The political Left in India and Sri Lanka have a conspicuously intertwined and parallel destiny spanning nearly a century.

If the Ramayana is a myth, an epic created in India revolving around Sita, Ram and Raavan the king of “Lanka”, promoting the ...

The article examines the complexities of Sri Lankan politics, particularly focusing on Anura Kumara Dissanayake and the Sinhala Buddhist vote. Despite Dissanayake garnering approximately 57,401 votes, ...

If Sri Lanka’s 70% Sinhala Buddhists are today surprised that their grievances are not being locally or internationally articulated the reasons lie with the Christian dominated media, the commercially ...

Sinhala: අනගාරික ධර්මපාල; 17 September 1864 – 29 April 1933) was a Sri Lankan Buddhist revivalist and a writer. In 1904, his friend, Anagarika Dharmapala, a Buddhist monk, attended one of his Harvard ...

Anura Gunasekera The wrath of a nation can be a fearful thing. In 2022 we saw its evolution and culmination in our own ...

The London Buddhist Vihara is one of the main Theravada Buddhist temples in the United Kingdom. The Vihara was the first Sri Lankan Buddhist monastery to be established outside Asia.

Vap full moon poya day is of special significance especially for Buddhists in Sri Lanka because of Katina Cheevara puja –the ...

Leader of the ‘Sarvajana Balaya’ alliance, entrepreneur Dilith Jayaweera says that if a noble opposition is created, it can ...

Delivered against the background of giant national flags and an atmosphere of nationalistic Sinhala-Buddhist fervor, the speech was only broadcast in Sinhala, ignoring the more than 20 percent ...