Sometimes travel gives you the funniest surprises ,like realizing dogs in Sri Lanka don’t speak English. During our stay, we ...

The winner, also of the State Literary Award, Chandrarathna Bandara is testimony to the richness of our local literary ...

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The greatest threat to stability today is not ideology or invasion, but the collapse of political legitimacy.” .

President Anura Kumara Dissaayake’s determination to ‘repeal and replace’ Sri Lanka’s Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) with a law that balances security concerns and civil liberties for ‘rights ...

His compatriots know him as a novelist. But scholars say he must be acknowledged as a modernist intellectual, significant for ...

Radio Ceylon, once a cultural powerhouse, captivated Indian listeners by defying a 1950s AIR ban on film songs. Its popular Hindi service and iconic shows like 'Binaca Geet Mala' forced AIR to compete ...

A non-Japanese-speaking first-time visitor used Apple’s new in-ear translation feature to connect with locals at bars, sushi ...

A couple of years ago, Sunil Sarath Perera published a collection of essays titled ‘Mathaka Nimnaya,’ or ‘The valley of ...

We are in this period – the days immediately following Christmas – December 25. The intense religious and festive two days ...

Clay Halton was a Business Editor at Investopedia and has been working in the finance publishing field for more than five years. He also writes and edits personal finance content, with a focus on ...

Radio Ceylon, one of the world’s oldest radio broadcasters, turned 100 last week. At a time when radio was a novelty and ...