PRESIDENT - MR. N.G.WICKREMERATNE HONORARY PRESIDENT - PROF. NIMAL DE SILVA HONORARY PRESIDENT - DR. K. KANAG-ISVARAN PC CO-PRESIDENT - MR. U.L. KADURUGAMUWA Senior VICE PRESIDENT - ARCHT. ISMETH RAHEEM…

Source: The Island Online In 851 AD, an Arab merchant, called Soleyman, wrote an account of his travels to the island of Serendib. Impressionistic but insightful, it records the earliest…

Liberal Arts Perspectives

Art by Usvatte-aratchi 19/01/2022

University of Bologna: ‘Medieval universities had five faculties: arts, philosophy, law, medicine and theology. Of these, the faculty of arts had the largest number of students and theology dominatedthem all…

Charting a new history, for a new future

Heritage by Uditha Devapriya 01/01/2022

Source: The Island For Sinhala nationalists, I daresay the history of Sri Lanka remains the history of the Sinhala people. This begs two questions: one, who are these Sinhala people,…

Museums through Prof. Thapar’s eyes

Heritage by Uditha Devapriya 26/11/2021

Source: The Island On Thursday, 27 January, Prof. Romila Thapar will deliver the Dr Roland Silva Memorial Lecture to the National Trust of Sri Lanka. Prof. Thapar will be speaking…

Source: The Island The largest drain on Sri Lanka’s foreign exchange earnings is in purchasing fossil fuels for power and transport, and in feeding the 22 million people who depend…

Presentation by Dr Roland Silva on Mantai   Great Emporium - Manthai Part 1 [embed]https://youtu.be/wNUCjfdj0BA[/embed] Great Emporium - Manthai Part 2 [embed]https://youtu.be/w_lY_AdRKj8[/embed] Great Emporium - Manthai Par 3 [embed]https://youtu.be/7zrXjc-ySuA[/embed] Great…

Gateway to Mutual Heritage of Jaffna with special reference to Grid City

Lecture by Archt. Jayatissa Herath, Archt. Deepal Wijethilaka & Ms. Suganya Vinasithamby 14/07/2011

Grid City by Archt. Jayatissa Herath, Archt. Deepal Wijethilaka & Ms. Suganya Vinasithamby   Heritage of Jaffna - Grid City Part 1 [embed]https://youtu.be/RGQZ6cWCKi4[/embed] Heritage of Jaffna - Grid City Part…