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Ravana: The Real King of Sri Lanka – By Nadeeka – eLanka King Ravana is remembered by many Sri Lankans not as a villain, but as a wise and powerful monarch who once ruled over a highly advanced civilization. While most of the world knows Ravana from the Indian epic Ramayana, where he is often portrayed as the ten-headed demon king who kidnapped Sita, Sri Lankan legends tell a completely different story—one that reveals a king of extraordinary intelligence, a master of science and technology, and a ruler who left behind a legacy that still echoes through the island’s mountains, forests, and ancient ruins. Ravana is believed to have ruled Sri Lanka over 5,000 years ago, long before recorded history. His kingdom, known as Lankapura, is said to have been a marvel of ancient architecture and engineering. Some believe its location was in or near present-day Sigiriya, while others point ...

Tale of Two Worlds By Oscar Fernando Sri Lanka is a country caught up between its own two worlds-in constant turmoil but so beautiful to the beholder! This writer attempts to opine some views on the events that caused a wall separating the two worlds-an opinion being only a view held as probable and probabilities do not warrant fisticuffs, battles nor bloodshed. This tale is intended especially to politicians of all hues-past present and future-at a time where it appears, our right thinking professional youth are throbbing to play a vital-governing role-to bring back the country to where it was: the tale is of the past and post invasion periods, specifically the post-independence period. We were a noteworthy country long before the invasions-self-sufficient and apparently peaceful, as was the rest of the world until the boom of the industrial revolution in the west-resulting with the good and the bad. ...