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  Kala suri kala keerthi   Dr.  Keselgaspe Manatunga Jayalath Manoratne ,    12 June 1948 – 12 January 2020, popularly known as  Jayalath Manoratne , was an award-winning actor in sri lankan cinema,stege drama   and television.  He was a lecturer by profession as well as a director and producer. A highly versatile actor from drama to comedy, Manoratne won awards at OCIC,  Presidential, Sarasavi, Raigam Tele'es, Sumathi and the State Literary and Drama festivals. He was the best actor back to back in 1991 and 1992 for his performance in Socrates and Dvitva.  He is considered by critics as one of the five actors who have dominated the Sri Lankan Stage .     In 1966 Manoratne started acting when he was a school student, making his acting debut in the stage drama   Aspha Gudung , which was selected for the finals of the annual provincial inter-school drama competition and won the Certificate of Excellence in Per...

                                              Taj Mahal The  Taj Mahal   lit    'Crown of the Palace is an ivory-white marble mausoleum   on the right bank of the river Yamuna  in the Indian city ofb Agra.  It was commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperoe shah jahan  (reigned from 1628 to 1658) to house the tomb of his favourite wife, Mumataz mahal; it also houses the tomb of Shah Jahan himself. The tomb is the centrepiece of a 17-hectare (42-acre) complex, which includes a mosque  m  and a guest house, and is set in formal gardens bounded on three sides by a crenellated wall. Construction of the mausoleum was essentially completed in 1643, but work continued on other phases of the project for another 10 years. The Taj Mahal complex is believed to have been completed in...

                                          Eiffel Tower The  Eiffel Tower  is a wrought iron lattice tower on the champ de mars in paris,   France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower. Locally nicknamed " La dame de fer " (French for "Iron Lady"), it was constructed from 1887 to 1889 as the centerpiece of the 1889 world's fair  and was initially criticized by some of France's leading artists and intellectuals for its design, but it has become a global culrural icon  of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world. The Eiffel Tower is the most visited monument with an entrance fee in the world; 6.91 million people ascended it in 2015. The Tower was made a Monument historique in 1964 and named part of UNESCO World Heritage Site ("P...

                                Gautama Buddha Gautama Buddha,  popularly known as the  Buddha  or  Lord Buddha  (also known as  Siddhattha Gotama  or  Siddhārtha Gautama  or  Buddha Shakyamuni ), was a sramana who lived in ancient india   (c. 6th to 5th century BCE or c. 5th to 4th century BCE). He is regarded as the founder of the world religion of Busshism, and revered by most Buddhist schools as a sevior, the Enlightened one   who rediscovered an ancient path to release clinging and craving and escape the cycle of birth and rebirth.  He taught for around 45 years and built a large following, both monastic and lay. His teaching is based on his insight into the arising of duhkha  (the unsatisfactoriness of clinging to impermanent states and things) and the ending ...

  Valentine's Day , also called  Saint Valentine's Day  or the  Feast of Saint Valentine , is celebrated annually on February 14. It originated as a Christian feast day honoring one or two early christian martyrs named saint valentine  and, through later folk traditions, has become a significant cultural, religious, and commercial celebration of romance   and  love in many regions of the  world.    There are a number of martyrdom stories associated with various Valentines connected to February 14,   including an account of the imprisonment of Saint Valentine of Rome for ministering to Christians persecuted under the Roman Empire  in the third century.   According to an early tradition, Saint Valentine restored sight to the blind daughter of his jailer. Numerous later additions to the legend have better related it to the theme of love: an 18th-century embellishment to the legend claims h...

  Though Sri Lankan food has parallels to South Indian food, yet it remains distinctly its own form of cuisine. Throughout years of colonization and influence from other countries, Sri Lanka has adapted its food culture into a blend of different curry concoctions and tasty dishes. A few things about Sri Lankan food can be said with certainty: Sri Lankans thoroughly love spices, they love food that explodes with flavor, and many enjoy deep fried, and very tasty, snacks. Whatever you choose to eat in Sri Lanka, your mouth is going to rejoice with happiness. Sri Lanka, being an island with a tropical climate, coconuts and fish are two of the most influential components of Sri Lankan cuisine. Fish is made into curries, and coconut in some form or another, is a dominant ingredient in cooking. Rice and curry is the Sri Lankan staple, though various kinds of bread, both roti style flatbreads and even loaves of bread, are very common. FISH CURRY AND MIXED RICE 1. Fish Curry ...