Esala Perahera Esala Perahera is colorful and splendid Every year at the time of the full moon from late July to early August, thousands of Buddhists, Muslims and Hindus gather in Kataragama to take part[…]

Yearbook 1998 Sri Lanka. Just over a week before Sri Lanka would celebrate its 50th anniversary as an independent state, the guerrilla Tamil Liberation Tigers, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), conducted its most symbolic[…]