History

How Sir Edwin Arnold and Anagarika Dharmapala teamed up to retrieve the shrine for Buddhists

A grasp of history might have prevented this disastrous war

Sugeeswara Senadhira recalls Taliban’s destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddha statues in March 2001

Hundreds of thousands of Asian women, mostly from China and Korean, were kidnapped and coerced into sexual servitude to Japanese troops

The ethnic conflict has linked Buddhism exclusively with the Sinhalese and Hinduism exclusively with the Tamils

The 13 th.Century temple is built with bricks that are so light that they can float on water

In pre-colonial times, relations alternated between conflict and cooperation says Prof. Amaradasa Liyanagamage.

Milan was the first film in which Yousuf conveyed deep emotions by his facial expressions alone, and the effect was tremendous

Aneeq Mohideen describes how a small group of Jewish detainees fought the Germans to the bitter end in the Warsaw Ghetto

The Keralas were mercenaries in the armies of Sinhalese kings along with other South Indians like Tamils and Kannaatas (from present day Karnataka).