Explore Sri Lanka

Rodney Jonklas Over most of the gluttonous globe, all sorts of chutneys, pickles and sambols, especially the varieties you can keep for long periods, add zest to the bland food. ...

(The Honourable Minister of Tourism) Sri Lanka– the name conjures up images of the exotic East, sun-kissed beaches, emerald seas and a warm, hospitable people. This island for the last...

A. Felician Fernando Boats on the beach (Ranjith Senaweera). The catamaran has a somewhat adventurous and romantic sound about it. Actually, the name is an anglicization of the composite Tamil...

The distinctive idiom of traditional Sri I.ankan culture is dance and music. In their various configurations, dance and music are organically woven into the colourful folk-ways, rites, rituals. formal productive...

Maureen Seneviratne Resthouse from the Dutch Resthuys: the meaning and significance of which needs no elaboration in any language. But in their beginnings, in the century-long peace, however tenuous, that...

Chitra Ranawake The crack of a whip cuts across the stillness of the Kandy Lake. It is followed by the throbbing of drums and the distant wail of wind instruments....

Maureen Seneviratne I can see it to this day, that radiant panorama that wilderness of rich color that incomparable dissolving view of harmonious tints, and lithe half-covered forms, and beautiful...

The sixth successive Dress Designer of the Year contest, which has by now become a regular and keenly awaited event in the haute couture calendar, was held on May 29...

In 1987 Sri Ishwara Sarma was invited to visit and stay in Australia by some of the people he had encountered in the course of his spiritual work. There he...

Cassandra Alexander Galle Road today has a proliferation of brilliant neon signs that, after the sun goes down, somewhat garishly vie with each other for the attention of passersby. Among...