Jacques Christian Soulié (1939–2025), psychiatrist and writer, reflects on Sri Lanka—his country of adoption—in a rare, out-of-print travel guide and its poignant afterword.

Through contrasting cases from Sri Lanka, this essay examines cultural symbolism, postcolonial sensitivity, and why moral judgments around images are not universally shared.

Translating Sunethra Rajakarunanayake into French meant learning how to tell her world differently. It meant shifting a reading contract from one cultural context to a completely different one, without ever betraying what makes the original book what it is.

The Suriyakantha Centre for Art and Culture is proud to announce the release of its first official audioguide, now available in English and French.

In the final weeks of his life, Jacques read very little. He could still listen to music, but books had largely slipped out of reach. For a man who owned more than 7,000 volumes, this must have been, I believe, a painful reality.

A little while after my beloved wife Anoma passed away, I immersed myself in the Herculean task of translating the great literature masterpiece, the Mahawamsa into French from the existing English version which had been done by Professor Wilhelm Geiger.

A psychiatrist by training, professor of French and psychiatry, French by birth and Sri Lankan at heart, a man of the arts, of spirit and of compassion — Dr. Jacques Christian Soulié passed away on July 5 at his home, perched high above Kandy, facing the mythical Hanthana mountains he so dearly loved....

A novel by Sunethra Rajakarunanayake, translated from Sinhala by Janaka Samarakoon

The Artist's Statement of this Thomas Merton Commemorative Event

Over the years, as I delved into the life and work of THOMAS MERTON (1915-1968), I've been astonished by the limited local recollection of this captivating personality…

During the 20th century, a series of clay figurines and other artifacts with formal similarities were discovered in various locations in the central-northern part of Sri Lanka.

Despite choosing a life of prayer and contemplation as a Trappist monk, Thomas Merton engaged in remarkable exchanges with activists, artists, political leaders, and influential theologians of his time.

Cartography — the art of making maps — is deeply rooted in human history…

Marie Gatellier’s "Peintures murales du Sri Lanka" remains to this day the most comprehensive French-language publication devoted to the emblematic pictorial tradition of Kandyan mural painting in Sri Lanka.

On January 25, 1998, three "Black Tigers," formidable suicide attackers specially trained for deadly attacks, drove a truck filled with explosives into the entrance of the Temple of the Tooth.

The Sri Lankan pictorial tradition, widely recognized as the "Kandyan school" or "Kandyan style," represents a profoundly iconic body of work that thrived under the patronage of the Kings of Kandy…

The film focuses on a specific Buddhist blessing ritual, performed for various occasions, including the expectant mother at seven months of pregnancy.

The Nâga Rassa mask is used in the kolam performance, a "rural opera" practiced in the coastal cities of southern Sri Lanka.