Saturday, April 13 marked the Sinhala and Tamil New Year, one of Sri Lanka’s main cultural holidays. Commonly known as “Avurudu” in Sinhala and as “Puthandu” or “Puththandu” in Tamil, the celebration ...
During the avuduru season, TV channels are full of special features on the subject. We have got used to a set pattern of listening to the same stuff year in, year out. So it was refreshing to watch an ...
Avurudu/ Puththandu is a time of tradition, and of course celebration of the New Year with family. Generations of Sinhala Buddhists and Tamil Hindus have followed the same customs every year, albeit ...
No Avurudu would be complete without an Avurudu Ulela. It has become part of our national social calendar, an event that must be organised, a tradition that must be kept. Practically every institution ...
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