Remembered Yesterdays by J. Godwin Perera Of those Burghers, Oh! Those Burghers, we can only dream In the Arts, in Sports, in Law , or the Groves of Academe They were the brightest of the bright, the ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — In Sri Lanka, a country torn by violence, the holiday season is perhaps most poignant for a small minority that has not been part of the ethnic strife at all. They call t… ...

Today only about 34,000 Burghers are left in the Sri Lanka - down from a high of 100,000. Before the tsunami, the community had planned to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Portuguese arrival in ...

Prophetic cartoons depicted rivalry between Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister and President months before the nation’s State Minister of Defense called the pair out for allowing their rivalry … ...

Who are the Portuguese Burghers, ... University will deliver a lecture via Zoom, focusing on these Portuguese descendants who have lived on the East Coast of Sri Lanka since the early 1600s.

On the East coast of Sri Lanka in the city of Batticaloa the Burgher community have preserved the music dancing and language of the Portuguese settlers of the 16th century.

After the British took possession of Galle in 1795-96, many Dutch officials who were settled in the Maritime Provinces of Ceylon went back to Holland or Batavia ...

“Sri Lanka has a history, a history which cannot be forgotten and erased,” he said. “If we fail to preserve our culture than everything and everyone will be the same.” Search for identity ...

The largest Burgher populations are found in Sri Lanka's biggest cities. Mr Boon travelled to Sri Lanka's second biggest city, Kandy, in search of his family history.

The two Lumanaws are the only “Indonesian Burghers” in Sri Lanka. Willem Ferdinand Lumanauw hailed from Tondano, a town in Northern Celebes, now known as the island of Sulaweisi, when present-day ...