Tag: Tradition

Christine Jayasinge. Photographs: Suresh de Silva. Who was the British soldier (circa 1815) whose braided and frogged felt coat, tails, ...

The distinctive idiom of traditional Sri I.ankan culture is dance and music. In their various configurations, dance and music are ...

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

Maureen Seneviratne I can see it to this day, that radiant panorama that wilderness of rich color that incomparable dissolving ...

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

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

Lucien Rajakarunanayake Determining the origins of the irrigation works of the ancient cities of Sri Lanka provides a constant challenge ...

Vilma Wimaladasa One of the charms of the island is its infinite variety, wrote Leonard Woolf more than eighty-odd years ...

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

Lucien Rajakarunanayake The island produces more beautiful and valuable rubies than are found in any other part of the world ...