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Sri Lanka can be best described as south Asia in miniature form, filled with beaches, elephants, tea plantations, curries, ...
From matchstick tapestries to digital mythologies, textile archives to ecological cartographies — an exhibition in ...
Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga – who celebrates her 80th birthday on 29 June 2025 – made history in November 1994 when ...
Kirsch suggests that as the theory of settler colonialism developed, what began as a tool to distinguish between forms of ...
LGBTQ+ Sri Lankans face violence, while promises by the government to repeal colonial-era laws remain unmet.
India halts auction of sacred Buddha relics unearthed at Piprahwa in 1898. Scholars demand repatriation over colonial legacy.
Nestled in the eastern edge of Sri Lanka’s Uva province, Nilgala stands out as a landscape of remarkable ecological and ...
Sri Lanka stunned England with a dramatic final-ball Test win at Headingley, sealing a historic series victory.
There is a clear effort to dilute Sri Lanka’s national identity, often presenting nationalism as divisive or extremist. Some ...
As UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk visits Sri Lanka from 23–26 June 2025, it is imperative that he not ...
Beyond the Struggle is an exhibition amplifying the voice of the Malaiyaha Tamil community through their own images and ...
A 2001 government census (PDF) says Sri Lanka’s main ethnic populations are the Sinhalese (82 percent), Tamil (9.4 percent), and Sri Lanka Moor (7.9 percent).