He assured that Sri Lanka’s present and future political agendas would not be shaped by racial lines.“ The Buddhist community ...

Three months after Sri Lanka was rocked by deadly anti-Muslim riots fuelled by online vitriol, Facebook is training its staff to identify inflammatory content in the country's local languages. The ...

I write to complement Mr. Sangadasa Akurugoda’s essay “Why get rid of our linguistic heritage, and move back to English?” in ‘The Island’ of 8th February 2021. This is nothing to get excited about. It ...

The March 2018 Sinhala-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka underline growing communal schisms in the island state. This article examines the rise of Sinhala ultra-nationalism and the violent groups primarily ...

Prof. Kulathilaka Kumarasinghe has taken a giant step in making the Short Story known to the wider English speaking world by compiling this anthology. He was able to present few writers who ...

Sinhala script had derived from Brahmi script that had given rise to almost all North and South Indian Scripts. In the older tradition, Brahmi has been classified into two subgroups namely Northern ...

Scholars at the Cornell University, USA, are fighting to keep alive a decades-old Sinhala language programme that is facing closure owing to funding cuts. Cornell, a renowned private Ivy League ...

New Delhi, May 18, 2023: Microsoft India announced today the addition of three new Indian languages Konkani, Maithili, and Sindhi, in Microsoft Translator. Along with this, Microsoft Translator will ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this article, I juxtapose the ways the "father of modern Sinhala drama" John De Silva, and the Sinhah language reformer, Munidasa ...

Here is the latest information on the preparations for this year's 'Melbourne Bak Maha Ulela' to be held on April 2nd at the Dandenong showground in Victoria, Australia. Mr. Prasanna Kurukularatne, ...