Dr. Ayesha Wickramasinghe, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Textile and Apparel Engineering, at the University of Moratuwa, has recently published her doctoral research on sartorial styles, The ...

It was such a coincidence that I was thinking of the events that led to the establishment of our publishing unit, when, to pay respects to the soul of my father, who was a great admirer of the ...

Ananda Coomaraswamy's life story has been told in some detail by Roger Lipsey in a model biography, sympathetic but clear-eyed and critical, painstakingly researched but not burdened with trivial ...

"Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy is the key figure responsible for introducing ancient Indian art to the West. He is noted especially for his efforts to solve one of the great (and remaining) mysteries of ...

The Nelum Pokuna Mawatha which abuts the Nelum Pokuna Mahinda Rajapaksa Theatre and stretches between Horton Place Roundabout and the Public Library Roundabout was renamed Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha ...

New Delhi, August 23 The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) hosted the third Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Memorial Lecture on Thursday, featuring an insightful discussion on the ...

The decision to re-name part of Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha (formerly known as Green Path) to ‘Nelum Pokuna Mawatha’ following the opening of the Nelum Pokuna Mahinda Rajapaksa Performing Arts Theatre ...

When Bruce Dickson, a British bureaucrat who had served in South Africa, attended lectures on India at the University of Illinois in 1910, he was shocked by the way Britain’s colonisation of the ...

Dr. G. B. Harish is a rare scholar. Besides holding a doctoral degree in Kannada, he is well-versed in Sanskrit, Pali and English; and his expertise ranges from Kannada literature to Buddhist and ...

Dr. Ayesha Wickramasinghe, with her technical skills and historical interests, appears to have heard Coomaraswamy’s implicit call to study the neglected crafts of Lanka, to look back at our traditions ...