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By Dr.PG Punchihewa Folk museums lately are receiving more and more attention They deal with and . Such museums cover local life in rural communities. A folk museum typically displays historical objects that were used as part of the people’s everyday lives. Examples of such objects include clothes and tools. Many folk museums are also […]
OLD PERADENIYA By Ernest Macintyre INTRODUCTION The Mahaweli River, 335 long, the longest river in Lanka, has its beginning in a remote village of Nuwara-Eliya District in the central hills, and ends going into the sea at the Bay of Bengal on the east coast at Trincomalee. As it passes Kandy, the main town of […]
By Uditha Devapriya \Although the Colombo Film Society would become Asia’s oldest such group, Colombo lay a world or two away from the rest of Sri Lanka. The urban middle-classes encountered the best of regional and Western cinema before their counterparts in Bombay and Calcutta did, but they remained cut off from a vast multitude […]
The 32nd Dr. C. W. W. Kannangara Memorial Lecture titled ‘For a country with a future’: Educational reforms Sri Lanka demands today’ delivered by Prof. Athula Sumathipala, Director, Institute for Research and Development, Sri Lanka and Chairman, National Institute of Fundemental Studies, Hanthana on Oct 13 at the National Institute of Education, Maharagama Continued From […]
Ridi Vihare: The Flowering of Kandyan Art Dr. SinhaRaja Tammita-Delgoda Stamford Lake Publications, 2006, pp. 210, Rs 3,750 Reviewed by Uditha Devapriya This is a fascinating study of one of the more fascinating Buddhist temples of Sri Lanka, authored by one of our foremost historians. The Ridi Vihare, or the ‘Silver Temple’, traces its history […]