Following is the full message: Let us welcome with joy the New Year that has dawned. The “Aluth Avurudda” is a great cultural festival that has been observed by us from ancient times. It is the ...

Landmark days, like the 1 st of January and, more importantly for us in Sri Lanka, the Aluth Avurudda in the month of Bak (that’s April), are about renewal, discarding of hang-ups and errors, and a ...

Homes are scrubbed clean, tables adorned with symbols of prosperity, and families come together, engaging in traditions that date back millennia. Sri Lanka’s Aluth Avurudda, or Sinhala and Tamil New ...

Sri Lanka’s Aluth Avurudda, or Sinhala and Tamil New Year, unfolds in April. It’s a time when the harvest is brought in, and the sun moves from Pisces to Aries. Marking this astrological ...