Galle from Above: Drone Views of a Dutch Colonial Gem. Posted: May 26, 2025 | Last updated: May 26, 2025. Fly over Galle, a beautifully preserved Dutch colonial fort city on Sri Lanka’s southern ...

Galle Fort, a Unesco World Heritage site on the southwest coast of Sri Lanka, is a beautiful and well preserved gateway to the country’s colonial past and cultural richness. Built by the ...

Ella’s Café Chill serves ones of Sri Lanka’s must-try meals, lamprais, which dates back to the 17th century Dutch period, with rice, curry, deep fried boiled egg and aubergine, all wrapped in ...

While it is true that sati gave rise to lurid, often ridiculous propaganda in the colonial period—foreigners, part scandalised, part transfixed by it, gave it many strange origin myths—it was ...

The UK extracted USD 64.82 trillion from India over a century of colonialism between 1765 and 1900 and USD 33.8 trillion of this went to the richest 10 per cent -- enough money to carpet London in ...

Panaji: Tiatr was not only a key form of entertainment during Goa’s colonial era, but it was also the result of a shift in political, cultural and soc.

An American silver coin from before the American Revolution that was recovered in an old cabinet in Amsterdam sold for $2.52 million at an auction, decimating the previous record. The threepence co… ...

In this era of globalization, the only way out of poverty and backwardness is through collaboration to develop the resources at hand. Africa, the owner of untapped natural resources, still ...

The often-touted position by fraternisers of the British period that they “provided jobs” was nothing more than the opportunity to be grateful to be able to taste the master’s boot on your neck.

Conversion was often a violent affair, but that doesn’t mean it was 100% successful. Colonial Latin America was home to many different spiritual traditions from Indigenous, African and Asian ...

Conversion was often a violent affair, but that doesn’t mean it was 100% successful. Colonial Latin America was home to many different spiritual traditions from Indigenous, African and Asian ...