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Mahāvaṃsa (Sinhala: මහාවංශ (Mahāvansha), Pali: මහාවංස (Mahāvaṃsa)) is the meticulously kept historical chronicle of Sri Lanka until the period of Mahasena of Anuradhapura. It was written in the style of an epic poem written in the Pali language. [ 1] It relates the history of Sri Lanka from its legendary ...
Starting from the early 1950s, Sri Lankan politics was mostly dominated by two political parties and their respective coalitions : the centre-left social democratic Sri Lanka Freedom Party. the centre-right liberal conservative United National Party. Recently, however, the influence of the two parties has diminished significantly.
In 2019, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, former wartime defence chief and brother of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa was elected as the new President of Sri Lanka, as the candidate for the SLPP, a newly-formed Sinhalese-Buddhist nationalist party. [73] In August 2020 parliamentary elections, the party, led by the Rajapaksa brothers, won a landslide victory.
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The Sinhala script (Sinhala: සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව, romanized: Siṁhala Akṣara Mālāva), also known as Sinhalese script, is a writing system used by the Sinhalese people and most Sri Lankans in Sri Lanka and elsewhere to write the Sinhala language as well as the liturgical languages Pali and Sanskrit. [3]
[1] [2] The Guiding company was then named as 'Rosa Kekulu' meaning, 'Rose Buds'. In 1918, Sri Lankan Girl Guide Association joined hands with the London Association. The first 'Anual General Meeting' was held in 1919. In 1921 Ranger companies were opened in Kandy and Colombo. The first Guide company in Colombo was opened at Methodist College ...
Sinhala idioms (Sinhala: රූඩි, rūḍi) and colloquial expressions that are widely used to communicate figuratively, as with any other developed language. This page also contains a list of old and popular Sinhala proverbs , which are known as prastā piruḷu ( ප්රස්තා පිරුළු ) in Sinhala.
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s English bulldog is getting her own bobblehead. The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum in Milwaukee announced plans Friday for a bobblehead doll for the ...