It was made to contain an additional day by Julius Caesar. The Sinhala equivalent of this month is Duruthu. Seeds planted after the monsoon begin to grow in this month and hence the farmers named it ...

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 ...

Saturday, April 13 marked the Sinhala and Tamil New Year, one of Sri Lanka’s main cultural holidays. Commonly known as “Avurudu” in Sinhala and as “Puthandu” or “Puththandu” in Tamil, the celebration ...

SBS Sinhalese program reviewed a collection of Sinhala poetry 'Marilyn Monroe you and me' written by a Melbournian young writer Nirasha Gunasekara. As usual, the writer and the book critic Mr ...