There is a clear effort to dilute Sri Lanka’s national identity, often presenting nationalism as divisive or extremist. Some ...

King Charles and Queen Camilla will arrive in Canada on May 26 and will depart on May 27. The British monarch and his spouse will be heading to the same continent where his son Prince Harry lives.

But King Parakramabahu IV, through diplomacy, returned it to Sri Lanka. Perhaps the most clandestine moment came during Portuguese expansion in the late 16th century. Buddhist institutions came under ...

A patrol ship presented by China in 2019 was named after Sri Lanka's historically popular King Parakramabahu.

It was built on the turtle back section of the natural rock. This shrine was supposedly constructed after the main shrine by King Parakramabahu V. The shrine consists of a central Stupa, built on a ...

By C. A. Chandraprema A video clip doing the rounds on web-based media platforms shows a former secretary of the agriculture ministry stating at a JJB (Malimawa) press conference that when Anura ...

The only inland ‘Samudraya’ (ocean) in Sri Lanka, Parakrama Samudraya in Polonnaruwa, named after the visionary King of ancient Ceylon, King Parakramabahu, built around 386 AD, is the most extensive ...

‘Questioning Paradigms, Constructing Histories — A Festschrift for Romila Thapar’ review: Many points of enquiry A celebration of Romila Thapar’s work also becomes a passionate discourse ...