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As you get old – By Dr Harold Gunatillake Transcript: When you are young and healthy, you enjoy life, drink with friends, patronise the local restaurants frequently with your partner and social friends, not caring about your health, going through the stress of earning wealth, a challenge we all go through. When you are 60 and over, your life may change for a quieter life when you think of your health getting the early signs of an illness, in most cases. Let us today discuss such early symptoms of chronic illnesses that you can take care of. Knowing these early symptoms are very important to ward off most chronic diseases. Putting on weight due to excess eating the wrong foods and lack of exercise would be an early sign of many diseases. You lose your youthful profile and, in most cases, get a pot belly and more generalised underthe-skin fat ...

A story surrounding the fantasy of undefined relationships – By Chanuka Wattegama Source:dailymirror.lk What today’s Sinhala literature badly lacks are variety and avant-gardism. The Sinhala print text has been dominated for too long by the senior generation–dreary old men and women who are not in touch with modernity, grossly incapable of experimenting with fresh themes- having already run out of steam several decades ago, and continue to play the broken gramophone discs to audiences they discovered in the ‘80s. They may be the ones who are awarded literary honours, but they are not necessarily the ones read. Gen Zers would not touch them with a barge pole. Surath De Mel is not necessarily young. Still, he is skilled at touching ‘young’ themes that no other current author dares experiment with. Instead of middle-aged adulterous relationships, young aristocrats living in ancient mansions built by their great grandparents, poor peasants, corrupted ...