Village Vignettes
Maureen Seneviratne I can see it to this day, that radiant panorama that wilderness of rich color that incomparable dissolving ...
Tag: Tradition
Esala: Season of Festivals
Wijeratne Muhandiram By an interesting coincidence the month of Esala in Sri Lanka's traditional lunar Buddhist calendar is a period ...
Gramodaya Folk Art Centre
Preserving Unique Traditions Ishnala Samarasinghe It is a place where artists and craftsmen can practise their skills and talents undisturbed; ...
Stepping Back Through Time
Lucien Rajakarunanayake Determining the origins of the irrigation works of the ancient cities of Sri Lanka provides a constant challenge ...
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 ...
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 ...