Preethi Vesak, dears! That, by the way, is how we are supposed to greet each other on this festival of lights, this season of enlightenment – not “Happy Vesak!”, or “Blessed Vesak!” But “Preethi Vesak ...

The ‘Sinhala Only’ legislation of 1956 was immediately turned into a bogey by anti-majority propagandists to frighten off progressive political reforms aimed at redressing the historical injustices ...

Goolbai Gunasekera had written in this newspaper three Sundays previously that making Sinhala the national language and compelling schools, hitherto teaching in English, to have only Sinhala and Tamil ...

Buddhist Culture and Sinhala have been made a compulsory subjects for first year students of one of the faculties at the University of Jayawardhanapura regardless of their religious beliefs and medium ...