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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 ...
Culturally, Sri Lanka possesses strong links to both India and Southeast Asia. [1] For over 2,500 years, India and Sri Lanka have nurtured a legacy of historical, cultural, religious, spiritual, and linguistic connections. The country has a rich artistic tradition, with distinct creative forms that encompass music, dance, and the visual arts.
Kandyan jewellery is handmade and was designed specifically for the royal families. It carries symbols of wealth, prosperity, grandeur, strength, well-being, solidarity, virtue, passion and valour. It is worn by women and men of royal or noble births. The jewellery is highly sought after today with important pieces such as the bridal-set having ...
Wanniarachchige Malini Senehelatha Fonseka, popularly known as Malini Fonseka ( Sinhala :මාලිනී ෆොන්සේකා) (born 30 April 1947, in Kelaniya, Sri Lanka) is a Sri Lankan actress, theatre artist and a director. Often considered the "Queen of Sri Lankan Cinema", [1] [2] Fonseka first became widely known when she won the ...
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 ...
There are 111 lizards known from Sri Lanka, with 17 newly discovered in 2006, and two more in 2016 and 2017. [11] [12] One of species was discovered in 2019 from Ensalwatta, Matara. [13] In 2019, seven more endemic day geckos have been discovered by Suranjan Karunaratne and Mendis Wickramasinghe. [14] [15] In December 2019, three more endemic ...
The caste systems of Sri Lanka were historically not tied to the religious establishment but rather a tool to service the ruling elite - a model more reminiscent of feudalism in Europe. At least three major, parallel caste systems exist in Sri Lankan society: Sinhalese, Sri Lankan Tamil and Indian Tamils. [1]
One-year-old R. Premadasa with his parents in 1925. R. Premadasa in 1930. Ranasinghe Premadasa was born on 23 June 1924 at Dias Place, Colombo 11, to the family of Richard Ranasinghe (Ranasinghe Mudalali) of Kosgoda and Battuwita Jayasinghe Arachchige Ensina Hamine of Batuwita, Horana. Premadasa was the oldest of five children, three sisters ...
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 ...
Sri Lanka, [a] historically known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. It shares a maritime border with the Maldives in the southwest ...