Politics are normally wild in Ceylon. Last week they were even wilder than usual. The world’s only woman head of government, Mrs. Solomen West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, who has ruled Ceylon since ...

In the early 1950s, beginning in 1952 to be precise, All India Radio stopped broadcasting Hindi film music. Getting your hands on international music wasn’t the easiest thing to do back in the 1950s, ...

Lit In Ceylon, the new mixtape from veteran Three 6 Mafia knucklehead Juicy J, has a title that makes me wonder what it’s like to party in Sri Lanka, and it opens with Juicy saying, “All lives matter.

What might Louis Mountbatten, the last viceroy of British India, have to do with the popularity of filmi music? Quite a bit, it turns out. During the Second World War, Mountbatten, then supreme Allied ...