Heritage: Ambassadors of peace (Part VI)
According to A Concise History of Ceylon by Prof. Senerath Paranavitana and C.W. Nicholas, based on archaeological and literary evidence, the creators of a...
Heritage: Ambassadors of peace (Part V)
Damedas or Damelas in local chronicles
The first Damilas to be mentioned in local chronicles are sailors who were engaged in Horse trading. These traders...
Heritage: Ambassadors of peace (Part IV)
In ancient Sri Lanka, according to inscriptions and chronicles, there had been an ancient ethnicity known as Dameda or Damela, who were merchants, sailors,...
Heritage: Ambassadors of peace (Part III)
Continuing from where we stopped at last week, let’s take a detailed look at the Tamil Householder’s Terrace Inscription.
Inscription of a Tamil householder and...
Heritage: Ambassadors of peace (Part II)
“I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be...
Heritage: Ambassadors of peace (Part I)
“The seed of cultural harmony lies not in the culture you are born in but in the recognition of the sweetness of other cultures.”
—Abhijit...
A MANUAL OF THE VANNI DISTRICTS, CEYLON
BY J. P. LEWIS, EsQ. Of the Ceylon Civil Servise.
COLOMBOH. O. COTTLE, ACTING GOVT PRINTER, CEYLON.1895
PREFACE
A FEW words are necessary by way of preface...
Nationality via archaeology
Although Sri Lanka gained independence from British rule in 1948, there was no independence mentality and free thinking among the people of Sri Lanka....
13th Amendment is not a home-grown solution
While politicians of both communities add fuel to this ethnic issue, it is the innocent people of both races who pay the price for it.
ස්වාධීනත්වය සහ ජාතිකත්වය කරා ගමන් මගේ පිය සටහන්
(1948 -1977 දක්වා ලංකාවේ දේශපාලන, ආර්ථික, ආගමික, සංස්කෘතික හා සාමාජික පරිවර්තනය)
ප්රථම මුද්රණය - 2022ISBN: 978-624-5401-01-7උපදේශනය - කීර්ති ජයසූරියසංස්කරණය - ආචාර්ය පොල්ගස්වත්තේ පරමානන්ද හිමි, චන්දිම...