A small island encircled by oceans, Sri Lanka is a well-kept secret. The Ceylon Press' Complete Audio Books aim to make its complicated story more accessible.
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From elephants to sapphires, tea to cricket, Island Stories: The Sri Lanka Podcast explores a remote and secret Eden to discover the stories behind the things that make Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan.
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In under a 100 pint-sized chapters, The Ceylon Press History of Sri Lanka, tellsthe story of an island renowned for a history many times larger and more byzantine than that of far bigger nations. From prehistory to the present day, each short chapter makes a little clearer the intricate sagas of its rulers, people, and progression.
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You can learn about Sri Lanka that is useful for business promotions and also for your personal visits to the island nation in Asia
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I'm Malan from Sri Lanka. I want to share with you how is it like to live on this beautiful tropical island. 🌴💖
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Welcome to ReadMe Sri Lanka, where amazing things happen. ReadMe is your source for everything that happens in the Sri Lankan IT industry. We bring you the latest news, insights and unparalleled features into the Sri Lankan techscape.
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Hier geht es um Ayurveda, Spiritualität, wie buddhistische Weisheiten und mein Leben in Sri Lanka. Ich lebe mit meiner Familie seid 2018 in Sri Lanka, um dort als zweite Generation ein Guesthouse zuführen. Dafür habe ich meine Ayurveda Praxis in Deutschland aufgegeben, um in dieses Abenteuer einzusteigen. In diesem Podcast, geht es darum wie Du dein Leben schöner, gesünder und glücklicher gestalten kannst. Und Einblick aus meinem Insel Leben. Viel Spass dabei. Danke da es Dich gibt.
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The "Speak Easy” podcast series by Sri Lankans Without Borders ("SLWB") explores Sri Lankan issues from the perspective of the different communities of Sri Lankan origin living in Canada and elsewhere.
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A Speech to Sri Lanka from 2048. I wrote this book to find you.You, who will go on to build an economically developed, rich Sri Lanka. You, who will go on to fulfil the Sri Lankan dream. I wrote this to bring all of you, with a raging fire in your hearts, together. To tell you that you’re not alone. To tell you that you’re not mad to believe you can do this. To be a crutch for your inevitable fails, to clap for your eventual wins. To give you a clear roadmap for how this can work. Let’s get ...
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The Sri Lankan technology industry is extremely underrated and our incredible stories are almost unheard of! It's high time that changed.
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So Sri Lankan is a podcast hosted by two random dudes who are obsessed on pursuing knowledge despite the social problems they face in Sri Lankan society. join with us to discuss unsolved mysteries, study tips, tech news and so called problems Sri Lankans face in their day to day lives while growing up. #sosrilankan #SriLankan #SriLankanpodcast
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This is a daily news podcast focusing on Sri Lanka’s politics, international relations, and local issues that are globally important. The news shared on this podcast are mainly drawn from local newspapers and their headlines so that you could stay updated on the go five days a week. Listen anywhere you get your podcasts. Please share, rate and review the podcast if you find it useful. Twitter: SLnewspodcast Email: srilankannewspodcast@gmail.com Website: https://srilankannewspodcast553553094. ...
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It took a refugee from Nazi Germany, with an interests in economics and Buddhism to note the singular connection between two of the most obvious characteristics that distinguish Sri Lanka. “Small,” remarked E. F. Schumacher in his eponymous book in 1973, “is beautiful.” It was economics, rather than Sri Lanka that Schumacher had in mind, but, as wi…
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After the excesses of Prince Vijaya and Queen Annua, it is time to encounter our third candidate king and winner of an abiding place in the island’s register of wicked monarchs. So little is actually known about Yassalalaka Tissa, King of Anuradhapura that he almost fails to make the cut. And yet three key qualifications mark him, two of which are …
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Wicked, Nefarious, Iniquitous uncovers Sri Lanka’s most fiendish monarchs; and is dedicated to Max and Viveka, two people who, through unimpeachably virtuous, know all that is needed to know about how to handle kings, and queens of any sort, anywhere. The awful thing about wickedness is just how interesting it is. Kind and benevolent rulers; admira…
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The awful thing about wickedness is just how interesting it is. Kind and benevolent rulers; admirable warrior kings; even the fumbling but kindly nice ones who build hospitals and live blameless lives – they all pale into guilt-wrenching insignificance when set before a list saturated by the sinful, iniquitous, and depraved. And in this respect, Sr…
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Encounters at the Jungle Hotel explores The Flame Tree Estate & Hotel, and is dedicated to Otto, our first senior director whose gorgeous, joyful life was all too short in length but never short, even now, in inspiration. Encounters at the Jungle Hotel is a behind the scenes look at Sri Lanka’s Flame Tree Estate & Hotel. It starts, of course with a…
