Sinhala is the ethnic group native to Sri Lanka, forming the mainstream or the dominant indigenous community of the island for more than 2500 years. In fact, Sri Lanka is the only national sovereign ...

During his recent visit to the United States, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the leader of the National People’s Power, addressed an interesting question from a Sri Lankan resident. The person highlighted ...

During his recent visit to the United States, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the leader of the National People’s Power, addressed an interesting question from a Sri Lankan resident. The person highlighted ...

Anu Thoradeniya from Sydney joins SBS Sinhala ‘My Song’ monthly musical program to talk about his first song 'Nithambe' and the lyrist Don Sherman from Melbourne joins to talk about his lyrics of this ...

“On this earth there are pestilences and there are victims – and as far as possible one must refuse to be on the side of the pestilence.” – Camus (The Plague) “Patriotism,” wrote Ambrose Bierce in The ...

ECONOMYNEXT – The historicity of Tamil Buddhism in Sri Lanka has not been a subject that has captured the public imagination to the extent that it perhaps deserves, at least in the south, though ...

Divisive rhetoric is a strategy that works precisely because the basic hegemony of Sinhala Buddhist nationalism has yet to be seriously challenged I believe it is necessary to distinguish a politics ...

It is clear that because of the very nature of Sri Lanka’s modern incorporation into the capitalist imperialist world system, Sinhala Buddhist nationalism cannot challenge the country’s intrinsic ...

listen to the SBS Sinhala Radio interview on the second song of the trilogy - "Anuraga Pushpaya" with the lyrist, Dr. Mahendra Samarawickrama, from Sydney. SBS Sinhala ‘My song’ monthly musical ...

“Our challenge is to devise some arrangement which enables us to coexist if not in amity then at least in forbearance.” Jawaharlal Nehru (quoted in Andre Malraux’s Anti-Memoir). The Buddhist ...

This short piece is based on an anecdote of a striking memory that I have of a particular classroom at the Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya. Every time I walk past this particular classroom, ...

In the article titled “1962 Coup:Takeover of Govt Through Operation Holdfast” that was published in the “Daily Mirror”of January 29th 2022, I had written about some persons who were to be arrested and ...