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57 editor Today we have a Sri Lankan nation that is sufficiently matured to understand this. Through the entirety of the past four years we had to struggle with these forces...We will not allow a single inch of the land that you won by the
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The quiet dignity of Sri Lanka A nuradhapura isn't a city you can traverse on foot. A bicycle (LKR 550 per day) or a tuk-tuk (LKR 1500 for a four-hour trip of the eight most popular spots in the city and LKR 100 per extra hour) is the most preferred
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Craco, Italy T he history of Craco goes back to 540 AD when the Greeks had inhabited it. Craco's name itself can be traced back to 1060, a time when it belonged to Archbishop Arnaldo, Bishop of Tricarico. Since then, even though the town has changed
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The first phase of Sri Lanka's northern railway project -- funded by a line of credit facilitated by the Indian government was commissioned on Friday. Coaches in bright red chugged along from Medawachchiya in Anuradhapura, the North Central Province,
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The caste base of our cultural roots Basil Fernando Reconciliation has not been treated as an attractive word in Sri Lanka. The government's view is that forgetting is the best course available. It argues that reconciliation attempts could reopen the
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A 1,000-year-old Buddhist carved Indian-style temple step, found in the garden of a home in England, has fetched a whopping 553,250 pounds at an auction here. The ancient granite temple step, which till now adorned the residence of Mike and Bronwyn
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A carved granite temple step similar to those found in the ancient city of Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka will be sold in Bonhams Indian and Islamic sale in London on April 23...The magnificent work of art featuring lions, horses, elephants, birds and
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08 editor Inaugurating an exhibition of photographs titled Buddhist Heritage of Sri Lanka: a shared culture with India' at the India International Centre in New Delhi on 9 April, Foreign Secretary of India Ranjan Mathai, quoting from a speech made
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Sinhala Buddha-Sasana custodians not recognizing nuns accuse Cholas [TamilNet, Thursday, 07 March 2013, 00:20 GMT] With the fall of Anuradhapura to the Chola invaders in AD 1017, the Bikkhuni order (the Order of Buddhist Nuns) disappeared and became
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Colombo uses international aid, abetment, for structural genocide in Mullaiththeevu [TamilNet, Thursday, 28 February 2013, 04:02 GMT] The genocidal Sinhala State in Colombo has accelerated the process of creating a Sinhala division at Ma'nal-aa'ru
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