Dr. Daya Hewapathirane Sufism or the Sufi Muslim Ideology Traditionally, Sufism or the Sufi Muslim ideology had been the predominant Islamic spiritual tradition observed throughout Southern Asia, including Sri Lanka. Sufism is   considered to be the mystical, ascetic branch of Islam which emphasizes personal experience with Allah. Sufis can be members of either the Sunni […]

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Dr. Daya Hewapathirane KING WIMALADHARMASURIYA -1:  saved his motherland from the shackles of foreign invasion and his nation from extinction, besides rescuing Buddhism – that forms the foundation of the national culture  of this great nation, from an untimely end.  WIMALADHARMASURIYA – I,   ALIAS KONAPPU BANDARA (1591 CE– 1604 CE) Konappu Bandara was crowned as […]

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Precolonial and Postcolonial Transfers from South Asia to Science and Technology”   Public Lecture by Dr. Susantha Goonatilake   (author among others of Toward a Global Science: Mining Civilizational Knowledge) Sponsored jointly by The Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science and the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka     on Monday 28th July 2014 […]

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By Nalin de Silva Courtesy Island Most of the cultures in the world at present are associated with religions though it is not necessary that a culture should be associated with a religion. Of course, it depends on the definition of religion and one could define religion as a system that includes rituals, and could […]

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Shenali D Waduge Ananthi Sasitharan TNA member of the Northern Provincial Council was in for a surprise when she arrived at the Mullaitivu Magistrates courts on 21st July 2014 for the continuation of the case filed by her. She never expected hundreds of Tamils to brave the scorching heat to arrive demanding to know what […]

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