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Encounters at the Jungle Hotel is a behind the scenes look at Sri Lanka’s Flame Tree Estate & Hotel. It starts, of course with a welcome. And a thanks, for coming our way, for most of the readers of this guide will no doubt be our guests. Whatever else is happening in the world, here at least there is a cake for tea; birdsong from dawn to dusk; and…
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This episode is especially for visitors to The Flame Tree Estate and Hotel. To borrow, at least a small part of Emma Lazarus’s famous poem: “Give me your tired, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free -" and we will do our best to help put things right, for it is a comfort to know that it is of little matter whether the glass is half full or h…
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Inside Kandy: A Guide for Curious Visitors
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1:09:09Inside Kandy explores and celebrates Kandy and its hinterland, and it is dedicated to Harindra and Deepthi Dunuwille, two people who exemplify the best, most subtle and kindest side of the city within which they live. Proper guidebooks to Kandy lay out in fine anatomical detail, the history, economy, and topography of the place, its sites and servi…
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The Visitor’s Guide to Galagedera is dedicated to Chinta, marvellous, calm and caring, who worked for many years at the Flame Tree Estate and Hotel; whose smile could transform the bleakest of days and whose death came far before its proper time. And we start with a little bit of retail theory – which will take you down the one of the world’s busie…
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Hidden Trails is the subject of this podcast, which steps off the tourist path to give you a glimpse of the things that really make Sri Lanka tick. Sacred temples, royal palaces, leopards, tea tasting, ancient frescos, sandy beaches, gourmet curries, tamarind martinis, whale watching, trekking, turtle fostering – these are the things that most visi…
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Retail Therapy in a Tuk Tuk, the subject of this episode, will take you down the one of the world’s busiest high streets. And if you wonder about the example chosen – which you may, at first glance, consider eccentric, situated as it is in small village in the middle of an island of barely 20 million people in one of the least visited countries in …
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A Garden Companion To The Flame Tree Estate & Hotel, is a tour through the feral gardens set in the jungle north of Kandy at Sri Lanka’s Flame Tree Estate & Hotel, and is dedicated to John and Judith Holcroft, purveyors of more temperate and better ordered gardens in distant Oxfordshire. “Once, when I was young and true,” wrote Dorothy Parker in 19…
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This episode is dedicated to the sprawling plantation gardens that disappear off into the jungle around Sri Lanka’s Flame Tree Estate & Hotel. This longer of two walks, which we call THE ESTATE WALK, starts at THE PODI PATH just outside the front porch that leads into the hotel. A traditional kitchen constructed of mud and bamboo once stood on this…
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This episode is dedicated to the home garden that is wrapped around Sri Lanka’s The Flame Tree Estate & Hotel. “Once, when I was young and true,” wrote Dorothy Parker in 1926, “Someone left me sad; Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad.” Fortunately, an early broken heart was not to be my fate. Gardens were. Plants. And especially tre…
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Although The Seven Wonders of Ancient Lanka is given over to exploring and celebrating the seven greatest wonders of the ancient Sri Lankan world, it is dedicated to the country’s paramount modern wonder, Marina Hussein. Despite their iconic status, the original seven wonders of the ancient world come up short when compared to the seven wonders of …
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Reservoir, tree, stupas. All came before this, ancient Sri Lanka’s fourth great wonder - a palace built to escape death and suffering. Bulit by the self-same great king, Dutugamunu, who commissioned the Ruwanweliseya, the oldest of Aurnadupura’s three great stupas, the Brazen Palace, or Lowamahapaya, was built between 161 BC to 137 BC. Its name “br…
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250 years after the creation of the island’s first great wonder – the reservoir of Panda Wewa, the second took root - literally. Strictly speaking this wonder was not home grown – but rather an import that, in going native, came to symbolise everything about the land, then as now. No building this, nor even a book or garden, but a tree, a single tr…
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Despite their iconic status, the original seven wonders of the ancient world come up short when compared to the seven wonders of ancient Lanka, this subject of this podcast. The world’s first Seven Wonders was assembled in the 1st century BCE by the historian, Diodorus of Sicily, albeit with help from Herodotus who began the tally 400 years earlier…
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This episode is dedicated to an arc of land that fans out north of Kandy, connected first with the ancient Anuradhapuran kings and their successors before passing to the control of the Kandyan kingdom, whose own borders ebbs and flowed in reaction to European invasions. This neglected northern section of the Kandyan kingdom centred on three main pr…
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This episode is dedicated to a 200 year old mountain war. Hills are of course what Kandy is celebrated for - and its most famous city-centre mountain, Bahirawa Kanda, or Gnome Mountain, is home to one of the tallest statues of Lord Buddha. It was once, more memorably, home to some atypical human sacrifice, involving a particularly beautiful girl, D…
