JAFFNA, Sri Lanka Jaffna Public Library has a painful history behind its pure white walls. It was burnt down during days of mob violence between May 31, 1981 and June 2.

The Jaffna Public Library, destroyed in 1981 and rebuilt twice since, once sat in a no man's land between warring forces. It's been fully restored and become a haven for readers young and old.

The Jaffna public library has emotional significance for the Tamils of northern Sri Lanka. Organised Sinhalese mobs attacked and burnt it over two days in mid-1981, reportedly with the connivance ...

It’s not the Jaffna heat that is worrying her, she is used to it. What she is not used to is being away from the collection of books she has seen grow at the Jaffna Public Library through ...

More and more adverse developments began to emerge. The most negative among them was the news that enraged policemen had burnt down the Jaffna Public Library with all its invaluable collection of ...

The recent incident of vandalism at the Jaffna public library could have been a case of spontaneous if misplaced public rage but it brought back memories of two chilling nights in 1981 when the ...

Taranjit Singh Sandhu, the Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, donated as many as 16,000 books to the iconic Jaffna Public Library in Sri Lanka on Thursday. The new donated collection will be ...

The Jaffna public library which had over 90,000 rare books and palm-leaf manuscripts was burnt by a Sinhalese mob in 1981. Subsequently, the library was rebuilt and opened in 2003.

The JCC is located close to the Jaffna Public Library. The design for the Jaffna Cultural Centre (JCC) is based on the twin concepts of "celebrating the old and inspiring the new" & "a civic space ...

It’s not the Jaffna heat that is worrying her, she is used to it. What she is not used to is being away from the collection of books she has seen grow at the Jaffna Public Library through ...