In Modernizing Composition: Sinhala Song, Poetry, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Sri Lanka (University of California Press, 2017), Garrett Field emphasises the role that radio played in ...

Before introducing two new CDs released by Sri Lanka's leading songstress, Nanda Malini with a selection of her film songs sung over the years, it's opportune to look back and see how Sri Lankan film ...

‘Rituals and Music in the Temple of the Tooth Relic in Kandy, Sri Lanka’, was Donaldson’s doctoral thesis at Monash University for research on which he visited Sri Lanka in 1996. “From my Hotel room ...

Victor Ratnayake’s ‘Thotupala Aine’ and ‘Viduli Dumriye Chanchala Nadaya’ sung by Rupa Indumathi and Lakshman Rodrigo are rare exceptions when it comes to experimentation with song writing. Last week, ...

Right at the outset I need to justify the above subtitle. The readers may be understandably perturbed that the use of the word Christian is an irrelevant identity marker, given the violence that ...