The first part of this article published last week briefly outlined the history of Sri Lanka’s national anthem being sung in ...

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Dr Upul Wijayawardhana How would the Buddha have looked like in real life?” This question was posed by Prof. Asanga Thilakaratna, the Chief Editor of the Encyclopaedia of Buddhism, during one of the ...

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In the second part of this series based on Eric Illayapparachchi’s seminal essay on the Sinhala song, we start with his views ...

After successfully advocating for justice in London, Sir Ponnampalam Ramanathan returned to Ceylon to a hero’s welcome. His tireless efforts to ...

Laleen Jayamanne and Namika Raby (Part I of this article appeared in The Island on Friday (31 Jan.) Women’s Mental Health: ...

Veteran Tamil political leader Somasundaram Senathirajah popularly known as “Maavai” Senathirajah breathed his last on 29 January 2025. The octogenarian six-footer suffered a brain concussion after a ...

The Northern Province, was created in 1833 by including the Nuwarakalavia District of the Sinhalese Kingdom (present-day Anuradhapura District* and the present-day Mullaitivu District, which included ...

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Sinhala language is believed to have arisen from Mid-Prakrit languages which belong to the Mid-Indo-Aryan language family. Prakrit was the term used to identify the vernacular languages that were ...