The Viceroy Express: A Journey to Remember
Vilma Wimaladasa One of the charms of the island is its infinite variety, wrote Leonard Woolf more than eighty-odd years ...
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Bronzes from Polonnaruwa
Maureen Seneviratne Discovered by the then Archaeological Commissioner, H. C. P. Bell, in 1907 and 1908, the "Polonnaruwa Bronzes" of ...
The City of Gems
Lucien Rajakarunanayake The island produces more beautiful and valuable rubies than are found in any other part of the world ...
Sri Lankan Jewellery Through the Years
Sarasi Wijeratne Walk down any of the more populous streets of Colombo, or any other town in Sri Lanka, and ...
Kandy: Past and Present in the Last Kingdom
Lucien Rajakarunayake If the road to Kandy is full of promise, arrival there is promise come true. After the commercial ...
Kandy’s Temple of the Tooth
M B Dissanayake The Dalada Maligawa, or the Temple of the Tooth, is the very heart of Kandy, Sri Lanka's ...
The Kandyan Regalia
Maureen Seneviratne 0n 13th June 1820 one of the most famous auction sales ever to be held in London took ...
Springtime Revival and Revelry: Avurudu
Florence Ratwatte We prepare for this springtime revelry rather early in the year. Or rather the koel, popularly accepted in ...
Pageantry and Colour in the Festivals of Sri Lanka
A. Felician Fernando The festivals of Sri Lanka, most of them springing from a deeply religious background, are a blend ...
Colombo’s Navam Perahera
Sarasi In February, Colombo comes alive to the throbbing of drums and the mystic rhythms of the Orient. Yes, it ...