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Exchanging Vows Sri Lankan Style Maureen Seneviratne The mosaic which is Sri Lankan society is nowhere more evident than when a wedding takes place. Among all ethnic groups in the...

Fred Holmes Beep-beep, beep-beep...my implacable alarm clock gently but firmly penetrates the fog that envelopes my brain at 5.30am until I can ignore it no longer. Do I really have...

Arjuna Weerasuriya The time was quarter past five in the evening. Fathers, mothers, children, grandparents, locals and foreigners alike formed a motley crowd that filled the middle-sized arena. The tinkling...

Christine Jayasinghe Star-crossed lovers in Sri Lanka are less likely to be plagued by a Montague and Capulet style family vendetta than by actually having their stars at cross purposes....

Maureen Seneviratne Discovered by the then Archaeological Commissioner, H. C. P. Bell, in 1907 and 1908, the Polonnaruwa Bronzes of Sri Lanka are among the most magnificent of their kind...

It was not far back that Colombo was described by many as the Garden City of the East. Even in the late 1960s many of the city's streets were lined...

Preserving Unique Traditions Ishnala Samarasinghe It is a place where artists and craftsmen can practise their skills and talents undisturbed; it is a place where young enthusiasts can learn artistry...

Lucien Rajakarunanayake Determining the origins of the irrigation works of the ancient cities of Sri Lanka provides a constant challenge both to the imagination and modern expertise. Here in the...

Rohan Maldeniya In an undertaking which would amount to more than 1.1 billion Sri Lankan rupees when completed, the UNESCO - Sri Lanka Cultural Triangle Project, the largest UNESCO-assisted archaeological...

Vilma Wimaladasa One of the charms of the island is its infinite variety, wrote Leonard Woolf more than eighty-odd years ago. The variety has not changed. In fact, it has...