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 ...

“Our dance and music always brings the community together,” said Barthelot, who lives in Batticaloa in Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province, where he is a founding member of the band Burgher Folks.

Portuguese words in South Asian languages highlight areas of cross-cultural contact and cultural exchange: religion, education, furniture, architecture, music, dance, flora, fauna, temporal elements, ...

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 ...

SAN GABRIEL >> When Medini Ratnayake and her husband, Asela, founded the Serendib Foundation for Music & Performing Arts ten years ago, the couple wanted to present programming to promote… ...

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 ...