The Sinhala Aluth Avurudda or the Sinhalese New Year is celebrated in the month of Bak according to the traditional lunar calendar of the Sinhalese people. The name ‘Bak’ comes from the Sanskrit word ...

The BBC News Sinhala channel on YouTube delivers a diverse range of content including interviews, explainers and short videos about issues relevant to Sinhala-speaking audiences, from politics and ...

This page is no longer being updated. It was last updated on 4 October 2024 Media outlets are divided along ethnic lines Sri Lanka's media divide along language and ethnic lines. Separate media ...

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For version 1.0, we collected news articles from ten news media sites in Sri Lanka. The following table has the details.

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

Just days after Google updated GBoard to support Sinhala voice typing, the folks at Bhasha also unveiled their own version with Helakuru Sinhala voice typing. Powered by Google Voice recognition, the ...

Raise your right hand (or your left if you are left-handed), with the palm facing forward and the fingers spread out. Now form an O with your thumb and your middle finger (keeping the other fingers ...

On June 9, 2020, Sri Lankans occupied the streets outside the US Embassy in Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, holding signs condemning the racism, ...

So, after cleaning up a very dusty cupboard full of books from my childhood, I thought of compiling a list of some of the best Sinhala Young Adult Novels we absolutely loved back then. This was a ...

The golden era of tele-art in Sri Lanka would be the 90s decade; there's no denying that. Inspired by the cinematography at the time, the teledramas that came out during this decennary managed to ...

The Official Language Act no 33 of 1956 said that the Sinhala language ‘shall be the one official language of Ceylon.’ The Act was to come into effect on 1st January 1964. Sinhala had not been used as ...