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Sri Lankan cricket team in India in 2014–15

Sri Lanka tour of India 2014-15 (Micromax Cup): five ODIs, 2-16 Nov 2014, arranged after West Indies withdrew. India, led by stand-in captain Virat Kohli, won 5-0; Rohit Sharma hit a record 264.

Sri Lankan cuisine

Sri Lankan cuisine is the rice-and-curry food tradition of Sri Lanka, built on coconut, spices, and native Ceylon cinnamon, shaped by Sinhalese, Tamil, Muslim, and Burgher communities plus Portuguese, Dutch, and British influences.

Sri Lankan economic crisis

The Sri Lankan economic crisis was a 2022 sovereign debt collapse in which Sri Lanka defaulted for the first time since independence, triggering protests and a US$3 billion IMF program.

Sri Lankan Moors

Sri Lankan Moors, or Sri Lanka Moors, are a Tamil-speaking Sunni Muslim ethnic group, 10.47 percent of the 2024 census population, of Arab-Persian merchant descent, distinct from Tamils and Sinhalese.

Sri Lankan pop

Sri Lankan pop is the popular music of Sri Lanka, sung mainly in Sinhala and English, from baila roots through the 1960s band era to today.

Sri Lankan rupee

The Sri Lankan rupee, also known as the Ceylon rupee, is the currency of Sri Lanka, issued by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka since 1951.

Sri Lankan sporting disappearances

Sri Lankan sporting disappearances: athletes and officials vanishing during international events abroad, most famously the 23-member fake 2004 handball team in Germany and ten missing athletes from the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games, usually to escape civil war or economic crisis.

Sri Lankan Tamil literature

Sri Lankan Tamil literature, also called Eelam Tamil literature (ஈழத்துத் தமிழ் இலக்கியம்), is Tamil-language writing by Sri Lankan Tamils and their diaspora, spanning classical verse, colonial prose, and war-era and diasporic work.

Sri Lankan Tamils

Sri Lankan Tamils, also called Ceylon or Jaffna Tamils, are an ethnic group about 11.2% of Sri Lanka's population, descended from ancient migrants from southern India, concentrated in the north and east, mostly Hindu Tamil-speaking, and distinct from Hill Country Tamils.

Sri Lumay

Sri Lumay, also known as Rajamuda Lumaya, is the legendary founder of the Rajahnate of Cebu in the pre-colonial Philippines, described as a Chola prince whose scorched-earth defense gave Cebu its old name Sugbu.

Sri Maharaja's attack on Mataram

Sri Maharaja's attack on Mataram was the assault by King Wurawari of Lwaram that destroyed the Medang (Mataram) kingdom's court in Java in 1016 or 1017, killing King Dharmawangsa.

Sri Pahang FC

Sri Pahang FC, also called Pahang FA or Tok Gajah, a Malaysian football club founded 1959, Super League member that withdrew from the 2025/26 M-League despite a National License and was suspended by the MFL.

Sri Ponna

Sri Ponna (ಶ್ರೀ ಪೊನ್ನ) was a tenth-century Jaina poet, active about 950 at the Rashtrakuta court of Krishna III, honored with the title Kavichakravarti, "emperor among poets."

Sri Prakash Lohia

Sri Prakash Lohia, born 1952 in Kolkata, is an Indonesian petrochemical and fertilizer tycoon who founded Indorama Corporation with his father and is among Indonesia's richest people.

Sri Rama Rajyam

Sri Rama Rajyam (శ్రీరామరాజ్యం), a 2011 Telugu mythological drama directed by Bapu, starring Balakrishna as Rama, Nayanthara as Sita, ANR as Valmiki; Uttara Kanda remake of Lava Kusha (1963), released 17 November 2011.

Sri Ramadasu (శ్రీరామదాసు)

Sri Ramadasu (శ్రీ రామదాసు) is a 2006 Telugu devotional biographical film by K. Raghavendra Rao starring Nagarjuna as saint Kancharla Gopanna, with music by M.M. Keeravani; a reimagining of the 1964 Bhakta Ramadasu.

