On 8 January 2026, I delivered a talk at an event at the University of Colombo marking the retirement of my longtime friend and former Professor of Sinhala, Ananda Tissa Kumara and his appointment as ...

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In a significant move to accelerate technological innovation in Sri Lanka, Dialog Axiata PLC, Sri Lanka’s #1 connectivity provider, and the Dialog-University of Moratuwa (UoM) Research Lab, has ...

The Australian Federal Government’s Assistant Minister for Citizenship, Customs and Multicultural Affairs, and Assistant Minister for International Education, Julian Hill MP, who recently visited Sri ...

The Equal Rights Movement handed a letter to the President citing concerns that official disaster notices and government statements are only issued in the Sinhala language. Speaking to the media after ...

During the recent cyclone Ditwah disaster, we saw in real time how language discrimination against the Tamil speaking population was taking place. This was not only on social media but even official ...

· The primodial Sinhalese identity is rooted in the Sinhalese ethnic group which has a long history of existence for over 2500 years, unique and distinct language (Sinhala), and a strong connection to ...

C#, Microsoft’s object-oriented, cross-platform, open source language for the .NET platform, has become the fastest-growing language on Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity. C# may ...

A study 1 has found that today’s Sri Lankan Adivasis, and Sinhalese — the country’s largest ethnic group — share close genetic ties with each other, and with Dravidian-speaking groups in south India, ...