Monkeys were expected to be among the chief culprits identified as Sri Lanka carried out a nationwide survey on March 15 of ...

Soon, soon, to faithful warriors comes the rest” by Zingari Was it not sacriIege when for the first time in the history of ...

The loss of a large number of soldiers, along with the financial costs of the British expedition to Kandy, had convinced ...

Extracted with permission from Akashvani: A Century of Stories from All India Radio, Vikrant Pande and Neelesh Kulkarni, ...

It was not until 1815 with the signing of the Kandyan Convention that Britain gained power over the island. The advantages of ...

Gamini Akmeemana’s novel ‘The Shark Binder’ is a fascinating study of life in British-ruled Ceylon of the 1920s. It is also a fascinating hypothesis of inter-racial love between a young, idealistic ...

The 97th Academy Awards ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 2 ...

Robert Knox, a British sailor held captive in Sri Lanka during the 17th century, wrote about them in his 1681 book, An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon. Though he didn’t specifically ...

Line houses on a Sri Lankan tea estate at night.(Foreign Correspondent: Tom Joyner) Many date back to the colonial days of British Ceylon and appear to have changed little since then. On one ...

The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Published under the authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council. Edited by W. F. Blanford. “Moths.” Vol. i. By G.

The forester said the last record of the bird in Bengal is from 1980 in Ajoy Home’s 'Chena Achena Pakhi', where he mentions ...