Sri Lanka’s ancient, almost lost martial art
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Sri Lanka’s ancient, almost lost martial art
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#2I could see close parallels with ancient martial art Kalaripayattu [1] practiced in southern Indian state of Kerala.
It's very popular and still being practiced there
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalaripayattu
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#3As a Sri Lankan it breaks my heart whenever this type of topic is brought up, the amount of damage colonizers including the British did to my country, my culture is just heart wrenching.
How the British and other colonizers go unpunished for all what they have done not just to my country, but to so many other countries in the past is just unbelievable.
But on a more positive side, more and more Sri Lankans are starting to realize what's missing and are actively trying to bring back some of the knowledge and wisdom that was lost all those many years back.
Re: Sri Lanka’s ancient, almost lost martial art
#4I could see close parallels with ancient martial art Kalaripayattu [1] practiced in southern Indian state of Kerala. It's very popular and still being practiced there [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalaripayattu
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Re: Sri Lanka’s ancient, almost lost martial art
#5As a Sri Lankan it breaks my heart whenever this type of topic is brought up, the amount of damage colonizers including the British did to my country, my culture is just heart wrenching. How the British and other colonizers go unpunished for all what they have done not just to my country, but to so many other countries in the past is just unbelievable. But on a more positive side, more and more Sri Lankans are starti…
Not related to the article, but would you be able to comment on why Sinhala is classified as an Indo-European language, rather than as a Dravidian language?
Re: Sri Lanka’s ancient, almost lost martial art
#6As a Sri Lankan it breaks my heart whenever this type of topic is brought up, the amount of damage colonizers including the British did to my country, my culture is just heart wrenching. How the British and other colonizers go unpunished for all what they have done not just to my country, but to so many other countries in the past is just unbelievable. But on a more positive side, more and more Sri Lankans are starti…
Not related to the article, but would you be able to comment on why Sinhala is classified as an Indo-European language, rather than as a Dravidian language?
Not OP, but Sinhala is classified as Indo-Aryan having developed when Buddhism spread to Srilanka and separate from Dravidian family of languages which is mostly limited to Southern part of India
Re: Sri Lanka’s ancient, almost lost martial art
#7As a Sri Lankan it breaks my heart whenever this type of topic is brought up, the amount of damage colonizers including the British did to my country, my culture is just heart wrenching. How the British and other colonizers go unpunished for all what they have done not just to my country, but to so many other countries in the past is just unbelievable. But on a more positive side, more and more Sri Lankans are starti…
Not related to the article, but would you be able to comment on why Sinhala is classified as an Indo-European language, rather than as a Dravidian language?
Because it is descended from Sanskrit which has been known to be an Indo-European language since the very beginning of comparative linguistics.
It is genetically unrelated to Dravidian languages, but it does have a lot of Dravidian loanwords.
Re: Sri Lanka’s ancient, almost lost martial art
#8I could see close parallels with ancient martial art Kalaripayattu [1] practiced in southern Indian state of Kerala. It's very popular and still being practiced there [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalaripayattu
I agree. The kacha, kalari all look too similar to be a coincidence. Similar style is followed in TN as well.
Re: Sri Lanka’s ancient, almost lost martial art
#9As a Sri Lankan it breaks my heart whenever this type of topic is brought up, the amount of damage colonizers including the British did to my country, my culture is just heart wrenching. How the British and other colonizers go unpunished for all what they have done not just to my country, but to so many other countries in the past is just unbelievable. But on a more positive side, more and more Sri Lankans are starti…
> How the British and other colonizers go unpunished
And who would do that punishment? Colonization occurred because country X had overwhelming military strength over country Y, defeats it militarily and then occupied it. Absolutely nothing new historically or humanly wise: it's like this since the dawn of time; and it's true in the animal world too. The only way for Sri Lanka to "punish" England is to become military strong but whining on a website (created by a descendant country of the said colonizer) won't do it. And if anything most of the former colonial powers, to the notable exception of Japan, are currently willingly punishing themselves already by allowing millions of people from former colonies to immigrate.
Re: Sri Lanka’s ancient, almost lost martial art
#10As a Sri Lankan it breaks my heart whenever this type of topic is brought up, the amount of damage colonizers including the British did to my country, my culture is just heart wrenching. How the British and other colonizers go unpunished for all what they have done not just to my country, but to so many other countries in the past is just unbelievable. But on a more positive side, more and more Sri Lankans are starti…
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