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This meal trend is taking over Sri Lankan social media-by ChriShalle Shalini Source:Dailymirror 2022 has been the year of cutting back. Cutting back on the little joys life has to offer. For many young people, Sri Lanka’s severe economic crisis meant that they had to forego casual meet-ups with friends and cut back on their comfort food deliveries. Why? Everything is double the price! Over the last few months, however, one of Sri Lanka’s traditional ways of packing meals with a banana leaf, better known by its native name “Kesel Kole Bath ‘, has been making regular appearances on social media, with a new twist. Packing a meal in a banana leaf has been an ancient practice followed in the food culture of Sri Lanka. Over the last few months, videos of at least five individuals serving and eating together on banana leaves began to circulate virally on social media ...

Sep 2, 2022 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , , ,
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” බක් මහ ගී කලාව ට එක් වූ “නාරං මල් ගොල්ලේ.. සූරිය සිරි මංගල්ලේ… නාරං මල් ගොල්ලේ..සූරිය සිරි මංගල්ලේ… Melodies of the Summer | Narang Mal Golle… Sooriya Siri Mangalle..” මෙය නව සමයක උදාවකි. එය හිරු බැබළෙන සමයයි; උණුසුමෙන්; සියලු ජීවීන් ජීවයෙන් අවදි ව සූර්යයා සමඟ වැඩෙන විට, වෙන කවරදාටත් වඩා දීප්තිමත් වනු ඇත. එමෙන්ම මෙම සිංහල දෙමළ අලුත් අවුරුදු සශ්‍රීකත්වයේ සමයේ දී ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ  ජාත්‍යන්තර පාසල් ජාලයක් ලෙස ලයිසියම් ජාත්‍යන්තර පාසල් එකමුතුව විසින් ” නාරං මල් ගොල්ලේ…සූරිය සිරි මංගල්ලේ ” ගීතය ශ්‍රී ලාංකේය ගීත කලාවට එක් කරන්නේ මෙරට බක්මහ ගීත කලාව සුපෝෂණය කිරීමේ අරමුණිනි. මෙම අලුත් අවුරුදු විශේෂ ගීතයේ පද මාලාවේ විවිධ අන්තර් සංස්කෘතික අංග අඩංගු වන අතර එය එහි තේමාවට සමගාමීව තවත් අර්ථ එක් කර එහි කලාත්මක වැදගත්කම ද වැඩි කරයි. සිංහලයන් පමණක් නො ව ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ දෙමළ සහ ආදිවාසී ප්‍රජාව ද ඇතුළත් වේ. මේ නව අවුරුදු ගීතයට අප රට මුල් බැසගත්, උඩරට, පහතරට හා සබරගමු ගී නාද රටා මෙන් ම දේශීය හා බටහිර බෙර හා ඉන්දීය කංජිරාවේ හඬත් යහමින් මුසු වී නව රසක් මවන්නට ඔවුනට හැකි වී ඇත. මල් පිපී තුරු ඵල දරන, කෙත් සරුසාර වන වසන්තය; සිංහල දෙමළ සංස්කෘතික අනන්‍යතා හා චිරාත්කාලීන එකමුතුව ද අරුත් ගැන්වූ දුමින්ද අලහේන්ද්‍ර මහතාගේ ගීත රචනයත්, විශාරද දිලුම් නිරංජ මහතාගේ ඒ මනරම් සංගීත තනුව ද එක ව, කුරුණෑගල, පානදුර සහ නුගේගොඩ ලයිසියම් ජාත්‍යන්තර පාසල්වල පෙරදිග සංගීත අංශයේ ආචාර්යවරු හා පෙරදිග සංගීත අංශයේ සියලුම සාමාජිකයන්ගේ අපූරු සුසංයෝගයෙන් නිෂ්පාදනය වූවක් ලෙස මෙම ගීතය සැලකිය හැකිය. It is the dawn of a new season. It is the season of the sun; of warmth; when all living things come to life and grow with the sun, brighter than ever.   And in this auspicious season of Sinhala-Tamil New Year of 2022, the prestigious Schools network in Sri Lanka, Lyceum International Schools revealed its beautiful product, as a tribute to all the New Years we passed and for many more to come.   Lyceum International Schools released the New ...