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This episode is dedicated to Kandy - but Kandy as the Buddhist Vatician City of Sri Lanka. Kipling believed that to understand a country and its history you had to smell it. Yet the past is documented in so many other ways - in books, or architecture; in music or even food. In Sri Lanka, it is the temples that best hold its story. Even so, their st…
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This episode is dedicated to a walk down the secretive streets of Kandy. Proper guidebooks to Kandy lay out in fine anatomical detail, the history, economy, and topography of the place, its sites and services listed in useful and functioning order. Sadly, this book does not do that. It is an improper guide, the documentation of a personal quest (so…
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One of Kandy’s greatest and most wonderful secrets is its nature. The city sits in a valley surrounded by 5 main hills, up which, like an indulgent bubble bath, buildings of later regret have begun to creep. But one side of the city remains nicely protected - UdawaththaKele Forest. Once a forest hunting reserve for the kings, it is now a magical 10…
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Asanka de Mel's Speech to Sri Lanka from 2048, launching January 2025, presents a fictional yet insightful vision of Sri Lanka in 2048. The book blends speculative fiction with socio-political commentary, outlining the nation's potential transformation into a global hub for innovation and sustainability. It details key milestones and strategies lea…
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Two periods of state-sponsored homicidal self-indulgence were now to grip the kingdom. The first killings broke out in 195 CE; and the second in 248 CE. Both were leavened by brief moments of stability that managed, with seconds to spare, to prevent the country from collapsing altogether; and give it a modest but life affirming breathing space. Suc…
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In 1929, as Wall Street crashed and the roaring twenties came to an abrupt end, archaeologists digging in faraway Trincomalee uncovered the remains of a once-lofty temple, built a stone’s throw from the Indian Ocean, sometime after 307 CE. Beneath earth, trees, and jungle, stretching out to the shores of a great lake, the Velgam Vehera’s many scatt…
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Far into the north of Sri Lanka, forty kilometres from Anuradhapura to the south, and fifty more to the western seaboard, lie the ruins of a shrivelled reservoir - Kuda Vilach Chiya. The tank is close to some of the country’s most iconic and mythical sites, including the landing place of Prince Vijay, paterfamilias of the nation, the palace of his …
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It took a hundred and twenty-eight years for the last Vijayan kings to travel the final road to oblivion, years that made the mafia tales of the Prohibition era or a Shakespearean tragedy appear tame. But travel them they did – and with unforgettable horror – all eighteen monarchs, of whom at least two thirds were murdered by their successors, plun…
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If ever there was a king who was entitled to get very cross indeed, it was Dutugemunu, one of the island’s standout sovereigns. Known, not unjustifiably as “The Great,” Dutugemunu was to rescue his car crash of a dynasty, only to watch it (albeit from the life thereafter) speed off the proverbial royal road yet again, and with such casual ingratitu…
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Good advice is often nearer to hand than even the most foolish leader can imagine. Or be minded to seek. One hundred and fifty years earlier, and six thousand six hundred and one kilometres away, Thucydides, whose work, The Peloponnesian War, set such standards for history as to anticipate every conceivable future military and political ploy, had t…
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In the previous 100 years Sri Lanka’s little Vijayan kingdom twice risked absolute oblivion, courtesy of its carefree kings. But twice too, in the following 170 years, the self-same state would step up, and prosper beyond all expectations, thanks to two other kings, both innate masters of nation building. For Pandu Kabhaya, and his grandson, Devana…
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“If I want a crown,” remarked Peachey, hero of Kipling’s Man Who Would Be King, and unexpected alter ego of Prince Vijiya, Sri Lanka’s first monarch, “I must go and hunt it for myself.” If Peachey’s motivation was glory and riches, plain and simple, Vijaya’s was about raw survival, dodging assassinations and evading parental disapprobation. If, tha…
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Sri Lanka’s first recorded monarch was to found a dynasty that would last over 600 years. Expelled from either Bengal or Gujarat (scholars argue, as scholars do) by his father, Prince Vijaya, the founding father of an eponymous royal family, arrived on the island in 543 BCE, his landing kicking off the start of recorded Singhala history despite its…
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Adam’s Bridge was a bridge crying out for repair, even before the great storm of 1480 shattered it forever. Unpredictable, and uneven, sailing had long been the better option. But for Sri Lanka’s first settlers – who had still to master boats – a short walk from India was all it took. And walking was what they did: Palaeolithic and later Mesolithic…
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Rusty, derelict, and irresistibly optically-challenged, the old Talaimannar Lighthouse is a gratifyingly improbable key to help unlock the start of Sri Lanka’s recorded history. It presents an even more unlikely clue to explain the profound differences the island presents with the rest of the world. Heraclitus, the weeping philosopher, with his fon…
