Jaffna Public Library has a painful history behind its pure white walls. It was burnt down during days of mob violence between May 31, 1981 and June 2.Sri Lankan state-sponsored authorities had been ...

The destruction of a Sri Lankan library helped spark a civil war, and its reconstruction helps signal the war’s end Arunasalam Sanmugadas smiles when he remembers learning to read as a child. His ...

Rising two stories and capped by three domes, the Jaffna Public Library looks a bit like a stately wedding cake. Gleaming white under the Sri Lanka sun, the building's classical lines and beautiful ...

A centre of Tamil learning in Jaffna was attacked and destroyed. No, not last week, but 40 years ago, in 1981, the iconic Jaffna Library, a seat of Tamil language, literature and learning was burnt to ...

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe today apologised for the burning of Jaffna Library in 1981 and urged the Joint Opposition to apologize for what happened during that time as well. “The public ...

The programme to develop the Jaffna Library into an e-library was inaugurated this morning (01) under the patronage of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. Accordingly, the website jaffna.dlp.gov.lk ...

The detection of a stock of live ammunition, a detonator and parts of an assault rifle in a library building at the ...

Jaffna City the capital of Sri Lanka’s predominantly Tamil speaking northern province was described as the cultural capital of the Tamils of Sri Lanka during its halcyon days. The escalation of the ...

The Jaffna library once held irreplaceable, ancient manuscripts, lost when it was torched in 1981. Fully restored, the beloved landmark today is... Up From The Ashes, A Public Library In Sri Lanka ...