Sri Ramayana Darshanam

Sri Ramayana Darshanam (ಶ್ರೀ ರಾಮಾಯಣ ದರ್ಶನಂ) is a modern Kannada epic poem in which Kuvempu retells Valmiki's Ramayana, winning the 1968 Jnanpith Award, the first for Kannada.

Sri Ramayana Kalpavruksham

Sri Ramayana Kalpavruksham, also rendered Srimadramayana Kalpavrukshamu, is a Telugu epic poem by Viswanatha Satyanarayana that retells Valmiki's Ramayana; written from 1931 to 1961, it won the first Jnanpith Award given to a Telugu writer.

Sri Satta

Sri Satta, also written Si Satha or Sri Sraddha, was a fourteenth-century monk of Sukhothai whose 1344 return from Sri Lanka with Buddha relics founded the Sinhalese forest tradition in northern Thailand.

Śrī Siṃha

Śrī Siṃha (Tibetan: Dpal gyi Sengge, "Glorious Lion") was an 8th-century Indian master who codified the Dzogchen Menngagde teachings into four cycles in the Nyingma lineage.

Sri Sri

Sri Sri (శ్రీశ్రీ) was the pen name of Srirangam Srinivasa Rao, a twentieth-century Telugu poet and lyricist from Visakhapatnam whose free-verse Mahaprasthanam became a landmark of progressive Telugu poetry.

Sri Sri Sri Raja Vaaru

Sri Sri Sri Raja Vaaru (శ్రీ శ్రీ శ్రీ రాజావారు) is a 2025 Telugu drama directed by Satish Vegesna, starring Narne Nithiin and Sampada. An adaptation of the Malayalam film Theevandi about a smoker's quit challenge, delayed since 2020, released 6 June 2025, flopped, and streamed on Prime Video and aha from 4 July 2025.

Sri Srinivasan

Sri Srinivasan (Srikanth Srinivasan), born 1967 in Chandigarh, India, is chief judge of the D.C. Circuit since 2020; former Principal Deputy Solicitor General, Obama appointee confirmed 2013, once shortlisted for the Supreme Court.

Sri Suriyawong

Sri Suriyawong, born Chuang Bunnag, was the leading minister of Siam under King Mongkut and regent for the young King Chulalongkorn from 1868 to 1873.

Sri Thanonchai

Si Thanonchai (ศรีธนญชัย) is one of the oldest Thai folktales, about a cunning trickster from central Thailand who outwits others with wit and wordplay, known abroad as Xiang Miang and Thmenh Chey.

Sri Vaishnava community

The Sri Vaishnava community (ஸ்ரீவைஷ்ணவர்) is a South Indian Hindu community devoted to Vishnu, organized by Ramanuja at Srirangam and divided today into the Vadakalai and Tenkalai subsects.

Sri Vaishnava tradition

The Sri Vaishnava tradition (श्री वैष्णव सम्प्रदाय) is a South Indian Vaishnava religious order worshipping Vishnu with Sri (Lakshmi) and teaching Vishishtadvaita, organized by Ramanuja at Srirangam.

Sri Venkateswara Creations (శ్రీ వెంకటేశ్వర క్రియేషన్స్)

Sri Venkateswara Creations, also written శ్రీ వెంకటేశ్వర క్రియేషన్స్, is an Indian film production company in Hyderabad founded by producer Dil Raju in 2003, known for Telugu family films like Dil and Bommarillu.

Sri Yantra

The Sri Yantra, also called the Sri Chakra, is a Hindu ritual diagram of nine interlocking triangles around a central bindu, representing the goddess Tripurasundari in the Srividya tradition.

Sriayuthaya Lion Park

Sriayuthaya Lion Park, a private zoo opened in 2021 in Tha Ruea District, Ayutthaya, Thailand, near Bangkok, holding lions, tigers, ligers, liligers, and rare douc langurs, with animal shows and documented welfare criticism.