By Admiral Ravindra C Wijegunaratne (Retired from Sri Lanka Navy) Former Chief of Defence Staff A long time ago, on 01 April 1881, Royal College (then...
By Uditha Devapriya Dileepa Perera’s biography of Tissa Liyanasuriya does more than tell a story. Full of sharp insights and historical anecdotes, it places us in...
By Uditha Devapriya (With input from Dhananjaya Samarakoon) In 1965 the Sri Lankan government published the findings of a Commission of Inquiry into the Film Industry....
By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana Elizabeth II, the Queen of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms, is also the Head of the Commonwealth of Nations,...
By Uditha Devapriya With input from and photographs by Manusha Lakshan The social and cultural history of Buddhist temples in Sri Lanka has been the object...
By Dr. Laleen Jayamanne Art history annedotally The pioneering Viennese Art Historian Alois Riegl wrote a book that was not very popular among traditional Anglo-American art...
By Uditha Devapriya Review of Padma Rao Sunderji’s Sri Lanka: The New Country HarperCollins India, 2015, INR 499, 322 pages What does it mean to be...
By Admiral Ravindra C Wijegunaratne (Retired from Sri Lanka Navy) Former Chief of Defence Staff The St Antony’s Church feast at Kachchativu was celebrated on 10...
by Sunil Dharmabandhu U.K. Email: sunilrajdharm@yahoo.co.uk Since 2002, the World Happiness Report has used statistical analysis to determine the world’s happiest countries. In its 2021 update,...
By Uditha Devapriya In his book on the rock and wall paintings of Sri Lanka, Senake Bandaranayake questions whether the southern tradition of Buddhist temple art...