“Aluth aluth dෑ nothanana jāthiya lova nonagī” (අලුත් අලුත් දෑ නොතනන ජාතිය ලොව නොනගී) is the striking quote pronounced by the legendary Buddhist Sinhalese scholar Munidasa Kumaratunga shortly before ...

To the young people of Sri Lanka, I offer this message from my own life: your beginnings do not determine your destination, but discipline, education and practical ability will shape the journey.

An ageing population is not merely a demographic challenge; it is a strategic national resource—provided we know how to harness its accumulated experience.} Sri Lanka’s latest Population Census has ...

The Rajapaksas were criticized at Galle Face in a shockingly vulgar, despicable manner. There were derogatory placards and slogans. These carried all the vulgar, obscene, offensive, filthy words in ...

This is both a warning and an opportunity for Sri Lanka. Too many youngsters are directed towards academic certificates while vocational careers are treated as a second-class alternative. Yet Sri ...

As the Tamil Diaspora also shares the very same neighborhoods and professions as the growing and influential Islamic population living in the UK, it is inevitable that the two communities mix. This is ...

Phillippe de Oliveira or Filipe de Oliveira (died 1627) was the conqueror of the Jaffna Kingdom in northern modern day Sri Lanka on behalf of the Portuguese Empire in 1619. He stayed behind as the ...

The forensic tagging spray now being used by British police deserves serious consideration in Sri Lanka. It is not really a weapon; it is an intelligent method of attaching evidence to a fleeing ...

OUR CHERISHED MEMORIES OF TWO LORD SRI KARTHIKEYA TEMPLES AT MAVETTAPURAM & NALLUR, JAFFNA PENNINSULA, SRI LANKA ...

A complete historical account of the rise and fall of the Nallur ‘Saraswati Mahal’ library, a noble symbol of the intellectual heritage of the Ceylon Tamils . During the reign of the Aryan emperors of ...

“No Government of Sri Lanka has so far ventured to establish a Commission of Inquiry to probe these Colonial atrocities directed against indigenous faiths, Buddhism and Hinduism, with a view to ...

As a keen student of Kandyan Affairs, I have long proposed the establishment of a distinct branch of inquiry under the rubric of Kandyan Studies. My own contributions include a series of articles on ...