BHUBANESWAR: A 30-member delegation of information officers of Sri Lankan government met Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi at Lok Seva Bhawan on Tuesday. Welcoming the delegates, who are on a five-day ...

Chairing the late H.L. de Silva Memorial Events in 2012, the ex-Foreign Secretary H.M.G.S. Palihakkara openly questioned ...

Sri Lankan anthropologist Professor Gananath Obeyesekere’s book The Doomed King: A Requiem for Sri Vikrama Rajasinha delves into the life of Sri Vikrama Rajasinha, the last king of Sri Lanka, and ...

In the second part of our exclusive serialisation of Boris Becker’s searingly honest account of his time in prison, the ...

Famine is defined as extreme and widespread hunger, often leading to death. Ancient Sri Lanka experienced at least one famine, recorded as ‘Baminithiyaseya’ in the Anuradhapura period, when monks ate ...

It happens every year, but when daylight hours shrink and any remaining sun is suffocated by thick clouds, moods easily ...

There is a pleasure for readers in walking streets known from the pages of books. Taking literary walking tours in London, Paris, New York or Dublin, ...

With its gentle hills, winding valleys and timeless villages of honey-hued stone, the Cotswolds is idyllic England made manifest. That spirit is deftly captured by the finest of the district’s ...

In her Last Word column, Pamela Goodman details how her children’s great-grandfather's belief that he was a reincarnated member of the religious sect inspired a recent family holiday.

From ancient temples to colonial marvels, these 5 must-visit monuments in East India reveal the region's rich heritage and ...

The mysterious Sibylline Books were secretly kept Greek oracle collections that the rulers of ancient Rome consulted in times ...