National Trust Lecture: Getting to know Sri Lanka’s kovils
View(s):Prof. S. Pathmanathan will deliver the monthly National Trust lecture on ‘Kovils of Sri Lanka’ at the HNB Auditorium, 22nd Floor, HNB Towers, 479 T.B. Jayah Mawatha, Colombo 10 on Thursday, July 31 at 6.30 p.m.
Chancellor of the University of Jaffna, Prof. Pathmanathan has been the Vice- Chairman of the University Grants Commision and Professor of History at the Universities of Jaffna and Peradeniya. He studied History, Tamil and Sanskrit at the University of Peradeniya and had his postgraduate education at the University of London in the Department of South Asian History at the School of Oriental and African Studies.
He is a member of the Editorial Board of “ History and Archaeology of Sri Lanka”, a project by the Central Cultural Fund to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Independence. He is also a member of the Apex Committee, Glossary of Technical Terms in Tamil, Official Language Commission and has been a Consultant to the Ministry of Hindu Affairs.
