a member of the Underwater Explorers Club. […]

When we first thought of Kola Kenda, we were thinking of ways in which to build a common Sri Lankan identity, we thought a feel-good book about Sri Lanka would be one way of going about it. We felt we don’t need back into thousands of years in our history to find a bit of […]