Tamil Tiger leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran's body Identified

Commander of Sri Lanka Army General Sarath Fonseka has confirmed that the body of Tamil Tiger rebel V.Prabhakaran, psychopathic leader of world's most barbaric terrorist outfit Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has been found short while ago (May 19).

According to the defence sources, the LTTE leader who has ordered thousands of Tamil youth to give up their lives for him has tried to save his life until the last moment. The terror chief's body was found by the 53 Division troops led by Major General Kamal Goonarathne, the sources further said.

LTTE's intelligence wing and suicide squad leader Pottu Amman alias Shankugalingam Shivshankar, Sea Tiger leader Susai, Charles Anthony, B. Nadesan, S. Pulithevan, Ramesh, Kapil Amman, Ilango, Rathnam Master and Sutharman are verified killed and their bodies have been identified.

But today(May 19) a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) official told a pro-Tamil website that the Tiger chief was still alive.

President Mahinda Rajapaksha declared an end to its 26-year civil war.

source http://www.defence.lk

We Salute You

THEY ARE OUR HEROES. WE SHOULD WORSHIP YOU ALL OUR BRAVE HEARTED HEROES OF NAVY,ARMY, AIR FORCE, POLICE, DEFENCE MINISTER GOTABHAYA RAJAPAKSHA and PRESIDENT MAHINDA RAJAPAKSHA . WE SALUTE YOU...

Kuveni is back

It is a well-known story Kuveni, the queen of Yakkhas of ancient Sri Lanka became the consort of Prince Vijaya, had two children - a son named Jivahata and the daughter named Disala.



Veteran dramatist Henry Jayasena's award winning play "Kuveni" was staged on May6,2009 at Elphinstone Theatre, Colombo, Sri Lanka. The new production directed by Samudra Jeewani Karunananda and this is a joint effort by the University of Aesthetic Studies.



In the new production cast includes Dulanjali Sankalya, Rajitha Hewathanthrige,Prasannajith Abeysuriya, Nimal Jayasinghe, Warnatunga Senanayake, Dilini Nadeeka, Thilina Prabath, Vishaka Jayaweera,Rasika Pushpasiri, Nishantha Karunasena, gayantha Sanjeewa, Suneth Shanthapriya, Niluka Rajamanthri, Nilakshi Dharani, Nivoni Dayangi, Kumari Dahanayake and students of the University of Aesthetic Studies.

Independence Day of Sri Lanka

“Sri Lanka Matha- Apa Sri Lanka”
Independence from the Kingdom of Great Britainin 1948. For more than a century Sri Lanka was a British crown colony and achieved its independence to officially become the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.

The National Flag of Sri Lanka symbolizes the country's culture and heritage and embodies the spirit of nationality of its people. It also represents the four virtues of kindness, friendliness, happiness and equanimity. Each element on the National Flag has a distinctive symbolic significance.

Please hoist the national flag to pay tribute to the armed forces that played a major role in the country's freedom struggle.

Abayagiriya Sri Lanka

Abayagiri was built by King Vatttagamini in 88 B.C legend says that the King who lost his throne to the south Indians had spent the 14 years in the jungles. While he was fleeing he was jeered by a Jain hermit and on his return to power he destroyed the Jain monastery and around the Jotiya shrine he built a Buddhist monastery. the dagaba itself was the work of king Gajabahu and it reached a height of 370feet and although smaller than the Jetawana Dagaba was the 2 nd largest thupa in the world. In earlier days it was said that the dagaba was built over a foot print of the Buddhe according to Fa hien who visited Sri Lanka in the early 5 th Century A.D.

Over the impression to the North of the Royal City a great Pagoda was built 400 feet in height, decorated with gold and silver and all precious substances combined.

At the southern gateway to the dagaba, the two attendants of the god of wealth, Padmanidhi and Samkanidhi are now enshrined.(source http://www.anandaloka.org)

