Verified reporting on the Automated Fingerprint Identification System, its national implementation and its recognition at the 2015 Manthan Awards in India.
Nikita Mehta’s feature explains the locally developed AFIS, latent-print processing, faster identification and the project’s 2015 Manthan recognition. Photograph by Ramesh Pathania/Mint.
Read and view at Mint →The archive identifies Harsha Wijayawardhana at the Manthan Award Exhibition, including photographs with Chaminda Nawardhan of the Sri Lanka Police fingerprint service.
View the licensed Manthan photographs →Getty photographs are linked rather than copied because reuse requires an editorial licence.
Contemporary reporting and an infographic on the fingerprint-identification capability, database scale and operational results.
Read at the Sunday Times →Coverage of the launch, locally developed algorithms, rapid identification and Harsha’s technical account.
Read at Daily FT →Includes a photograph of Harsha with Minister Sagala Ratnayake, IGP N. K. Illangakoon and SSP Priyantha Jayakody during the expansion of AFIS to 42 police divisions.
Read and view the photograph at Daily FT →Coverage of Theekshana’s development work, fragment identification, matching speed and examiner tools, including comments by Harsha.
Read at Ada Derana →Publisher photographs and graphics are displayed or linked with attribution. Copyright remains with the respective media organisations and photographers.
Aruna consulted Harsha, then Chief Executive Officer of Theekshana Research and Development, for this Sinhala discussion of the practical realities of working from home and the differing requirements of professional fields.
Read at Aruna →Mawbima’s public record identifies Dr. Harsha Wijayawardhana in his capacity as a Director of the Bank of Ceylon during the recognition of the bank’s outstanding branches.
Read at Mawbima →Harsha contributed a recurring weekly series to Rivira, writing in Sinhala across a wide range of fields. This was sustained public scholarship rather than a single press mention: technical, scientific, historical and nationally relevant subjects were interpreted for the newspaper’s general readership.
The former Rivira web archive is not currently indexed under Harsha’s byline. Original printed pages, saved scans and archived links are being sought so that individual articles, dates and titles can be catalogued without guesswork.
Rivira also published a biographical feature on Harsha, recording the person behind the weekly writing and his wider contribution to Sri Lanka’s Internet, computing, language technology, research and public institutions.
Recorded from Harsha’s personal publication history; the original issue is to be attached when recovered.
Mawbima recently carried a biographical account of Harsha. This is distinct from the newspaper’s separately indexed Bank of Ceylon report and should be preserved as an important Sinhala-language account of his life and work.
The current Mawbima search index has not exposed the biography under the tested name variations. The original page, issue or scan will be linked here once identified.
Harsha’s Sinhala-language lectures explain the Sinhala zero, Lith Illakkam, Brahmi numeral inheritance, the Pujavaliya and the continuing “Searching for the Zero” research programme.
View the Sinhala lectures and media archive →The preserved English collection includes ancient and medieval Sinhala numeration, the zero placeholder, large numbers beyond a googol, the Pujavaliya analysis and Linguistic Zero.
Read the English research collection →The searchable public archive currently exposes the verified Aruna interview and Mawbima institutional record. Harsha’s Rivira weekly column and the Rivira and Mawbima biographies are recorded separately because the newspapers’ present indexes do not expose the original pages reliably. They remain identified as archive-recovery priorities, not treated as absent publications.