The Martin Wickramasinghe museum is the ideal place to explore the memory of the “Sage of Koggala”, as he was lovingly referred to. The folk museum comprises his ancestral home, his resting place, the ...

Blowing back to a red-hot history A model of a wind-powered furnace newly set up in the Martin Wickramasinghe museum in Koggala brings to life an ancient iron smelting industry. By Renuka Sadanandan, ...

The cerulean Koggala lagoon was once a haven to a rich ecological system. It was also a beauty which was described with much fondness by the famous author Martin Wickramasinghe in his masterpieces ...

Martin Wickramasinghe was the most popular and the best writer during the previous century. He depicted some actual points in his novels by using characters from his village, Koggala, who were real.

By Uditha Devapriya The novelist Last Saturday marked the 131st birth anniversary of Martin Wickramasinghe. In a career spanning 59 years – from his first work, Leela, published in 1914, to his last, ...

Martin Wickramasinghe’s whole point was that culture was never sterile: that it evolved, changed, and ruptured, from within and without. He championed, not the glories of some imagined past, but the ...