History

Valentine's Day provided relief to the hard-pressed people of Colombo

Valentine’s Day, which is also known as Saint Valentine’s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated every year on...

Despite being a functioning township, Galle Fort is unspoiled

Parakala Prabhakar speaks on Subhas Bose, Gandhi and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

Busy as a beehive when the Portuguese, Dutch and the British were ruling the roost in Ceylon, Galle port became...

The island nation is yet to evolve a consistent foreign policy

Barring scholars, very few in Sri Lanka would know, or readily acknowledge, that in the past Buddhism had flourished among...

Governor William Gregory's term from 1872 to 1877 was the “golden age” of Ceylon coffee

According to historian Srinath Raghavan, Mao ZeDong was purging the Chinese army after a revolt by Marshal Lin Biao.

Getting the political and military support of the USSR ahead of the 1971 Bangladesh war, was a challenging task.