Gamini gave an astounding performance acting as a Tamil in Sunil Ariyaratne’s ‘Sarungale’. He played Nadarajah, the Jaffna Tamil clerk in a story that highlighted both the anti-Tamil communal violence ...

Sri Lanka known earlier as Ceylon has produced many journalists of a high calibre in the past.These excellent scribes writing in Sinhala, Tamil or English newspapers acquired a large readership and ...

Sri Lanka’s premier political party representing the Tamils of the Northern and Eastern provinces is the Ilankai Thamil Arasuk Katchi(ITAK)known in English as the Federal Party(FP). The ITAK is ...

Notorious drug trafficker and criminal gang leader Sanjeewa Kumara Samararathne known as ‘Ganemulla Sanjeewa,’ was shot dead in the No. 5 Magistrate’s Court within the Hulftsdorp Court Complex ...

Sri Lanka known earlier as Ceylon has produced several businessmen and industrialists of great repute over the years. There were however only a few who captured the popular imagination of the people.

The first part of this article published last week briefly outlined the history of Sri Lanka’s national anthem being sung in Tamil. In this second and final part, the focus would be on the regress and ...