Professor J. B. Dissanayake, the well-known scholar and author, will be honoured with the launch of a festschrift that ...

While the incumbent government took exemplary initiatives to declare three distinct forest complexes as forest reserves apart ...

As minority politics collapses and ethnic tensions simmer, a new study urges the Anura Dissanayake-led NPP government to ...

Ngugi’s few short stories were translated into Sinhala and appeared in a periodical. Bobby B. Boteju included translations of ...

No IPKF commander or reputed Indian reporter ever claimed in retrospect that had the IPKF stayed on, Prabhakaran and the ...

Ms. Fonseka was also a Member of Parliament representing President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s alliance from 2010 to 2015, through the ‘National List’, which allots seats to political parties based on their ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- More than 2,000 people gathered ... Known as Aluth Avurudda in Sinhala and Puthandu in Tamil, this major festival marks the end of the harvest season and the beginning ...

They’re a blend of Colombo Chetty, Sinhala, Ceylon Tamil, Indian Tamil ... International trade and colonialism have had a huge impact on Sri Lanka’s culinary history. The island nation’s cuisine is ...

The island fell under Portuguese and Dutch influence ... Separate media outlets cater for Sinhala, Tamil and English speaking audiences. Those in Sinhala have the largest audiences.

due to the furious opposition of Sinhala chauvinist extremists who declare that it would amount to dividing the island. ITAK’s support for SJB candidate Premadasa is undoubtedly bound up with ...

The Sinhala script is based on one of the two most important scripts ... is generally credited with introducing the Brahmi script along with Buddhism to this island. That was in the 3rd century before ...