The recent and sudden resignation of the Director General of the Department of Archaeology of Sri Lanka has now become a major topic of discussion. It was widely discussed in the media and social...
Volume 1(September 2020 – May 2022)By Ama H.Vanniarachchy
A Word from the Author
Essays on Sri Lanka’s Cultural Heritage, Volume 1 (September 2020 – May 2022) is a collection of 40 newspaper articles written by me...
In our previous segment, we discussed how King Manawamma (684 – 718 CE) established law and order in the Sinhala kingdom and crushed rising political conspiracies and chaos. He was also a Sinhala king...
A growing population of Tamil soldiers in the Anuradhapura Kingdom
In our previous episode, we explained how, by this time, it had become a practice that Sinhalese princes and kings would form large Tamil armies...
