I refer to the two articles of Kalyananda Tiranagama, Executive Director, Lawyers for Human Rights and Development, under the titles “Is Sinhala the Official Language of Sri Lanka” and “How Premadasa ...

When I raise this question, one may wonder why I raise this question 64 years after Sinhala was made the Official Language of Sri Lanka by the Official Languages Act, No. 33 of 1956. The people in the ...

Professor J.B. Disanayaka is well known for his innovative creations. His latest book is no exception. The ‘Encyclopaedia of Sinhala Language and Culture’, he himself says is of “an unusual kind”. JB ...

SBS Sinhalese program focuses one of the Sinhala language schools across Australia in the last Thursday of every month. In ...

Unknown to the media and most in Sri Lanka the Sinhala language has won international recognition. More precisely, it is the Sinhala script rather than the language itself that has been named as one ...

When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness -- I am nothing -- Virginia Woolf in The Waves. Supposedly the language spoken by nearly 16 million Sri Lankans, Sinhala ...

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