History

It was Jawaharlal Nehru’s passionate advocacy of a “scientific temper” and his pioneering role in shaping independent India’s national policy...

By Sugeswara Senadhira/Sunday Observer Colombo, August 27: When the Ambassador of the Netherlands Bonnie Horbach called on Prime Minister Dinesh...

Last month, ahead of the visit of Sri Lanka’s President, Ranil Wickremesinghe, to New Delhi, the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister...

“My present is foreign and the past is home, albeit a lost home in a lost city in the mists...

Even as it abhors war, Buddhism prescribes principles of ethical conflict

Many landmark events have marked July in recent Sri Lankan history

The three-day symposium on Gandhara civilization aimed at promoting Buddhist and faith tourism

Pakistan holds Gandhara Symposium 2023 with Sri Lankan and international participation

Turnour, a British official, was the first to translate the Mahawamsa into English

The BJP government’s commemorating Indian soldiers who died for the British reflects the regime’s ideological need to acknowledge the Indians’...