Archaeological excavations in Anuradhapura have shed new light on writing in ancient Sri Lanka. Valuable findings have emerged from the excavations in the Anuradhapura citadel site. Thirty two pieces ...

EMD Upali, a familiar name in both the Colombo Bar and the Sinhala stage, is gearing up to unveil his latest theatrical venture, Pavul Kana Minihek, the Sinhala adaptation of Iris Murdoch’s acclaimed ...

BASH is a Unix shell and command language which can run Shell Script files. You do not need to install Ubuntu or any other Linux Distros unless your scripts need the ...

The first Sinhala language feature film “Kadawunu Poronduwa”(Broken Promise) premiered on 21 January 1947 at the Kingsley theatre in Colombo. Four months after that historic event ,on 30 April 1947, a ...

Many Indian media houses stationed journalists in Colombo throughout the Sri Lankan civil war. The Hindu was among the first to post a foreign correspondent there (in 1983). At the height of the war ...

BBC News Sinhala has launched its channel on YouTube. The channel delivers a diverse range of content including interviews, explainers and short videos about issues relevant to Sinhala-speaking ...

Every week, Rajesh PN Rao, a computer scientist, gets emails from people claiming they've cracked an ancient script that has stumped scholars for generations. These self-proclaimed codebreakers - ...

Is there a script for the fight between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson? The internet seems to think so. Netflix is bringing one of the biggest sporting events of 2024 to its platform. The 27-year-old, ...

If you have every used the Command Line, or CMD, interface in Windows, you probably have some idea of the powerful things it can do. Creating your own CMD scripts, you can do even more, but faster. A ...

Nimal Herath, an engineer by profession, has now written a book on ‘epigraphy’, the study of inscriptions. How he moved from engineering to archaeology, particularly to paleography, is a matter of ...