In a cutting-edge newspaper business in Sinhala, the Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka has sought any associated office work and literature from the overall public, asking them to touch an email ID and smartphone amount to investigate the subject “King Ravana and the historical domination of aerial routes now lost”.

When contacted, a legit at the Authority said the mission sought to deliver out with an authoritative narrative approximately King Ravana as “there are numerous testimonies”.

Asked why the Civil Aviation Authority become helming the mission, the legit — asking now no longer to be named — said: “We are the primary aviation regulatory authority in Sri Lanka. Since there are a couple of testimonies through the years approximately Ravana flying aircraft and masking those routes, we need to have a look at this matter.”

While Sri Lanka’s tourism zone promotes the ‘Ramayana trail’ for visitors from India — one in every of Sri Lanka’s most important tourism markets — it’s the epic’s antagonist, King Ravana, that the majority Sinhala-Buddhists hail, like Dravidian event icons in Tamil Nadu, collectively with former Chief Ministers, C.N. Annadurai and M. Karunanidhi did. Both socio-spiritual organizations in Sri Lanka and the kingdom venerate and renowned Ravana as “the courageous king” from the island nation.

While Sri Lanka named its first satellite tv for pc television for pc, released into orbit very last June, ‘Ravana-1’. Addressing a conference civil aviation professionals in Colombo in 2016, then Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation Nimal Siripala de Silva had remarked that while the trendy historic beyond of world aviation commenced with the Wright Brothers, it becomes a common legend in Sri Lanka brave king referred to as Ravana, used a flying device referred to as “Dandu monera” to fly now no longer entirely within the nation, however moreover in the area.