The earliest Sri Lankans to enter the United States were classified as “other Asian.” Immigration records show that between 1881 and 1890, a total of 1,910 “other Asians” were admitted to the United States. It is unlikely that many of these were from Sri Lanka. In 1975, immigration records classified Sri Lankans as a separate […]
This month’s edition of “Rendez-Vous with Yasmin and Kumar” now showing on the YouTube, channel of the Embassy of France in Sri Lanka and the Maldives, celebrates the life and world of Sri Lanka’s internationally renowned film-maker Dr. Lester James Peiris. His connection with France has been a “karmic tryst” ever since he took his […]
By Uditha Devapriya This is the third and final in a series of candid vignettes about Tony Ranasinghe. Pauline Kael once observed of Marlon Brando that his characters suggested tragic force. Comparable as he would have been to Brando, Gamini Fonseka never epitomised this kind of force: the closest he ever came to embodying it […]
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