'Diplomacy' refers to the art and process of conducting business between nations. Portugal was the first European country to have diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Kandy. The Kingdom of Kandy was the most affected ...

The depiction of depth and space using the practice of Perspective is a novelty apparent in the temple paintings of the Southern Maritime region of Sri Lanka in the 18th and 19th centuries, which cannot be seen in the ...

A century ago, cinema emerged as a synthetic medium with powerful expressive and representational potential. This ushered in the era of cinematic construction and re-creation of new dimensions of life and reality as a means ...

The new Kelani Vihara shrine construction is a temple project that reflects the socio-political and cultural change in Sri Lanka in the early twentieth century. This was implemented during the colonial era from 1927 to ...

In the 6th, 7th, and 8th centuries BC, the beginnings of Western classical literature were marked by the Greek epic poems Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. It is a scholarly opinion that the material seeds for the creation of ...

Architecture is an artistic and practical discipline. Its inception, as well as its development, has been nurtured in Indian attitudes. The beginning and the development of Indian architecture have been fueled by Indian ...

The Sinhalese village culture, which is rooted in a set of beliefs, has been built on the basis of Buddhism for a long time. The Sinhala cultural history builds a universal concept and a metaphysical philosophy of the ...

Postcolonial studies as well as sociolinguists have long asserted the significance of language in postcolonial societies and the unquestionable power that language has in constructing reality. Both disciplines explore ...

Universities and university students have long been a fertile source of slang, which can be defined as an informal variety of language comprising words and expressions used by a particular social group. Research in campus ...

This paper reports on a study that investigates the views of teachers of English in the Northern Province on the unique phonological features of Jaffna English, a variety of Sri Lankan English (SLE) that has its own ...