Maryam Vakhidova, PhD., Grand PhD Since it is the matter of both joint research projects and knowledge sharing, as it has been stated in the programme of the conference, I would like to introduce one personality to the participants of this top level forum, the personality that had an enormous influence on Leo Tolstoy’s spiritual …

Prof. Jayasekara J.S.K., PhD, Journalism, Grand PhD INTRODUCTON Then known as Ceylon, lying in the Indian Ocean, separated from the peninsular India by Palk Strait, also known as Granary in the East and Pearl in the Indian Ocean, is none other than my motherland, SRI LANKA. This island was once under the Portuguese, Dutch and …