With the dawn of independence and the cultural renaissance that followed, the Ceylon Tamil Women’s Union launched the Kalalaya School of Dance and Music, on September 1, 1948. This “temple of art”, ...

JAFFNA/MULLAITIVU: In the Tamil-majority northern province of Sri Lanka, as a road turns uphill ... Now, even observing festivals at our temple has become difficult,” he says.

Both had escaped Sri Lanka’s wantonly vicious civil ... They forcibly conscripted thousands of Tamil youths. Their bombings of temples, trains, buses, and airplanes amounted to unambiguous ...

A strong backlash from politicians and intellectuals in Jaffna, over the renaming the India-built Jaffna Cultural Centre ... spiralled in Tamil media in Sri Lanka and social media platforms ...