In the opening paragraph Bhikku Mahanama, the Father of Sri Lankan history, makes it clear that he didn’t sit down to write the Mahavamsa because he had oodles of time hanging on his hands and ...

The venerable Koswatte Mahanama Thero played a key role in the protest at Galle Face. A number of activists and others linked to the protest at Galle Face have been arrested over the past few days.

Yet Mahavamsa was written in what Tennekone called bambabasa (the language of the brahmas) with which almost all people were unfamiliar. Did Mahanama want only bhikkhu and a few privileged laymen to ...