By Uditha Devapriya (with Uthpala Wijesuriya) Most accounts of education reform in British Ceylon focus on officials and administrators, rather than the people on the ground...
Ruminations on Sri Lanka’s ancient past – Part VIII By Seneka Abeyratne In Metals and Metal Use in Ancient Sri Lanka, 1991-92, P.V.B Karunatilaka claims that,...
By Uditha Devapriya For Sinhala nationalists, I daresay the history of Sri Lanka remains the history of the Sinhala people. This begs two questions: one, who...
Ruminations on Sri Lanka’s Ancient Past – Part VII By Seneka Abeyratne While the building of small-scale irrigation reservoirs or minor tanks was undertaken largely by...
At Home – Part III By Ransiri Menike Silva When Peeping Tom’s room fell vacant it was snapped up by a terminally ill cancer patient from...
Ruminations on Sri Lanka’s Ancient Past – Part VI By Seneka Abeyratne The evidence assembled by C.R. Panabokke, in ‘Evolution of the Indigenous Village Irrigation Systems...
Ridi Vihare: The Flowering of Kandyan Art Dr. SinhaRaja Tammita-Delgoda Stamford Lake Publications, 2006, pp. 210, Rs 3,750 Reviewed by Uditha Devapriya This is a fascinating...
At Home By Ransiri Menike Silva Having taken ‘Shorta’ off my list, I was faced with another problem, whom should I write about next? I decided...
By Uditha Devapriya Review of Phantoms of the Night: Wildcats of Sri Lanka Thilak Jayaratne, Janaka Gallangoda, Nadika Hapuarachchi, and Madura de Silva Chaya Publishers, 2022,...
Part IV As all cinema – goers in Sri Lanka know, the gallery is known as “The Gallows”. Long years ago, one Saturday night at a...