Apr 13, 2022 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , , ,
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The Hon. Scott Morrison Prime Minister – Message – Sinhala and Tamil New Year PRIME MINISTER   MESSAGE FROM THE PRIME MINISTER SINHALA AND TAMIL NEW YEAR 2022 I’m pleased to send my best wishes to everyone celebrating Sinhala and Tamil New Year. As you come together for this tremendous family and community event, you share in a festival of language and culture. Steeped in ancient tradition, Sinhala and Tamil New Year inspires goodwill, thankfulness, and renewal. As we farewell another tough year, this is a message that speaks to all Australians. Here in Australia — a country of acceptance and inclusion — we practise our beliefs and customs free from persecution and discrimination. We are free to celebrate faith and community in ways that bring joy to our hearts. We are an open, free and accepting nation — the most successful multicultural nation on earth. In the words of Queensland’s ...

Apr 13, 2022 Posted by In Articles Tagged , ,
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Sinhala and Tamil New Year – From an Australian born Sri Lankan youth – by Darshana Munasinghe Source:Dæhæna – Radio 4EB Sri Lankan Group – Monthly e-Newsletter – April 2022 As the Sinhala and Tamil New year is approaching soon in April, I begin to reminisce on my childhood memories and what the day means to me as an Australian born Sri Lankan. During the 2006 Sinhala and Tamil New Year celebrations in Canberra, I was just an 8 year old kid really just thinking about cars and cricket.  The day started with my parents setting the table and making delicious milk rice. There is really nothing better in the morning than having savoury milk rice and sambol. Our family friends in our neighbourhood would come with fresh crispy kokis and delicious kavum and we would kneel and venerate the elders in the room. The generosity of sharing food and ...

Apr 1, 2022 Posted by In Articles Tagged ,
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A MEMMORABLE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION – by Mr Nimal Sedera: Brisbane   The Sinhala and Tamil New Year celebration organized by the Sri Lanka Society of Queensland on 24th April at the Jindalee Bowls Club was a tremendous success. With the tradition of the Society, it was an event of less talk and more fun packed rituals, traditional games and events followed by a sumptuous buffet lunch.   Tickets for Maximum COVID number allowed within the main hall was one hundred and twenty-five and every seat was occupied at the commencement of the meeting.  Every participant was welcomed with a pack containing a professionally made  “Konda Kevum”. The President of the Association Mrs Namal Wijeratne welcomed all guests and the programme was launched with the ritual of boiling of milk for prosperity. Mrs Chalani Gunasekera , wife of  Late Victor Gunasekera who was a founder member of the Society lit the ...

May 14, 2021 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , ,
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How to make Avurudu healthier this year? Source:Island The Sinhala and Tamil New Year is a celebration of harvest, sweet meats, happiness and plentiful blessings for the upcoming year. A time to spend with family and cherish old memories, of course while maintaining health guidelines, and share comfort from the knowledge ‘that we got past the challenges from the year that passed.’ It is also a time to indulge in scrumptious traditional sweets; that are either shop bought or made at home; the fun of sharing plates of food with your neighbours and family member that may include kokis, kevum, aluwa, asmi, bananas and creamy delicious kiribath! ...

Apr 12, 2021 Posted by In Articles Tagged ,
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The Perfect Educational Solution for Present “Covid 19 Outbreak” from Lyceum Schools – Sri Lanka. It gives great honor to communicate that we, Lyceum have launched the first phase of E-Learning at the Lyceum Group along with the instigation of curfew, on the 16th of March 2020. For the first time in the history of Lyceum, the Ordinary level and Advanced Level examinations semester were also successfully conducted online. During the 1st phase E-learning at Lyceum, the teachers create virtual classrooms where they can upload lessons, projects or assignments, while other virtual learning options include interactive quizzes and games. E-Learning at Lyceum is also inclusive of audio, video and other document forms of resources. Students can also replay the previous lessons since they are recorded ones, whenever required. This has been a great advantage that allows the students to learn and relearn at their own pace. ...

May 2, 2020 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , , , , Comments 0
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