BY Sunera Bandara Courtesy The Morning The Madras famine of 1867, when the British empire failed to positively intervene during a long and destructive drought, while also attempting to cut back on welfare costs, bears the hallmark of a most noteworthy and tragic colonial failure to be remembered rather than the celebration of 200 years […]

Anurasiri Kottegoda We have a proud history. We had great kings They made magnificent structures. These amazing achievements are in awe even today. Tourists flock to see these cultural heritage because they do not have such in their own nations. They come to visit Ruwanweli Maha Seya, 60,000,000 tons of bricks used to make Jetawanaramaya, […]

By Dr. Rajkumar Singh Courtesy Ceylon Today Ashoka, the Great, was a prominent Mauryan emperor who ruled over a vast empire in India from 273 BCE to 232 BCE. After his famous military conquest of the Kalinga kingdom, he underwent a spiritual transformation and embraced Buddhism. His conversion to Buddhism led to a significant shift […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 4:  The High Commission of India in Sri Lanka is holding a special exhibition of India’s rich Buddhist heritage as part of the Buddha Rashmi National Vesak Festival at Seemamalakaya, Gangaramaya Temple in Colombo. The exhibition shows the digital recreations of the Ajanta cave paintings marks the Buddhist festival of Vesak. […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 4: The Pakistan High Commission set up a Pakistan Pavilion near Gangaramaya Temple, Colombo as part of the National celebrations of Buddha Rashmi” Vesak Festival, 2023. The soft inaugural of the festival was done by the President of Sri Lanka Rani Wickremesinghe on 3rd May. During the visit, the President and […]

Courtesy Adaderana During a discussion on the 178th Anniversary of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka (RASSL) at the Mahaweli Centre on Thursday (April 27), President Ranil Wickremesinghe shared his intentions to establish the Institute of History, with the aim of bringing together the museum, archives, archaeology, cultural triangle, and universities with the RASSL […]

 Lanka Lead News රවිඩ භාෂාව කතාකරන ජනයා මේ රටේ මුල්ම ජනාවාස ඇති කළ බව හා සිංහලයන් පැවතගෙන එන්නේද ඔවුන්ගෙන් බවට පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී සී.වී. විග්නේෂ්වරන් මහතා පවසන ප්‍රකාශය කිසිම පදනමක් නැති ප්‍රකාශයක් බව මහාචාර්ය රාජ් සෝමදේව මහතා යළිත් වරක් පෙන්වා දී තිබේ. එම ප්‍රකාශයේ ජීව විද්‍යාත්මක හෝ වාග්විද්‍යාත්මක පරදනමක් නොමැති බවත්, එය අවිද්‍යාත්මක ප්‍රකාශයක් පමණක් බවත් […]

Citti Media Jeffrey Armstrong provides rare insights into the history of Euro-Christian colonialism + how Britain’s $45 trillion India loot was sanctioned by the Church.

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Dr Raoul McLaughlin

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Lanka Lead News ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ සිංහල ජනතාව පරිනාමය වන්නේ දෙමළ ජනතාවගෙන් බවට උතුරු පළාත් හිටපු මහ ඇමැති සී.වී. විග්නේෂ්වරන් සිදුකළ ප්‍රකාශය පිළිබදව මහාචාර්ය රාජ් සෝමදේව මහතා අදහස් දක්වා ඇත. ඒ අනුව විග්නේෂ්වරන් සදහන් කරන ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ මුල් පදිංචිකරුවන් වූ දෙමළ ජනතාව කතාකර ඇත්තේ සිංහල භාෂාවය.

Shinu Anna Abraham St. Lawrence University Asian Perspectives, Volume 42, Number 2, Fall 2003, pp. 207-223 (Article) Abstract For the southern Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, the most important documentary source for information on early South lndian culture is a body of prose poetry known as the Sangam anthology. These indigenous texts date […]

විමල් පටබැඳිගේ (ශාස්ත‍්‍රවේදී, නීතිඥ, විශ‍්‍රාමික සොලිසිටර්) (පළමුවෙනි කොටසෙන්)පොළොන්නරුවේ අංක 1 සහ 2 සිව කෝවිල් දෙක හැර ප‍්‍රදේශයේ වෙනත් සිව/හින්දු කෝවිල් නොවූ බව සහ ද්‍රවිඩය’යි විශේෂයෙන් සඳහන් කළ හැකි ගොඩනැගිලි කිසිවක් චෝල ආක‍්‍රමණ යට පෙර නොවූ බව සිංහලයේ ද්‍රවිඩ සිහිවටන පිළිබඳ විමසුමක නිරත වූු මහාචාර්ය නන්දසේන මුදියන්සේ ප‍්‍රකාශ කරයි. චෝල ආක‍්‍රමණිකයන් පළවාහැරීමෙන් පසු පළමුවෙනි විජයබාහු රජු […]

