Many Sinhalese believe that due to Thesavalamai law they cannot buy (or lease) property in the North. This seems a misconception on their part. There are only two classes of people who are benefitted ...

Leaving aside the string of falsehoods that were uttered, not one MP chose to even interrupt & defend the Sinhalese against the charge of racism” hurled upon them. In times where misinformation, ...

Hours of play (local time) 10.00 start, First Session 10.00-11.25, Interval 11.25-11.45, Second Session 11.45-13.10 Galle CC and Kalutara TC both finish on a remarkable 30 for 9 in Sri Lanka's ...

Scholar Neil DeVotta in his “Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology: Implications for Politics and Conflict Resolution in Sri Lanka,” explained in 2007, during the brutal end-game of the war, the ...

The majority of Sinhalese in the country is with the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Presidential Candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa, says United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) MP Faiszer Musthapha.

This was the context in which the Low Country Sinhalese capitalist class, largely based in the maritime region in the south-west, had its origins. Kumari Jayawardena in her essay Ethinic consciousness ...