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Ruwanweli Seya Sri Lanka

This Dagoba, constructed in the 2nd century B.C. by King Dutugamunu, Standing 55m (180ft) tall, it was originally even taller is without a doubt the greatest of the of the dagobas at Anuradhapura. The original stupa was modeled in the shape of a pure "water bubble". On the south-west side of the compound there is a small dagoba that has this shape. This may have been used as a model for the great stupa. The larger-than-life statue of the dignified man, respectfully watching the dagoba is considered to be Dutugmunu himself. On the west side of the compound, Basawakkulama tank dates back to the 4th century B.C. and is probably the oldest tank in Sri Lanka. The Thuparama Dagoba, north of the Ruwanweli Seya is considered to be the oldest dagoba in Sri Lanka. It is popularly believed that the collar bone of Lord Buddha is enshrined within this dagoba. Ruwanweli Seya means gem sand. This dagaba or thupa is a dome or relic chamber which is build over sacred relics of the Buddha. The construction of this dagaba was prophesied by Mahinda himself. When King Tissa erected a tall stone pillar for the future building King Dutugemunu decided to build this great thupa on this site. He had consulted several master builders and chose the best out of the submitted tenders. The building was started on the full moon day of May 144B.C. The foundation of Ruwanweli Seya was made of butter clay imported from India ; which was used as cement. Then bricks, rough cement, gum and mountain, crystal were lard with a net work of iron. The foundation was finally plated in copper and then silver the saddert part told by the chronicle is that the King fell sick with a sickness that was to be mortal before the work was completed. Dutugemunu sent for his younger brother Suddha Tissa to complete the work before he died. Because of his brothers weakness Saddha Tissa had a covering made of white cloth by seamstress and therewith was the dome covered. There after he commanded painters to make on it a Buddhist railing and he had the upper portion made of bamboo reeds and he had this thupa painted cunningly with lacquer and imitation gold lying on a palanquin the King was brought to see it and when he beheld the splendid Maha Thupa he became glad at heart that his wish was fulfilled before his death. Later the Thupa was completed by Saddatissa.( source http://www.anandaloka.org/DharmaNews4.htm)

Elgine ,Talawakele, Sri Lanka

Elgine Falls was located on the Elgin Estate which is 18km from the city of Nuwara Eliya. Take the Lindula Keldeniya road from Talawakele. It is then a 2km trek along a footpath through the jungle, to the fall. Alternatively, take the train from Nuwara Eliya to Ambewella station. Follow the track from the third bridge at Ambewella station for a tortuous 3km walk to the fall.Railway between Nanu Oya and Ambewela offers a panoramic view of the 75 feet high ElginFalls. A convenient place to stay is the Talawakele rest-house, 2km away.

Machan - Sinhala Movie

Machan is a great Sinhala movie by Uberto Pasolini .Now its screening in Sri Lanka. Machan, unlike recent movie like Aba does not ride on the popular war mania. It retells the embarrassing true story of the entire Sri Lanka’s urban poverty. This is a perfect movie you have to watch but has a minor faults. Machan released with the music of Jayasri where six of their songs have been used.

Director Uberto Pasolini entered the film industry in the international marketing and distribution departments of 20th Century Fox before joining David Puttnam's Enigma Films in the early 1980s. His first work for Puttnam was serving as a location scout on such films as Roland Joffe's "The Killing Fields" (1984), "The Frog Prince" (1985) and Joffe's "The Mission" (1986).

Watch Machan Trailer

SL soldier

He is the one who committed his present for the sake of your future.....This is what the brave, selfless soldiers has to go through to save our motherland for our children and to live with dignity

Sri Lanka Day in Japan

Sri Lankan Day in Tokyo, Japan organized by the Sri Lankans in Japan with Sri Lankan Airlines annually. It helped Sri Lankans to introduce themselves to the large crowd present. Thousands of people flocked to the annual Sri Lanka Day to experience a colorful festival full of Sri Lankan culture and food.

There were over 50 booths providing unlimited access to everyone to enjoy Sri Lankan products, food, books, records, items of cultural value and Srti Lankan Live music was provided. The lively and rhythmic performances of the entertainers showing their traditional Sri Lankan dances and musical performances was a rare treat for the public.

Challenges of Social Networking in Sri Lanka

First watch this web 2.0 video --> web 2.0 video

This paper described the challenges of Social Networking(SN) in Sri Lanka. SN is a web-based community of people who share interests and activities in the new version of the World Wide Web, Web2.0. These websites often feature user-friendly interface allow users to do more than just retrieve information. Social networking has revolutionized the way we communicate and share information with one another in today's society. Various social networking websites are being used by millions of people everyday on a regular basis and it now seems that social networking is a part of everyday life. Youtube, Blogs, WiKi, Hi5 and Facebook being the most widely used social-networking sites in Sri Lanka and others are Myspace, Flickr, Friendster, Bebo,LinkedIn, ZOHO Twitter and Orkut.

Several of the issues around the use of social networking sites are important from a computer literacy standpoint, attitudes to this form of communication and political & economical backwards. One challenge is getting users to join new social networks when there are few other members. Universities, Schools, and Companies are concerned about the time wasted in managing social network profiles and less bandwidth of Internet connection in Sri Lanka, they have banned SN sites.

Almost four in 10 internet users in Sri Lanka who are members of social networking sites would change the personal information they have put online, according to research. The research also showed that almost half of internet users aged 14 to 35 who were members of social networking sites and 61% of all internet users were members of social networking sites such as Facebook, Hi5, WiKi and Blogs.

A preliminary measure of this research is that no-limitation of SN sites is needed. The bandwidth of the system is not enough for the amount of requests of using the Internet, a kind of Internet usage is needed. The broadband Internet facilities in Sri Lanka are sufficiently developing. The Universities in Sri Lanka currently have over 10Mbps Internet connectivity and about 60% high schools in Sri Lanka have the Internet facility. People’s engagement with SN, understand people’s use of sites and exploring the more technical aspects of SN sites is needed. We must give students the chance to process learning and as a result better understand the content and educating the community about SN.