විමල් පටබැඳිගේ (ශාස්ත‍්‍රවේදී, නීතිඥ, විශ‍්‍රාමික සොලිසිටර්) කුරුඳුගමුරට පුරාණයව්‍ය.ව. 1815 දක්වා කුරුඳුගමුරට යනුවෙන් හඳුවනු ලැබූ, සිංහල රාජ්‍ය පාලන කොට්ඨාශයට දිවයිනේ නැගෙනහිර යාන්ඔය, මාඔය සහ පේර්ආරු ආදී ගංගා නිම්න ආශි‍්‍රත භූමි ඇතූළත් වී ඇත. ඒ භූමිය ලීිග් දහයක මුහුදු තීරයක් සහ රට තුළට ලීග් අටකට වැඩි භූමි ප‍්‍රදේශයක් වූ බව පුර්තුගීසි ජාතික රිබෙයිරෝ සඳහන් කරයි.1 ව්‍ය.ව. 1876 […]

Courtesy Rediff News Image: The disputed structure in SrinagarPhotographs: Umar Ganai Look at the picture carefully. This nondescript Muslim shrine in Kashmir has shot into the international limelight after many believers claimed it was where Jesus Christ was laid to rest. Inquisitive visitors– mostly Westerners–have started flocking to the shrine, forcing the caretakers to close down the religious structure. Rediff.com‘s Mukhtar […]

Senaka Weeraratna The most important question that people particularly Buddhists should ask themselves is, What are the lessons that we can learn from the total destruction of Nalanda University in the 12th Century? The answer lies in the necessity of Self Defense and the improvement of our abilities of Buddhist resistance.  If the Buddhists cannot defend […]

By Sana Jamal/Gulf News Islamabad December 19: One of the world’s oldest Buddhist temples discovered last year in Pakistan has been featured in the ‘Top 10 Discoveries of 2022’ by the renowned Archaeology Magazine. The temple was uncovered in the town of Barikot in the Swat region of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province. The […]

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Courtesy Entertainment Times Ashok Kumar Kainth, a historian is reportedly threatening legal action against the makers of ‘Ram Setu’ starring Akshay Kumar in the lead.According to reports, the Punjabi, who heads the department of Ramayan Research Committee in Sri Lanka, alleged that his research work and life story have been used in the film without his permission. Read Also‘Ram […]

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Seema Guha Courtesy Outlook India The epic tale says that Ram with the help of Hanuman and Sugriv rescued Sita from Ravan. The epic also mentions that a bridge was constructed by the Vanaras to help Ram and his army cross the ocean. The Ramayan continues to evoke passions in the faithful on both sides […]

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By Howard W. French Courtesy The Nation British colonials with a pet cheetah in Secunderabad, India, 1906. (Hulton Archive / Getty Images) In 2005, Britain’s then–Labour chancellor of the exchequer, Gordon Brown, chose the backdrop of Tanzania to make a dramatic statement about his nation’s unmatched record of imperial conquest and rule. The time is long gone,” […]

by Satyajith Andradi Courtesy The Island Sri Lanka continues to be in the grips of many high profile crises of recent origin such as the COVID–19 pandemic, chronic difficulties in servicing foreign debts, shortages of essential items such as food and fuel, skyrocketing cost of living, and crop failures due to the ban of chemical […]

By Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani Courtesy The News Today, on February 4, the people of Sri Lanka are celebrating their 74th Independence Day to commemorate their freedom and sovereignty from British imperialism. The 5,000-year-old ancient island is also described in the sacred Hindu book ‘Ramayana’ as Lanka where Sri Ram had fought with the demon king […]

P.K. Balachandran/Daily Mirror Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, January 25: The name of Anagarika Dharmapala (1864-1933) is deeply etched in the history of Buddhism as the man who passionately and single-mindedly (if not single-handedly), strove to liberate the Buddhist shrine at Buddhagaya in North India from the clutches of a Hindu priest. Sadly, Dharmapala could not achieve […]

By Seneka Abeyratne Courtesy The Island Brahmi inscription on a drip ledge at Vessagiriya, Anuradhapura. Pic courtesy: Preethi de Silva Ruminations on Sri Lanka’s ancient past – Part X By Seneka Abeyratne A distinguishing feature of the Early Historic Period, between 500 BCE and 300 CE, is the dramatic appearance of lithic Brahmi inscriptions, which […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The fossilised skeletal remains of a herd of Rhinoceros that died in a meteoric shower more than 80,000 years ago have been unearthed from an 80ft deep gem mine at the foot of Rilaulu hill range in Lunugala in Modalsima. Biologist of the Post Graduate Institute of Archaeology Kelum Nalinda Manamendra […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Governor William Gregory’s term from 1872 to 1877 was the golden age” of Ceylon coffee Colombo: Today, Sri Lanka is synonymous with tea and not coffee. As on date, it is way down in the list of coffee producing countries, 43 rd. to be precise. But back in the 1870s, Ceylon, as Sri […]