Kulatunga, a Sri Lankan computer engineer, wrote a program in Visual Basic for an English– Sinhala dictionary, using the dictionary entries from the English–Sinhalese Dictionary of Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera. It was initially released on 23 November 2002. The dictionary is distributed as freeware. As of 2016, the dictionary has been downloaded approximately 1,000,000 and ranks 100th most visited sites in Sri Lanka. The dictionary contains over 230,000 definitions including various technical terms.
It is available as computer software, an online website and an android app. Madura English–Sinhala Dictionary ( Sinhala: මධුර ඉංග්රීසි–සිංහල ශබ්දකෝෂය) is a free electronic dictionary service developed by Madura Kulatunga.
