In the summer of 1983, ethnic violence swept the island nation of Sri Lanka. Known as Black July, the outbreak of communal violence between the Sinhalese majority and Tamil minority communities left ...

A particular colonial legacy that has since become proudly local is tea, which was introduced in Sri Lanka by the British. Walk through one of the many tea estates in and around Nuwara Eliya and ...

Dutch to return colonial treasures to Indonesia, Sri Lanka - Europe - The Jakarta Post. ... The Netherlands has been wrestling with the legacy of its colonial past in recent years.

Michael Meyler’s article on Richard Boyle, a British-born artist and scholar who spent much of his life in Sri Lanka, brings attention to the legacy of this modern-day Robert Knox. ... Journal’s ...

Young Senanayake brothers, FR, DC, and DS and their contemporaries laid the groundwork during the 1915 struggles for independence, culminating in Sri Lanka’s sovereignty 33 years later.

As I ventured into the heart of Sri Lanka’s highlands, Kandy unfolded like a vivid tapestry, woven with threads of its colonial past and the lush, green vibrancy of its famous tea plantations.