Category: Special Days
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The Great Night of Shiva
Maha Shivaratri is a major festival celebrated by Hindu devotees all around the world annually in honor of the god Shiva. In Sanskrit, Maha Shivaratri is interpreted as “Great Night of Shiva”, which means, it is the day where god Shiva performs the heavenly dance, the dance of creation, preservation, and destruction. In the Hindu…
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Who run the world? GIRLS!
Celebrated on March 8th International Women’s Day (IWD) is focused on commemorating the cultural, political, social, and economic achievements of women. It is also acknowledged to make people aware of women’s rights and gender equality. The theme for this year is ‘Choose to Challenge’ which signifies that women choose to challenge gender bias and inequality…
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Through the eyes of a Nature Lover
Since 2013, “World Wildlife Day” is being celebrated on 3rd March. Each year, the day is celebrated under a new theme. To point up the central role of forests and their ecosystems in sustaining and uplifting the livelihoods of millions of people around the world, the theme for this year is revealed as “Forest and…
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වැලන්ටයින් ආදරය?
අද සිටියා නම් සිදුහත් කුමරුට කල්පයක් පෙම් කල යශෝධරාව සිනා සෙනු ඇත ආදරය නොහඳුනන උන් ආදරයට දවසක් වෙන් කරන අපූරුව දැක… බුද්ධ චරිතය ගැන දන්නා ඕනෑම කෙනෙකුට ඉහත වාක්ය කණ්ඩය ගැන පැහැදිලි කිරීමට අවශ්ය නැත. දීපංකර බුදුන් පාද මූලයේ අප මහා බෝසතුන් නියත විවරන ගත් දා පටන් සෙවනැල්ලක් මෙන්ම සිටි…
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It’s the Born Day of a Man of his word
“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.” – Abraham Lincoln Those were the words from a person who was once a farmer and then went on to become the President of the United States. Born in Hodgenville, Kentucky on February 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln grew up in Indiana…
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International Day of Women and Girls in Science
The International Day of Women and Girls in Science came to be in the United Nations General Assembly on the 22nd of December 2015. The UN decided to allocate a special day to focus on and encourage girls to pursue higher education or careers in the fields of STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics,…
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Together Let’s Celebrate the 73rd Independence Day
Before foreign invasions, during 1505 – 1615, Sri Lanka was known as Ceylon and it was a beautiful island with a lot of commercial value. In the early 17th century due to European Renaissance, European countries were unable to buy their spices from the Eastern countries. These businesses were mainly handled by Muslims in that…
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International Day of Education
The objective of education is to produce a good educated person for the country, the village and the society. Thus on December 3rd 2018, The United Nations General Assembly announced January 24th of each year to commemorate the role of education in contributing to global peace and sustainable development. Its theme this year is to…
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The real meaning of Christmas!
What is Christmas? Christmas is widely known as an annual festival celebrated in remembrance of Christ’s birth. Even though it is a festival that belongs to Christians, billions of people around the world celebrate Christmas as a day of happiness, family gatherings, gift-giving, and banqueting. Christmas is one of the festivals that unites people of different nationalities,…
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“Words travel worlds. Translators do the driving”
“If we are talking to a man in a language he understands, that will go to his head. But If we talk to him in his own language, that will go to his heart”. International Translation Day is observed on 30th September every year to raise awareness about the translation profession. It helps in promoting…
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~Real Heroes never die! Say NO to suicide!~
Life is a war. Living is a struggle. Thus, in a way we all are warriors. Being a human and getting a controllable life to live is a miracle. The more this life meet obstacles, more it becomes beautiful, as a river flowing through hills and slopes. Unfortunately, we humans who seek short cuts for…
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I don’t want to survive. I want to live. – The mourn of a slave! ආසයි මමත් ජීවිතය විඳින්න… – වහලෙකුගේ වැළපීම!
“I don’t want to survive. I want to live” This popular quote emphasizes on the appalling factor of slave trade which was said by Solomon Northup, a free African-American man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery. Slavery-the word itself generates an averse, enraged and also a sorrowful feeling. Some of you may think there…
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අපි වෙනුවෙන් අපි විතරද? Are we the only ones for us?
අපි වෙනුවෙන් අපි විතරද? – ලෝක මානුෂික දිනය රාජකාරි අතරතුර මරණයට පත්වීම ඔබට දැනෙන්නේ කොහොමද ? අතිශය කාර්යබහුල අවස්ථාවන්වලදී “මෙහෙම වැඩ කරොත් මැරෙන්න තමයි වෙන්නේ” උදම් අනන ඔබ රාජකාරි අතරතුර මියයන කම්කරු ප්රජාව වෙනුවෙන් දිනක් වෙන් කර ඇති බව දැන සිටියාද ? ඔව් ඒ අගෝස්තු 19 ! 2003 වර්ශයෙ ඉරාකයේ බැග්ඩෑඩ් නගරයේ පිහිටි Canal හෝටලයේ…
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A Note for Our Day – අපේ දවස වෙනුවෙන් සටහනක්
“The Youth “of a Nation is regarded to be its spirit. Youth symbolizes the liveliness and the energy of a community. Youth today has the power to determine the future of a country. Youth is the time of life when one is young. Often it is the period between childhood and adult age. For statistical…
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