Colonel Henry Steele Olcott in 1886 founded Ananda College, in a private house in Colombo with just 37 students. The school has come a long way since then and now has around 7000 students on roll.

Buddha statues cut out of rock are seen in many places in Sri Lanka ... Although at one stage it was thought to be the image of Ananda, one of the principal disciples of the Buddha, in sorrow at the ...