A series of bombings on Sunday morning killed almost 300 people at churches and hotels across Sri Lanka, a nation with a troubled history of inter-ethnic and faith-fueled violence. The attacks ...

Sri Lanka’s Tamil Debaters’ Council has made history, clinching its maiden international debating crown through the National ...

Newton Gunasinghe, a pioneering Sri Lankan sociologist and Marxist scholar, made significant contributions to the study of culture and class in Sri Lanka by incorporating the concepts of great and ...

The International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP) developed a detailed reparations claim in collaboration with the Valvettithurai Citizens’ Committee to the Sri Lankan Office for Reparations, seeking ...

It gives me great pleasure to write a few words about the book written by Ranjan Chinthaka Mendis, entitled “An Invisible History of Early Sri Lanka”. I warmly congratulate Chinthaka Mendis, a ...

Environmentalists have responded with alarm to a proposed amnesty permitting the registration of illegally captured elephants in Sri Lanka. Recent reports in Sri Lankan media have outlined the ...

A Sri Lankan grandma has just earned her master's degree from a Canadian university at the age of 87. Just a number: Varatha Shanmuganathan received her political science degree from York University ...

In recent years the History of Sri Lanka has become an important subject, not only because it is in school curriculum, but also because it has been used to shape politics and justify the ...

At least 200 people have been killed in several coordinated bomb attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter. As a Catholic religious studies researcher and professor, I lived in Sri Lanka ...

On Thursday nearly five hundred people, including members and supporters of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP), family members and relatives, and friends gathered at the Borella Cemetery in Colombo ...

March 17, 1996, remains the greatest day in Sri Lankan cricketing history as the then conflict hit nation beat all the odds to lift the Cricket World Cup trophy. On the biggest day of his career, ...