Train for Gampaha at Maradana Railway Station in Colombo
Rest easy. This was some time back during a railway strike !
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Thuppahi's Blog · This web site presents the interventions of MICHAEL ROBERTS in the public realm with reference to Sri Lankan political affairs. It will embrace the politics of cricket as well. ROBERTS was educated at St. Aloysius College in Galle and the universities of Peradeniya and Oxford. He taught History at Peradeniya University and Anthropology at Adelaide university. He is now retired and lives in Adelaide.
No wonder. Thought we too are becoming like in Bombay, Bangladesh &c.