Did you know that, even today, some communities in Sri Lanka lack proper access to clean drinking water? In episode one of our brand new series Strong Foundations, Sade Greenwood takes us into a remote village in Anuradhapura where a life-saving project by the Tokyo Cement Group is putting an end to a water crisis that has caused decades of ...
Did you know that, even today, some communities in Sri Lanka lack proper access to clean drinking water? In episode one of our brand new series Strong Foundations, Sade Greenwood takes us into a remote village in Anuradhapura where a life-saving project by the Tokyo Cement Group is putting an end to a water crisis that has caused decades of ...
17 year-old Dewmini Parindya, a technology student, runs her father’s garage in Thambuttegama. “If your determination is strong enough, you can get anything done with whatever small resources you have,” she says. “Girls can do anything.” Her goal is to one day establish her own garage. The post “The Garage Is My Life.” | How A 17-Year-Old Runs A Garage first appeared on Roar Media.
17 year-old Dewmini Parindya, a technology student, runs her father’s garage in Thambuttegama. “If your determination is strong enough, you can get anything done with whatever small resources you have,” she says. “Girls can do anything.” Her goal is to one day establish her own garage. The post “The Garage Is My Life.” | How A 17-Year-Old Runs A Garage appeared first on Roar Media.
“Our main focus is on bringing out the technical aspect by breaking some of the traditional barriers that have kept this art a secret from the world.” Thanks to a colonial-era ban lifted only in 2019, #angampora — a traditional Sri Lankan martial art — is struggling to gain popularity with younger generations. Outside of the island, the practice is ...
Sri Lanka faced questioning at the 51st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on 12 September on the root causes of its economic crisis, human rights abuses under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, and the ongoing question of post-war reconciliation, among other concerns. In a statement, Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Sabry reconfirmed Sri Lanka’s commitment to ...
“This is a moment in history where we are witnessing the rise of extreme nationalisms in many parts of the world, whereas the reality is that what we identify as our own is often a composite of flows that perhaps even predate written history,” says Colomboscope 2021 curator Anushka Rajendran, explaining the relevance of this year’s festival concept: Language is Migrant.
Two things stood out to me in the locale known as ‘Paradise Place'. The first is the massive kovil, tucked away in what could easily be mistaken for a part of Jaffna but is in fact in the middle of Kotahena and Panchikawatte.
A 130-km protrusion of land on Sri Lanka’s north-western coast has received a fair amount of local and international press in the past few months. Mannar Island, connected to the mainland by a causeway, has been identified as a rich source of the mineral ilmenite, which the Perth-based Australian company, Titanium Sands Ltd., hopes to mine.
Colombo Fort has, for over a century, been the centre of Sri Lanka’s economic activity; and being strategically located to facilitate international travel, it is not surprising that colonisers, be it the Portuguese, Dutch, or the British, chose to consolidate their control over the city.
Natural gas deposits found off Sri Lanka's north-western coast remained untouched for almost 10 years while alarm grew over increasing signs of global warming, from hotter weather to more frequent and intense cyclones.
Last month, Minister of Public Security Rear Admiral (Rtd.) Sarath Weerasekera announced he would publicly name perpetrators of child abuse, rape and assault in an attempt to deter other potential offenders.
Much has been said online and offline about Deepa Mehta’s adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy, particularly its casting choices and the boycott around the movie.
At the time the novel coronavirus was first detected in Wuhan, China, Sri Lanka was only beginning to recover from the economic and emotional wounds of the Easter Sunday attacks.
I wake up, hit snooze on my alarm, listen to the boys play cricket outside, surf through TV channels, and buy a doughnut from the choon pan man every evening.
