Colombo’s Independence Square has more to it than being a recreational hub
Read moreA place for relaxation now, the five hectare grassy sea-side ‘maidan’ at the center of Colombo, has a checkered past
Read moreIt was an unexpected series of developments in the world that made India change its modest objectives and for the capital city of Dhaka
Read moreGovernor William Gregory's term from 1872 to 1877 was the “golden age” of Ceylon coffee
Read moreAmeena Hussein's book on the 14 th.Century Moroccan traveler is a rich tapestry of his observations; insights into his personality; his likes and dislikes; and his comfort zones in an alien, multi-cultural land.
Read moreWhen the British ruled Sri Lanka, peasant agriculture, with paddy as the main crop, was systematically weakened to yield place to plantation-based commercial agriculture monopolized by them.
Read moreBritish propaganda maliciously painted the South Indian Muslim ruler as “anti-Hindu” and today, Hindutwa forces are using it to obliterate the ‘Tiger of Mysore’ from the pantheon of Indian freedom fighters
Read moreIt's part of the archaeology department's scheme to acquire and restore historic buildings in the walled city
Read moreBritish planters, labor contractors, missionaries and successive Lankan governments kept the plantation workers uneducated for the sake of having a low paid and docile labor force.
Read moreHis British captors denied the poet-emperor pen, ink and paper and buried him in an unmarked grave in Yangon, Myanmar
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