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The Poruwa ceremony appears to have existed in Sri Lanka before the introduction of Buddhism in the 3rd century BC. The Poruwa ceremony was a valid custom as a registered marriage until the British introduced the registration of marriages by Law in 1870. Today's Poruwa ceremony has been influenced by both upcountry and low country customs of ...
Professor Maithree Wickremesinghe ( Sinhala: මෛත්රී වික්රමසිංහ; born 11 August 1964) is the current First Lady of Sri Lanka as the wife of President Ranil Wickremesinghe. She is a Sri Lankan academic, writer, and professor of English at the University of Kelaniya. [1] She specializes in gender and women's ...
Kaushal Silva. Jayan Kaushal Silva (born 27 May 1986), or Kaushal Silva, is a professional Sri Lankan Test cricketer. Educated on Sri Sumangala College Panadura. He plays for the Sinhalese Sports Club and the Sri Lankan national team. He made his first class debut in the 2001/02 season. He is a right-handed wicket-keeper batsman .
Conganige Madhavee Wathsala Anthony (born 6 August 1988; Sinhala: මාධවී වත්සලා ඇන්තනී ), popularly as Madhavee Wathsala, is an actress in Sri Lankan cinema. [1] Started as a child artist through the popular television musical show Hapan Padura, Madhavee is also excelled her career as a singer, dancer, model and ...
Pooja's father, H. R. Umashankar, is an Indian Kannada Brahmin from Sringeri, in the Chikmagalur district of Karnataka while mother, Sandhya, is a Sri Lankan Sinhalese. [1] Her father worked with Hindustan Unilever in Valparai as a manager. After she did her pre-schooling in Sri Lanka, she came to India and went to Poornapragnya in Aldur ...
Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike [alt 1] (8 January 1899 – 26 September 1959), also known as "The Silver Bell of Asia" (ආසියාවේ රිදී සීනුව), was a Ceylonese statesman who served as the fourth Prime Minister of the Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka ), serving from 1956 until his assassination. The founder ...
Sri Lanka declared two days of national mourning, and state radio stations abandoned their regular programming to play funeral laments. Bandaranaike's remains lay in state in the parliament, and her funeral subsequently took place at Horagolla , where she was interred in the mausoleum, Horagolla Bandaranaike Samadhi , originally built for her ...
Radhika Coomaraswamy. Deshamanya Radhika Coomaraswamy (born 17 September 1953) [1] is a Sri Lankan lawyer, diplomat and human rights advocate who served as an Under-Secretary General and Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict from 2006 to 2012. Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed her to the position in April 2006. [2]