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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 ...
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 ...
Susanthika Jayasinghe. Deshabandu Kameradin Susanthika Jayasinghe [2] ( Sinhala: සුසන්තිකා ජයසිංහ; Tamil: சுசந்திகா ஜயசிங்ஹ, born December 17, 1975) is a Sri Lankan retired sprinter, who specialised in the 100 and 200 metres. [3] [4] She won the Olympic silver medal for the 200m ...
Website. Official website. Mahinda Rajapaksa ( Sinhala: මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ; Tamil: மஹிந்த ராஜபக்ஷ; born Percy Mahendra Rajapaksa; 18 November 1945) is a Sri Lankan politician. He served as the President of Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2015; the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 2004 to 2005, 2018, and ...
Only Sri Lankan to scored centuries in both innings in his 50th Test. One-Day Internationals. Most runs as an opener for Sri Lanka in a calendar year – 1207 runs in 2015. Twenty20 Internationals. Highest run scorer for Sri Lanka – 1,889 runs in 80 matches. At the time he retired he was the second-leading run scorer in T20I matches.
Miss Sri Lanka 1980. Bernadine Rose Senanayake, JP, UM (née Ramanayake; born 5 January 1958 [1]) , better known as Rosy Senanayake, is a Sri Lankan politician, [2] beauty pageant titleholder and activist currently serving as Presidential Advisor on Local Government affairs. She was the Mayor of Colombo from 2018 to 2023, [3] [4] and former ...
Upul Tharanga. Warushavithana Upul Tharanga (born 2 February 1985), commonly known as Upul Tharanga ( Sinhala: උපුල් තරංග) is a former professional Sri Lankan cricketer. A former limited over captain, [1] Tharanga played for all formats of the game. He is a left-handed opening batsman and occasional wicket-keeper.