However, they quickly realized it was a trap; Kandyan guerillas isolated the garrison, cut off food supplies, and forced a humiliating, disease-ridden retreat. [ 1, 2, 3] During the First Kandyan War, ...
Devendra Moolachari, the celebrated Architect of the last three Kandyan Kings and designer of the Pathirippuwa, the Octagonal Pavilion in Kandy’s Sri Dalada Maligawa, Maha Maduwa (Audience Hall) ...
BIMSTEC is the failed replacement for SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) that excludes Pakistan and Maldives that were part of SAARC. It’s an Indian attempt to exclude Pakistan, ...
Devendra Moolachari the celebrated Architect of the last three Kandyan Kings and designer of the Pathirippuwa, the Octagonal Pavilion in Kandy’s Sri Dalada Maligawa, Maha Maduwa (Audience Hall) and ...
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For the restoration works, the King employed traditional Sinhala artists who were scattered throughout the country. These artists belonged to the artist caste called “Hiththaru”. This caste is also ...
When money goes missing from a wardrobe at home, the person in charge knows about it, so when money goes missing from a bank, don’t the bank officers assigned to it know, Colombo Chief Magistrate ...
If the International Cricket Council (ICC) grants official recognition to Sri Lankan lawyer Senaka Weeraratna for inventing the Player-Referral System (the foundation of the Decision Review System or ...
For over a century, Germany was the industrial heartbeat of Europe. The country that built the cars the world wanted to drive, the factories that produced the chemicals, the steel, the machinery that ...
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Asoka Weeraratna (1918–1999) was a passionate Sri Lankan Buddhist philanthropist who established the German Dharmaduta Society (GDS) (originally the Lanka Dhammaduta Society) in Colombo on September ...
The pinnacle of the GDS’s intervention, as praised by Dr. Schumann, was the salvation of Das Buddhistische Haus (The Buddhist House) in Berlin-Frohnau. Founded originally in 1924 by Dr. Paul Dahlke, ...
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