The little-known coastal town of Galle is almost a Sri Lankan secret ... the Southern part of the subcontinent which included Ceylon. Colonial architecture, especially martial, is its leitmotif ...

Little known is that in colonial Ceylon, the Ceylon Observer newspaper which was initially based in Galle and Colombo adopted the technique of utilising carrier pigeons to transmit news. In 1850, the ...

In the quiet embrace of the Galle Fort Art Gallery, words poured like warm tea steaming, rich, and steeped in two hundred years of tea plucking history at this year’s Galle Literary Festival.

(The road between Galle and Colombo has warning signs ... “the lovely sweep of roof and minimum four pillars of the best Ceylon Dutch houses”. It was built in an L-shape and Daswatte ...