Dr Upul Wijayawardhana How would the Buddha have looked like in real life?” This question was posed by Prof. Asanga Thilakaratna, the Chief Editor of the Encyclopaedia of Buddhism, during one of the ...

Bill read out in Parliament on Friday makes clear that these elections, last held in 2018, due in 2022 and postponed thereafter on various pretexts must be held in the coming weeks. But the question ...

The assertions of ‘first comer’ are the hallmark of sectarian nationalism and contrary to the values of Indian Constitution ...

Ratnottama Sengupta, one of the editors of this collection, has written about forms of violence against women that appear ...

The world would indeed be a dull place if there were only one or two languages. Only a few of them have more than a million ...

The new channel will host a diverse range of content about issues relevant to Sinhala-speaking audiences The BBC News Sinhala channel on YouTube delivers a diverse range of content including ...

The BBC News Sinhala channel on YouTube delivers a diverse range of content including interviews, explainers and short videos about issues relevant to Sinhala-speaking audiences, from politics and ...

In 1997, for example, Vivian Gornick wrote that love was no longer the primary narrative conflict of contemporary literature.

Seattle satirist Maria Semple’s breakthrough novel is a flurry of contemporary, epistolary wit. Passive aggressive e-mail ...

After initially mishearing a question about her love of reading, the world No. 2 promised to share a fuller list of favorites on social media.

“I absolutely love reading, I love the idea of sharing how books make people feel…books are really important to me and if I can share that in some way, then I feel like I’m on the right ...

Sushila Gautam, 77, checks her smartwatch, a gift from her son living in the United States, to see if she should leave for ...