I had always wanted to go to Kandy, for no other reason than that I was in love with the name: so airy, fanciful, and obviously suggestive of sweet things. I first found Kandy on a map of what was ...

Analyses of whole-genome sequence data of urban Sinhalese and two indigenous Adivasi clans in Sri Lanka, which live in geographically separated regions in the country, have shed light on the migratory ...

When three years back, a Sri Lankan envoy sought Indian support on the basis of the claim that the Sinhalese people are descendents of Bengalis and Odias, there was an upsurge of perplexity and ...

In 1956, the majority of Sinhalese people in the country elected to power, a party which promised to make Sinhalese the official language in 24 hrs! They were patriotic and determined and had waited ...

to broadcast Sinhalese language programmes,” Ashokan, managing director, Symphony Advertising Services, told City Times. Katharata Sirasa, the name of the service, will be available every night from ...