Watch this web 2.0 video --> web 2.0 video

Real Time Unicode Converter - UCSC, Sri Lanka

This is the great tool from University of Colombo School of Computing which will be a great asset, in the process of using Sinhala/Tamil Unicode.

This converter is available at http://www.ucsc.cmb.ac.lk/ltrl/services/feconverter/
or   http://www.ucsc.cmb.ac.lk/ltrl/services/feconverter/t1.html

Sinhla keybord --> http://www.ucsc.cmb.ac.lk/ltrl/services/keyboard/

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Another Converter..

You can use http://unicode.malindaprasad.com/ as a Real time Converter.....

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Horton Plains Sri Lanka

Horton Plains is Sri Lanka’s only montane national parks, and the only one in which visitors are permitted to tour on foot. The second & third highest mountains of the country namely Kirigalpotta & Thotupola respectively are found within the borders of the park.

The panoramic scenic beauty of the hill country could be witnessed within the park. The famous "World's End" and "Bakers Falls" are major attractions within the Park.

Leopard, Sri lankan Sambar Deer & wild boar are the most common large mammals in Horton Plains. Endemic Bear Monkey, Rusty- Spotted and Fishing cats, Otter, Black napped hare and Giant Squirrel are among other mammals. Many species of endemic & threatened rats & shrews are also found in the park.

Aberdeen Waterfall Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is blessed with innumerable waterfalls. Aberdeen waterfall is found below the Castlereigh Reservoir on the grounds of the former Aberdeen Estate.

This waterfall, which attain the impressive height of 322 feet Horsetail type gorgeous waterfall in Sri Lanka. This is near Ginigathhena town & 2km walk from the village. The sweetest thing is we guided by 2 Dogs.

When you travel along the Colombo-Hatton highway, turn at Ginigathhena junction and drive along the road up to village & then 2km foot walk to see Aberdeen Fall.

Visitors to the Hatton get the opportunity of viewing it. More photos

Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage Sri lanka

Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage(PEO)

PEO, a place we really enjoyed and never forget. PEO is situated in the Sabaragamuwa province of Sri Lanka, which is about 87km away from Colombo. Pinnawala is about 3 km from Rambukkana junction on Colombo-Kandy road.

Elephants are so fascinating. There are elephants with babies, two pregnant elephants, a humongous Bull. These are all Asian elephants. The orphanage starts at 8:30am daily for the visitors. At about 10am this bunch of elephants starts walking towards Ma-Oya where they refresh with their daily bathing. Ma-Oya provides the water for drinking and bathing for these elephants. The elephant bathing at Ma-Oya provides a picturesque scene every morning and evening. Most of the visitors enjoy this scene every day while 84 elephants have their bath in this picturesque river according to their own rhythm.

There are loads of tourists here, rightfully so. The official tourist shop sells paper items made from Elephant Dung - one of the more unusual souvenirs we've seen in our travels.

Sri Lanka University Games

9th Sri Lanka University Games 2007
2nd Nov 2007 to 11th Nov 2007, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka More Pictures

More than 5,000 participants from 13 universities will take part in the 9th University Games Festival, starting 2nd November at University of Kelaniya.Around 28 events under 19 different categories of sports and the events will be held at 10 different places, including the University of Kelaniya, Sugathadasa Stadium, Royal College and the sports grounds of the National Youth Centre.

The logo of the SLUG is in the shape of the letter “U”. It was selected from a competition. The letter “U” was selected, because the Kelani River flows in the shape of the letter “U” when it passes Kelaniya. And the letter “U” symbolizes the whole university system. It is green, to represent the greenish lawns of the grounds and the 13 balls represent the 13 universities who take part in the SLUG.

Oriole is the mascot of this year’s sports festival. It was in the Olympic Games in 1968, in Mexico that a pet was used as a mascot and it was used to control anti-Olympic ideas stirred up by student revolts and to spread good will among people.

It is for the first time that a mascot is being used in a SLUG. Oriole was chosen as the mascot because it is familiar to all Sri Lankans and also because of the close affinity it has with the area of Kelaniya in the Selalihini Sandeshaya.

Oriole is an eye catching bird because of its shining body and golden neck and legs. It was selected as the mascot of the year because the oriole is the ideal pet which represents the ethics and principles of the university games.

Kukuleganga & Makeliya Ella

KKG Holiday Resort is a very pleasant and recently constructed complex with nicely built one, two and three bedroomed cabins, along with amenities such as Club House, Swimming Pool, Play Area,Tennis Court, Squash Court Gymnasium walking trails etc. It is considered a highly desirable weekend retreat site patronized by locals as well as foreigners.


Makeliya Water Fall and Natural Pool is a very interesting place. It's just 15 kms away from the Resort.