South Indian workers were brought to Sri Lanka in the colonial era by the British planters to deploy them in hard labour in the newly cultivated coffee, tea and later rubber estates mostly in the central hills. Although ...

This paper examines how Etel Adnan’s novel Sitt Marie Rose challenges the biopolitical implications of belonging to the nation via the circumstances of natality. Giorgio Agamben argues that the Declaration of the Rights ...

Brecht's style of presentation, the themes he had chosen, the contents of his plays and the anti-fascist politics embedded in them have been the subject of intensive analyses at Brecht conferences world-wide. However, the ...

The present study aims at examining the influence of the compositions of Antonio Vivaldi, one of the renowned musicians of the Baroque period, in order to develop positive thinking in undergraduates. Music therapy is widely ...

The Internet was introduced to the Sri Lankan information and communication system in 1990. However the Sri Lankan Internet user percentage has lingered at a mere 18.3% (World Bank Report, 2013). Thus it is intriguing to ...

The aim of this paper is twofold. Firstly, this study probes into the efficacy and utility of the voice-training for a theatre actor, and secondly, it attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of the existing voice-training ...

In a period of Athens’ history when outsiders, xenia, mattered greatly to its success, the idea of strangers in a polis was often the subject matter of Greek tragedy. The theme of xenos, the outsider, was dealt with by ...

The late 19thand 20th centuries marked a period when Vietnamese Buddhism recovered from the terrible oppression under Ming Dynasty, French colonialism, and the Diem regime. Ming rulers confiscated most Buddhist texts in ...

Sri Lankan Africans or Sri Lankans of African descent (also known derogatorily as Kaffirs or Kapiri) are a very small ethnic group in Sri Lanka who are descendants of African workers and soldiers brought to the island by ...

This is an introductory study on Buddhist stories of both Korea and Sri Lanka. A comparative analysis of a Korean Buddhist story selected from a medieval historic text with a Sri Lankan story from an important Sinhala ...