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Living in a small island in South Asia is not that sad. Compares to other developing nations, Sri Lanka is a still developing country. But, as times goes by I realized this country is poor with money but, rich in beauty and friendly people. So, I want to share to the world how is it like to live in this beautiful green pearl. I hope I could tell yo…
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In this episode, we talk about how to learn forgiving ourselves and others,moving on, and how to not regret and dwell on our past decisions using our very own life experiences. SoundTrack - (MIKA - Relax, Take It Easy) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVmG_d3HKBA --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sosrilankanpodcast…
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Overall, minimalists are happier because they have less worry, stress, and chaos in their lives. To a minimalist, material things are trivial compared to what they value most, which consists of quality time for relationships, time to enjoy the simple pleasures of life, and spiritual health. SoundTrack - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVYezq8Gr2g -…
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14 June 2021: Minister Udaya Gammanpila slams SLPP General Secretary for demanding his resignation over fuel price hikes
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Minister Udaya Gammanpila slams SLPP General Secretary for demanding his resignation over fuel price hikes. Samagi Jana Balawegaya says it is ready to support the Government to reform the Prevention of Terrorism Act. Ranil Wikeremesinghe says Government’s duty is to retain the European Union’s GSP+ trade concessions. --- Send in a voice message: ht…
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Bouquets and brickbats from China- Sri Lanka’s biggest investor. New guidelines to be introduced after lifting the travel restrictions. Both the Alpha and Delta variants of the Covid-19 virus have been found in Sri Lanka. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/srilankannewspodcast/message…
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.27,000 arrested for violating quarantine restrictions. State Minister Ajith Nivard Cabraal invites global firms to be part of Sri Lanka’s growth story. Prime Minister instructs to recall retired nurses to service to augment the Covid fight. Prisoners rights group the Committee for Protecting the Rights of Prisoners makes an urgent appeal to the Un…
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.Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa invites global companies to select Sri Lanka as their “investment destination of choice. President has urged officials to implement the decision to use organic fertilizer despite the challenges. GMOA says the dependency on oxygen by Covid-19 patients has gone up by 441%. Government plans to vaccinate the entire pop…
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.President Gotabaya Rajapaksa invites the world to invest in Sri Lanka. Government stakeholders to plan legal action on MV X-Press Pearl disaster. UNP has decided to send the party leader to Parliament as he is a mature politician, says the UNP's Deputy Leader. Sri Lanka to start manufacturing Sinovax vaccine next month. Move to co-produce Sputnik …
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750 French naval personnel arrive in Sri Lanka under the bio bubble system. UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe calls for a Parliamentary Select Committee to be appointed to look into the MV XPress Pearl incident. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/srilankannewspodcast/message…
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4 June 2021: Sri Lanka among the Asian countries the US has allocated 7mil COVID-19 vaccines doses
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President says the economy should not collapse despite the spread of COVID-19. Government denies fault over the X-Press Pearl. Sri Lankan foreign ministers responds to the US House of Representatives Resolution H. RES 413. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/srilankannewspodcast/message…
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Trace restrictions within the country extended till June 14. MV X Press Pearl starts to sink raising fears about a potential oil leak. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/srilankannewspodcast/message
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2 June 2021: Preliminary discussions held to set up Sinovac manufacturing plant in Sri Lanka
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A team at the Sri Jayawardenepura University commences research on the Sputnik V vaccine's efficacy. President directs the Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) to tow the MV X-Press Pearl into the deep seas off the coast of Colombo. Multiple properties in Colombo are to be opened up for investments under a Private Public Partnership model…
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President appoints members to the Port City Commission. Former Prime Minister to enter the parliament on the sole UNP seat. Russia informs Sri Lanka that Sputnik V vaccine can be used as a single shot. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/srilankannewspodcast/message
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Sri Lanka plans to sue the owners of MV XPress Pearl. SJB MP Marikkar alleges that the government is paying more than Bangladesh for Sinopharm vaccines. Nurses go on sick leave today. JVP alleges that the government plans to bring in urban waste from China as carbonic fertilizer. Tvoao8yjnxtJbiz57547fs4Wxg59l21jxu743do1 --- Send in a voice message:…
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