Empire's Children is a novel by Dr Patricia Weerakoon, who speaks about how her childhood in upcountry, Sri Lanka inspired the story.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Sri Lanka has decided to remove all remaining references to its British colonial name Ceylon from state institutions. Ceylon gained independence from Britain in 1948 and ...

Golding, D. (2018) The colonial and neoliberal roots of the public-private education debate in Sri Lanka. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies,16(1), 145–174. Liyanage, I. (2019) Language ...

In Sri Lanka and India we see the seeds of a new possibility, of a world that is neither colonial nor postcolonial, of a regime that governs not in reaction to the past but in preparation for the ...

Sri Lanka's Protestant community is quite small, constituting only 1% of Sri Lanka's population. Like Catholicism, it was through colonialism that Protestant Christianity gained a foothold on the ...

The bicentenary of the arrival of Tamil indentured labourers in Sri Lanka also points to the unfulfilled task of nation-building in the island-nation May 18, 2025 e-Paper LOGIN Account ...

Sri Lanka's government has decided to change the names of all state institutions still bearing the nation's former British colonial name, Ceylon. The government wants the country's modern name to ...

People view colonial-era artifacts that have been returned from the Netherlands, at the main Museum in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Dec. 5, 2023.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka has decided to remove all remaining references to its British colonial name Ceylon from state institutions. Ceylon gained independence from Britain in 1948 and ...