An interesting theory - yet sadly lacking acknowledgement of colonialisms other than the ones within your scope.
In fact much of human history's colonialisms have not happened towards the equator, but horizontally across the globe, or even north- or southbound away from what you have so beautifully coined as the sun territories.
Examples, to name just a few:
* Russia's colonialism in Siberia, almost completely obliterating indigenous cultures in the northern part of Eurasia.
* Spain's colonialism into Northwest Europe, all the way up to Antwerp, with not just strangling sieges and complete military occupations, but with an inquisition (religious police) worthy of the most atrocious "religious wars" you will ever come across.
* South-Indian Chola imperialist colonialism, first to the north and the west exterminating the Pala and Chalukya kindgoms, then moving into Malaya and all the way into Indonesia, leading to all but the complete dissolution of the Srivijayan mandala.
* And of course the sheer colonization of the Americas by a cabal of European intruders, stealing land and settling as far to the north as Ellesmere Island (the so-called "Queen Elizabeth Islands") as close as 820 km from the North Pole).
Generally, I love your articles and your theories are highly entertaining (and often radiating with insights and intellectual wit) - but your rather narrow-minded use of the word "Empire" is highly selective, and emotional, and therefore rather weak. Even Sri Lankan history is for a large part the result of Ashokan imperialism and colonization - and that's if you discount the story of the Ramayan, where no efforts are spared to frame Lanka as no less than an Axis of Evil, on account of which it is brutally conquered by Ram and his hordes rampaging through the capital.
But this you might discount as stories and myths. What stays is the question, by what right has anyone ever stolen and settled on the lands of the Wanniyalaeto?
Wouldn't it serve you better if you used your role as an influencer to speak with a more restrained voice? Laying bare the nasty strands of human history is hard enough for the benevolent among us to take. But do we really need to bear your narrowing down your brilliant story to a simple, rather childish dualism?
