Domestic violence has no boundaries.! It has been a growing problem in the 21 st century and leading to social chaos of verbal abuse, prostitution and drug addiction, list is ever expanding & seems to have no end. Various non-government and government agencies are working 24x7 to counter this growing phenomenon which could even potentially lead to the extinction of humanity. It appears that most non-government organisations (NGOs) and governments largely focused on the physical aspects of the phenomenon of domestic violence. Trying to study the impacts caused to the family unit and how the women have been trapped in the vicious cycle of domestic violence. This does not mean that only women are the major victims, but men too have become victims, but are rarely being reported in male dominant 21 st -century society. Therefore it's prudent to have different perspectives on the model for domestic violence. Therefore this essay is trying to provide a different perspective on the ...

Surnames have been of great importance to society in traditional Sri Lanka for centuries. This has been especially significant for the people living in the Kandy region of the country which was called ‘ kanda uda rata ’ in the language of Sinhala, meaning the region/territory on the mountains. This was the last region of the country that finally succumb to the invading colonial rule in the year 1815. The ruling class of the traditional society in Sri Lanka has revolved around the aristocratic families similar to mediaeval Europe, Arabia, Russia, India and many around the globe.  Surnames and naming of names/places have been of such significance in the society of the Kandy. British colonial rulers have taken great effort to study and document those family names and interconnection between the aristocratic society in the kingdom of the Kandy, which is reflected by the well-documented and published book “A Gazetteer of the Central Province of Ceylon” by A.C.Lawrie in 1896 who w...

  Sri Lanka carries a rich history of knowledge management in the history with written management of knowledge over 2500 years. Primarily, inscriptions on rocks & inscriptions of ‘Puskola’ ( පුස්කොල) (tempered Palmira leaves) have been used as a method of written management of knowledge. In addition, It verbal tradition has been a popular and appealing method to the general public in which word of mouth has been the medium. ‘Puskola’ was mainly used to inscribe the knowledge of local medicine, Buddhist writings, Astrology & Occult knowledge. Inscribing in the puskola is a living system, still practised remotely but diminishing rapidly. The process of preparation of the leaves to use as a writing surface on the  Puskola is a tedious and time-consuming exercise. It requires a great deal of dedication, patience, skills and knowledge of the herbs.  Inscriptions on rocks (සෙල් ලිපි) The rock inscriptions can still be seen in the rock caves, which demands knowled...

ලොවම ගිගුම් දෙමින් " චීනනැව " පසුගියදා හම්බන්තොට තොටුපොළට ලගාවිය.මින් මාස කිහිපයකට පෙර එලසම මහා හඩක් නගමින් රුසියානු   ගුවන්යානය ක්ද අමුතු ඇටයේ අත් අඩංගුවට පත්විය. හැමදාම  තමන්ගේම රටේ පුරවැසියන්ගේ  ප්‍රශ්න සරුසාර ලෙස වවාගෙනකන, ඒ අතරම මහා ගැලවුම් කාරයෝ සහ අති සුපිරිසිදු සුද්දවන්තයෝ ලෙස පෙනීසිටිනා කපුටෝ පිරිසක් මේ අත් අඩංගුවට ගැනීමට  ක්‍රියාකාරී ලෙස දායකත්වය ලබාදුන් බව රූප පෙට්ටියේ කතාවනු බව මතකය. කෙසේ වුවද අවසානයේ "කජු" පැකට්ටුවක්දී ප්‍රශ්නය නිරාකරණය කරනය කල බවද, පසුව එම රූප පෙට්ටියේම කතා වූ බවද මතකය . හැමදාම  මෙන් දූපතේ කතාව නම් කවදාටත්  අපූරුය. තරම කොතරම් කුඩවුවද ප්‍රශ්න නම් මුලු ලොකයටද වඩා විශාල ය.ඈත අතීතයේදී දුටුගැමුණු රාජ කුමාරයාට මෙන්ම, වර්තමානයේ "වික්කම සිංහයාටද" උතුරින් සොලීන්‍ ය, නැගෙනහිරින් චීනුන්‍ ය, බටහිරින් සුද්දා ය.දකුණු දෙසින් හම්බන්තොට වරාය ය. කිසිදු සැනසීමක සේයාවක් වත් නොමැති සේමය.  නමුත් ලෝකයම සැනසීමට සිදු වී ඇත්තේය. සැබවින්ම දැන් නම් ගිරයට හසුවූ පුවක් ගෙඩියමය.  නැතිනම්, බටහිර සහ උන්ගේ බළල් අත් පමණක්ම  "අන්තර්ජාතිකය...