This article originally appeared on Groundviews, an award-winning citizen journalism website in Sri Lanka. An edited and shortened ... The identification of certain sites as Sinhala Buddhist sacred ...

JAFFNA/MULLAITIVU: In the Tamil-majority northern province of Sri Lanka, as a road turns uphill towards Old Chemmalai, near the scenic Nayaru Lagoon in Mullaitivu district, there stands a statue ...

By Ifham Nizam Sri Lanka, a land teeming with biodiversity and historical significance, continues to captivate the global ...

While Tamils in the northern province of Sri Lanka struggle ... of “ancient” Buddhist sites, Mahendran Thiruvarangan, an academic from the University of Jaffna and member of the Jaffna ...

More than 2,300 years ago, Theri Sanghamitta, the daughter of Emperor Ashoka, traveled from India to Sri Lanka ... sacred sites. Another milestone marked on Uduwap Poya is the establishment of the ...

JAFFNA/MULLAITIVU: In the Tamil-majority northern province of Sri Lanka, as a road turns uphill towards Old Chemmalai, near the scenic Nayaru Lagoon in Mullaitivu district, there stands a statue of ...

Jaffna, which is predominantly inhabited by Tamil communities, has been central to Sri Lanka’s ethnic tensions ... and its association with Sinhala-Buddhist nationalism. The departure of many ...

A common feature of Jaffna politics is the refusal to assess Sri Lankan history objectively without looking at it through the coloured lenses of either Ponnambalam, or S. J. V. Chelvanayakam. The ...

"Ferry service and Chennai-Jaffna flight connectivity ... the immense potential of tourism through the Buddhist circuit and Ramayana trail of Sri Lanka," said PM Modi.

"Ferry service and Chennai-Jaffna flight connectivity have boosted ... to realize the immense potential of tourism through Sri Lanka's Buddhist circuit and Ramayana trail," he said.