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Who could have imagined that the incumbent government would name wartime President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s one-time emissary for talks with the top LTTE leadership, as Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner in Ottawa? Prominent civil society activist Harsha Kumara Navaratne, on Dec 07,..

Most accounts of education reform in British Ceylon focus on officials and administrators, rather than the people on the ground and the historical forces they had to contend with. Very little effort, indeed next to no effort, is made to..

The North and East was a part of the Buddhist civilization of the Anuradhapura kingdom. It was part of the Rajarata and came directly under the rule of the Sinhala king. Inscriptions show that Abhayagiri had monasteries outside Anuradhapura. Abhayagiri..

Dr.Jehan Perera Executive Director National Peace Council of Sri Lanka I read the statement by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s to the UN General Assembly which was short and dignified. Expressing his thoughts by saying that there is a need for a..

Former soldiers becoming Buddhist monks is not unheard of in the history of Sri Lanka. We have examples from the time of King Dutthagamani whose army fought successfully with invading foreign forces and some of them finally ending as Buddhist..

There was a unique type of Vihara called the ‘Tampita Vihara’ during the Kandyan period. The Tampita Vihara is a temple on pillars. Its most prominent feature is that it is mounted on stone pillars or dwarfed rock pillars. This..

In November 1927, Mahatma Gandhi and Kasturbai Gandhi arrived in Galle. They were the chief guests at the prize-giving of Mahinda College, on the 24th. The Olcott Memorial Assembly Hall of the College was filled to capacity. Never was there..

If you do not respect one, you do not respect the other two also. Receiving a basic degree or even a PhD is no reason to shun those who teach the Dhamma. Colombo University has for decades been the hunting..

Unduvap Poya which falls on Saturday, December 18, is the last Full Moon Poya Day of the year. This day commemorates the arrival of Sangamitta Theri in Sri Lanka with a Bo sapling from the sacred Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi..

There was a time Douglas Wickramaratne, President of the Sinhala Association in the UK, had to be given protection by Scotland Yard after he came under threat for exposing the blatant falsehoods propagated by the LTTE to win the support..