“You have to go when you have to go” is a common saying, but this is impossible in many areas of Sri Lanka as there is a dearth of public toilets and sanitary facilities. Women are particularly ...

Speaking to reporters today following a massive protest last night in Batticaloa town where protesters blocked the main road demanding to remove the body parts of suicide bomber, District Secretary R.

CHAPTER 7 Gertrude’s brother-in-law and sister strongly opposed the marriage because I was only a clerk. But she was ...

The HALO Trust and the Sri Lankan Army use a 15 cm excavation drill for this purpose. In cases where mines may be buried deeper due to soil erosion or floods, such as on slopes like Nagerkovil, ...

Mark P. Whitaker, Caste, Space, and Retail Religiosity in Tamil Toronto, CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, Vol. 6, No. 1, VARIETIES OF CASTE CONSCIOUSNESS with A Symposium on Caste in Sri ...

Batticaloa town and district have a substantial Muslim population. It was in a mosque in Kattankudy in Batticaloa district on August 3, 1990, that the LTTE massacred 143 Muslims while they were bent ...

Photo courtesy of Tamil Guardian Some truths are not uncovered by force. They rise slowly, persistently, from the ground ...

The town embarked on the redesign in May 2022 after then-Town Historian Denis Brennan discovered that the previous logo included a historical inaccuracy, an image of tepees intended to honor the ...