Since Sri Lanka’s independence from the British in 1948, the engine of Sinhala politics has been to profit from racial and religious divides: Sinhala against Tamil, Buddhist against Muslim ...

Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road, Transport and Highways and Shipping in India has twitted that he met Sri Lankan PM and discussed about the road linkage between India and Sri Lanka. But further ...

JAFFNA/MULLAITIVU: In the Tamil-majority northern province of Sri Lanka, as a road turns uphill towards Old Chemmalai, near the scenic Nayaru Lagoon in Mullaitivu district, there stands a statue ...

By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana To say that our national anthem has had a rocky road, perhaps, is a gross underestimation. Afterall, the composer of this beautiful anthem sacrificed his life because of a ...

Rooted in longstanding grievances, including discriminatory policies against Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority, the conflict saw the LTTE seeking an independent state in the North and East of Sri Lanka.

The incidence of road accidents in Sri Lanka is on the rise, leading to a growing number of fatalities and injuries. Recognizing the urgent need to raise public awareness on accident prevention and ...

Out of Sri Lanka: Tamil, Sinhala and English Poetry from Sri Lanka and its DiasporasEdited by Vidyan Ravinthiran, Seni Seneviratne, Shash Trevett.Penguin Random House.Pages 424.

Three months after Sri Lanka was rocked by deadly anti-Muslim riots fuelled by online vitriol, Facebook is training its staff to identify inflammatory content in the country’s local languages ...

The March 2018 Sinhala-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka underline growing communal schisms in the island state. This article examines the rise of Sinhala ultra-nationalism and the violent groups primarily ...