FirstUp: Sri Lanka election results to be declared, PM Modi in Bihar... Big headlines today
The results of Sri Lanka’s general election will be announced today after snap polls were announced by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi will head to Bihar to ...
Food, Offering, Medicine, Political Symbol: What the Lotus Means in Sri Lanka
“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...