Tag: Spiritual

Returning on a visit to the land of his birth after a decade of practising surgery in "the sterile, impersonal ...

Details of the grand parade By Kalpana Isaac. Photos: Suresh de Silva For two weeks at the end of July ...

Deloraine Brohier rises early to participate in an ancient Hindu ritual. Suresh de Silva The entrance to Kataragama. Pilgrims wending ...

Iris Manampery Masked dancers join with gay abandon. On the way down from Colombo to Galle is the village of ...

Muditha Dias 'Whateverwe givewe haveand whateverwe havewe lose' Whatever we give we have and whatever we have we lose is ...

Chitra Ranawake The crack of a whip cuts across the stillness of the Kandy Lake. It is followed by the ...

Wijeratne Muhandiram By an interesting coincidence the month of Esala in Sri Lanka's traditional lunar Buddhist calendar is a period ...

Maureen Seneviratne Discovered by the then Archaeological Commissioner, H. C. P. Bell, in 1907 and 1908, the "Polonnaruwa Bronzes" of ...

M B Dissanayake The Dalada Maligawa, or the Temple of the Tooth, is the very heart of Kandy, Sri Lanka's ...

A. Felician Fernando The festivals of Sri Lanka, most of them springing from a deeply religious background, are a blend ...