History

Colombo’s Independence Square has more to it than being a recreational hub

A place for relaxation now, the five hectare grassy sea-side ‘maidan’ at the center of Colombo, has a checkered past

It was an unexpected series of developments in the world that made India change its modest objectives and for the capital city of Dhaka

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

Ameena 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.

When 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.

British 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

It's part of the archaeology department's scheme to acquire and restore historic buildings in the walled city

British 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.

His British captors denied the poet-emperor pen, ink and paper and buried him in an unmarked grave in Yangon, Myanmar