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…Poetry oozes somewhere out of Colombo’s toxic Beira, surrounded by so-called modern ‘millennial’, ‘hi-tech’ companies and boutique hotels with fanciful but ultimately useless architecture, who are ...

The Kingdom of Kotte named after Kotte, the then capital of Sri Lanka first ruled by King Parakramabahu VI (1414-1467) ...

Kate’s books are highly plotted but her method is to create the characters, the place and make sure she knows the real ...

Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...

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I got to know Kasun De Silva or rather was privileged to see amazing landscapes, archaeological sites and human-scapes a few ...