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Maureen Seneviratne A beautiful bronze of Tara in seated position Discovered by the then Archaeological Commissioner, H.C.P. Bell in 1907 ...

Theja Weeratne The wayside vendors or pavement hawkers are a common yet popular sight in Sri Lanka selling their wares ...

Chitra Ranawake If you zoomed in suddenly upon Sigiriya the Lion Rock (Sinha-Giriya) rising starkly into the sky you would imagine ...

Fred R Malvenna Watching Birds : The winged ones can be a most interesting and time absorbing past time for ...

On the 13th June 1820 one of the most famous auction sales ever to be held in London took place ...

Maureen Seneviratne The Kandy Road, which every visitor to Sri Lanka will drive along at least twice - that is, ...

Lasanda Kurukulasuriya In any handicraft shop today, the counter that is most likely to attract the customer's eye as he ...

Photographs: Gamini Jayasinghe Embekke is the name of a village in Sri Lanka that is virtually synonymous with wood carving. ...

Shirani Rajapakse A cool relaxed walk in the daytime is certainly not all that tempting, specially with the ever present ...

Wijeratne Muhandiram It was the time when top hat and tails were in fashion in Ceylon. When there were no ...