the “Kiri Muhuda”, and the Paththirippuwa that rose in the shape of a tall parasol. According to these verses, the King was a compulsive builder of dams, ponds and tanks, and by 1813 ...

President Ranil Wickremesinghe visited the historic Dalada Maligawa, the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic in Kandy on Thursday (27). During his visit, the President paid homage to the Sacred Tooth ...

A special discussion pertaining to the issues that have arisen concerning the electricity bill sent to the Sri Dalada Maligawa in Kandy during the Esala Perahera season, will reportedly be held today ...

Ranil’s independence celebration of 2023 is somewhat akin to JRJ’s “king’s procession” (Raja Perahara) and the nation-address made from Paththirippuwa in Kandy in 1977. They are very much in line with ...

The new President in his address to the nation from the Paththirippuwa in Kandy demonstrated a great deal of prescience when he said that what Sri Lanka needs is not a king but a genuinely humane ...