Facts about Nalanda

Name: Nalanda College

Address: Nalanda College, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Established on: 1st of November, 1925

Established by: Mr. P. de S. Kularathne

Location: Colombo 10, Sri Lanka.

Present Principal: Mr. Ranjith Jayasundara

Motto: "Apadana Sobhini Pagna" (Wisdom Illuminates Character)

School Flag: Two stripes of Maroon with a Silver stripe in middle.

Sports & Other

• Athletic
• Badminton
• Basket Ball
• Base Ball
• Boxing
• Cadet Platoon
• Cadet Band
• Chess
• Cricket
• Foot Ball
• Gymnastic
• Hockey
• Karate
• Wrestling
• Rugby 
• Squash
• Swimming
• Table Tennis
• Tennis
• Volley Ball
• Water Polo
• Wushu

Clubs & Societies

• Adventure Club
• Archery Club
• Aeronautical Society (ගුවන් පියාසර සංගමය)
• Agriculture Society (කෘෂිකර්ම සංගමය)
• Amadyapa Society (අමද්‍යප සංගමය)
• Art Society (කලා සංගමය)
• Astronomical Society (තාරකා විද්‍යා සංගමය)
• Buddhist Association (බෞද්ධ සංගමය) 
• Charithadarsha Society (චරිතාදර්ශ සංගමය)
• Commerce Society (වාණිජ්‍ය සංගමය)
• Communication Unit (ජනසන්නිවේදන ඒකකය)
• Computer Society (පරිගණක සංගමය)
• Dancing Society (නැටුම් සංගමය)
• Dancing Unit (නැටුම් ඒකකය)
• Eastern Music Unit (පෙරදිග සංගීත ඒකකය)
• English Debating Society (ඉංග්‍රීසි විවාද සංගමය)
• English Literary Association (ඉංග්‍රීසි සාහිත්‍ය සංගමය)
• Global Spectrum
• Green Circle
• Health Society (සෞඛ්‍ය සංගමය)
• Interact Club
• Junior Scout Association
• Leo Club
• Life Saving Society (ජීවිතාරක්ෂක සංගමය)
• Photographic Art Society
• Quiz Society
• Road Safety Unit (රථ නියාමක ඒකකය)
• Soukyadana Unit (සෞඛ්‍යදාන ඒකකය)
• Science Society (විද්‍යා සංගමය)
• Senior Scout Association
• Shakespeare Drama Society
• Sinhala Oratory and Debating Society (සිංහල කථික හා විවාද සංගමය)
• Sinhala Literary Association (සිංහල සාහිත්‍ය සංගමය)
• Social Services Association (සමාජ සේවා සංගමය)
• Western Music Association (අපරදිග සංගීත අංශය)
• Wild Life and Environmental Conservation Society (වන ජීවී හා පරිසර සංරක්ෂක සංගමය)

Two Drowning Souls Saved by Nalandians

The Life Saving Society of Nalanda College saved two teenagers lives while bathing off the Mount Lavinia Beach. Life savers were aware of people who gather around the beach everyday.
On July 22nd the two boys named Ruwan Nishantha Ilangakoon and Buddhika Udaya Maduranga were struggling with insubordinate surfs around 12.45 pm Chanuka responded swiftly and swam towards Ruwan for about 200 meters while asking help from Sameera. Ruwan was saved in-noxiously by Chanuka. Meanwhile Sameera Vithanage; the captain of The Life Saving Society was able to save Buddhika who was dragged away by currents in a sea pocket. The two young men were brought ashore safely by accompnying Chamath Degalle and Kasun Jayanatha. The condition of Ruwan was stable but Buddhika was unconscious.
Sameera did not terminate his responsibility by this. He supplied Buddhika with artificial breathing, betwixt Chanuka helped him with artificial heart beat supply. The Junior Life Savers Pavithra Perera and Madusha Guruge were able to control the people gathered around. Their effort was successful and Buddhika came to his consciousness.
Non of the people gathered standed to take in the patient to the hospital. Sameera immeaditaley took Buddhika to Kalubowila hospital with the help of a parent of a Nalanda College student. Buddhika was entered to ICU at Kalubowila. Later on Ruwan informed that Buddhika was fully recovered.
Gamika and Gihantha proudly said that they could save another life/person on 8th July. The Life Saving Society of Nalanda College has saved 615 lives since its establishment in 1981.
Sameera and his fellow Life Savers gratefully commemorated The Principal; Ranjith Jayasundara, the teacher in-charge; Lasal Jayathunga and coach; Roshan Wijesinghe.
They also appreciated the indelible influence of Parents and Old Boys.
"WISDOM ILLUMINATES CHARACTER", by showing the colours of school motto, the Life Saving Society of Nalanda College showed their generosity on giving life to a life.

Welcome to Nalanda College, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Nalanda College, Colombo is a leading boys' school in Sri Lanka which was established in 1925. Since then, it has rewarded great leaders and noble sons to the entire world under great teachers, education and right guidance.

Nalanda College is a highest ranked school in the education field of Sri Lanka. Also Nalanda College is playing huge role in extracurricular activities. College has given time to do extracurricular activities for improve their extra skills.