When I raise this question, one may wonder why I raise this question 64 years after Sinhala was made the Official Language of Sri Lanka by the Official Languages Act, No. 33 of 1956. The people in the ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake yesterday alleged that intelligence reports have confirmed funds from State accounts were ...

I write to complement Mr. Sangadasa Akurugoda’s essay “Why get rid of our linguistic heritage, and move back to English?” in ‘The Island’ of 8th February 2021. This is nothing to get excited about. It ...

Sinhala script had derived from Brahmi script that had given rise to almost all North and South Indian Scripts. In the older tradition, Brahmi has been classified into two subgroups namely Northern ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this article, I juxtapose the ways the "father of modern Sinhala drama" John De Silva, and the Sinhah language reformer, Munidasa ...

The March 2018 Sinhala-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka underline growing communal schisms in the island state. This article examines the rise of Sinhala ultra-nationalism and the violent groups primarily ...

Hithawathi, one of the key initiatives of FOUNDATION.LK, continues to make a notable impact in enhancing cyber-safety in Sri ...