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Felician Fernando A display of ornamental brassware at a street junction at Kollupitiya, Colombo. When driving along a street leading to the elite residential area of Colombo, take a turn...

Degaldoruwa Rajamahavihara - in Gunnepana, a suburb of Kandy Photographs by Gamini Jayasinghe Degaldoruwa - Rajamahavihara A temple in the Kandy district at Gunnepana. The paintings belong to the 18th...

Maureen Seneviratne In the range of creative handicrafts in Sri Lanka, ivory carvings have taken a very important place. Ivory seems to have used lavishly for personal ornaments, for decorative...

Mr John Fleming Mr. John Fleming, Chief Executive Officer of Airlanka, talks with Shalini Wadhwa of EXPWRE SRI IANKA about new strategies, plans and the role of Airlanka in reviving...

Maureen Seneviratne Torch spinners like this lead the way at the Kandy Perahera. Photo: Gamini Jayasinghe  The Kandyan dancer from Sri Lanka is an im­age familiar throughout the world. His...

Kalpana Isaac Historically masks were used in rituals to exorcise villagers' fears and illnesses. Even today, patients who require psychiatric therapy more often than not approach the Kattadiyas who dance...

D F Shopper I had never heard that Colombo had much of a reputation for duty-free shopping; instead, Sri Lanka represented to me an ideal destination for a holiday on pristine...

Maureen Seneviratne A tourist once proudly claimed that he had received a letter from home in Europe merely addressed to him by name at the postal address "Hikkaduwa" Yet Hikkaduwa...

Anne Outwater People have been diving in Sri Lanka since at least 1864, when Eugene De Ransonnet, the Viennese painter and naturalist, sketched the coral banks outside Galle in a...

Hikkaduwa has long been a haven for holiday­ makers irresistably drawn from all over the world to the warmth and beauty of the sunny beaches of Sri Lanka's southwest coast....