The culmination of Avurudu preparations in my childhood with my grandparents was marked by the ritual of Kevum-making.

On the 21st of March, 1952, mournful shockwaves shook the entire nation with the sudden announcement that the First Prime Minister and the beloved “Father of the Nation”, passed away following an ...

On March 25, the renowned Sri Lankan social anthropologist Prof. Gananath Obeyesekere of Princeton University, passed away leaving academia across the world immeasurably poorer. Till his last breath, ...

Thousands of acres of farmland were destroyed by the foreigners and King Rajasinghe, was captured and deposed. Mass murders were committed on civilians, and Patriot, Keppetipola Disawe ...

Newton Gunasinghe, a pioneering Sri Lankan sociologist and Marxist scholar, made significant contributions to the study of ...

Thus, the Dalada Exposition of the Sacred Tooth Relic to be held from 18 April to 28 April is directly connected to the ...

Destiny is very strange. Our last queen, Queen Rengammal hangs in a gilt-framed glass case adjacent to a drawing of the last king of Lanka, Sri Wickrema Rajasinghe and just behind the king"s ornate ...