Capitalising on the Why-Ai rhyme, Sri Lanka's pop group Gypsies has come out with a new album that is selling fast like a Paris Hilton poster. What is significant about the album is that its songs ...

Sri Lanka is now seeing an effervescent anti-Portuguese movement, with articles being written in the papers, and seminars being held under the auspices of prestigious institutions, on the ...

“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 ...

Although few are aware of the existence of this language, SLPC is spoken by the Portuguese Burghers in Sri Lanka. When the Portuguese colonised the maritime areas of Sri Lanka, this language was ...

Starting at 6 p.m., Professor Kenneth David Jackson of Yale University will deliver a lecture via Zoom, focusing on these Portuguese descendants who have lived on the East Coast of Sri Lanka since ...

In 1505, the Portuguese came to Ceylon, as Sri Lanka was then called, in a trade agreement with King Vira Parakramabahu VII and later intervened in succession struggles in local kingdoms.