As Radio Ceylon turns 100, trace how war, music, and commercial radio shaped Asia’s most beloved broadcaster. A story of ...

Radio Ceylon mostly managed to sidestep the treacherous political fault lines in the subcontinent and win listeners across ...

Long before playlists and charts, a radio signal from across the sea brought India to a standstill each week. Binaca Geetmala ...

In around 1954, Radio Ceylon, in its Sinhala broadcast, serialised Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. I was a nine-year-old at the time. The reading of a translation of Dostoyevsky’s classic, partly ...

Radio Ceylon, once a cultural powerhouse, captivated Indian listeners by defying a 1950s AIR ban on film songs. Its popular Hindi service and iconic shows like 'Binaca Geet Mala' forced AIR to compete ...

PO Box 574, Colombo' the SLBC's unique address was set up due to the sheer volume of the fan mail and several hundreds of ...

The Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC), the pioneer of electronic media in the country, is celebrating its centenary today, 16 December 2025.Sri Lanka travel ...

Arumugam Manikavalli, awakened by ferocious rain and rumbling earth, fled her home for the safety of a nearby temple on the tea estate where she works.

Online Tamil panchangam in Tamil and English for any place and any date between 1900 and 2050. This panchangam gives accurate information about the 5 attributes of the day, viz., nakshatram, tithi, ...

Dr. Anslem de Silva debunks sensational colonial-era narratives after comprehensive review For more than a century, sensational headlines in foreign newspapers have claimed that British sport hunters ...

Keynote Address Delivered at the International Research Conference of the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, on 12 December 2025. (Continued from yesterday) V. Usage Down the Ages Empirical ...

Exploring the biggest questions of our time with the help of the world's greatest thinkers. Host Manoush Zomorodi inspires us to learn more about the world, our communities, and most importantly, ...