Bevis Briefly: Life of Bevis BawaText by Richard Simon (May 1991) Photography by Dominic Sansoni Web Design by Muditha Abhayagunawardhana BEVIS BAWA IS AN OLD MAN NOW trapped in his wheelchair, slowly ...

Whether it was their love for God or the lure of gold that drove this virile and adventurous race to venture forth and conquer new lands we will perhaps never know. Nevertheless, the impress the Dutch ...

Introduction From ancient times other cultures have been in contact with Sri Lanka to obtain the spices that grow there. The best cinnamon, cloves and other spices are indigenous to Sri Lanka. People ...

The development and distribution of the Ancient Hydraulic Civilization of Sri Lanka is reflected in several maps where the spatial distribution of ancient irrigation structures, the distribution of ...

TISSA MADAWELA INTERVIEW by Thilak S. Fernando Tissa Madawela, a prominent icon in the Sri Lankan community in London as the man behind the video camera and newly appointed Additional Correspondent to ...

The British authorities who were not unaware of the martial prowess of the Malays, imported over 400 Madurese soldiers and about 228 Javanese soldiers along with their families from 1813 " 1816. This ...

Modelling the CGR This is not easy as there is no commercial support in any scale for locomotives and rolling stock. The closest one could get is to model the M2 (Canadian General Motors type G12) by ...

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) is a pro-Sinhalese group whose campaign of violence in Sri Lanka during the 1980s was itself violently suppressed in 1989-90 by a combination of government and ...

This year marks the 500th anniversary of Vasco da Gama's (1469-1524) voyage to India, which is rated as one of the greatest achievements of mankind. It is only comparable to Neil Armstrong's journey ...

Manjula Nishan Weeratunge, a Civil Engineer working in the UK for Mouchel Parkman (Consultants), took his Spanish wife Inma Garcia on holiday to his roots in Sri Lanka and landed on the Sri Lankan ...

OUTSPOKEN SRI LANKAN FILM DIRECTOR PRASANNA VITHANAGE INTERVIEWED IN LONDON by Thilak S. Fernando TF. How long have you been in the film industry as a Director? Would you like to give yourself a brief ...

A nutritional survey of Jaffna's children carried out in 1993 by Dr. Sivarajah, a time when conditions were much better, showed that 31.4% of children studied were stunted, an indication of chronic ...