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 ...

Young birder Lahiru Walpita begins most of his days at dawn by scanning the skies for seabirds along the coastline in ...

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 ...

Colombo, Sri Lanka – Sri Lanka’s embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned after fleeing to Singapore via the Maldives, bringing a dramatic end to the rule of the powerful Rajapaksa ...

The Netherlands said Thursday it will hand back hundreds of colonial-era artifacts to Indonesia and Sri Lanka, including a haul of treasure and a gem-encrusted bronze cannon.

Unveiling the lesser known in Sri Lankan History The second issue of The Ceylon Journal also explores lesser-known facets of Sri Lanka’s colonial history. Avishka Mario Senewiratne takes readers on a ...

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.

By Ifham Nizam The establishment of Sri Lanka’s iconic tea industry dates back to 1865, when tea seeds from the Botanic Gardens in Peradeniya were planted by the then superintendent of the ...

Malaiyaha Tamils of Sri Lanka: Shackled to a legacy of tea, toil for 200 years The tea industry of Sri Lanka has since grown by leaps and bounds in 200 years.