January 22, 2018 · 3:28 am

Animal Ways

a hermit crab at Mirissa

  a copulating pair of Toque Macaque at the Peradeniya Botanical Gardens …. maybe 7-to-8 acts of penetration within the minute…not rape – just a willing partner

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January 21, 2018 · 3:40 pm

Two Reflections on the Galle Literary Fest of 2008

Michael Roberts, on 9th February 2008

ONE: GALLE LIT UP: FROM THE RIGHT FLANK

As a moderator and panelist participating in the Galle Literary Festival held between the 15th and 20th January 2008, my commentary is biased. It is doubly biased. I was born and nourished within the walls of the Fort in Galle, a site that cast a magic spell on the literary fare all and sundry encountered during these heady days.

 with my sister at Girl’s Bathing Place … and as Little bum Mike on the way home

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January 21, 2018 · 2:39 pm

Seth, Vidal et al at the Galle Lit-Fest in 2008

Vikram Seth in demand …

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January 21, 2018 · 2:29 pm

Wedding Bells in Galle Fort

The Galle Fort is apparently seen as an ideal foil for young couples who have tied the knot or are about to do so ….

 January 2018

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January 21, 2018 · 2:22 pm

Galle Fort in Better Light

Images from a Professional: Juliet Coombe

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January 21, 2018 · 10:25 am

Galle Fort awaits the Galle Literary Festival, 2018

SCENES from Early January at Twilight …. an Amateur’s Camera

The Hall de Galle

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January 21, 2018 · 9:41 am

Can Anyone match the Weaver Bird’s Skills?

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January 15, 2018 · 3:19 am

Indians and Aussies gather for a Youth Forum on Democracy

Item in Indian Sun, 14 January 2018 … with title AIYD 2018 to focus on democracy in the age of digital disruption”

Some of India and Australia’s brightest talent and emerging young leaders will converge in New Delhi and Mumbai, this month, for the 2018 Australia India Youth Dialogue (AIYD 2018). The annual dialogue provides a platform for the best and brightest, from both countries, to meet, engage, and harness the vision of youth to collaborate and build enduring partnerships between India and Australia.

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Darshanie Ratnawalli, in Daily Mirror, 11 January 2017 the title runs  “The poor little handicrafts of Laksala”

Alias, an Assistant Merchandising Director, tells me that Laksala is changing. Not for the better. If we are to talk in analogies for the benefit of tourists, he is claiming a slide down the scale from a Tiffany’s to a K-Mart. “I went to the Thummulla outlet today. They are going to shift the exclusive Batik collection to a less prominent place and put some t-shirts in the vacant place,” Alias told me in November.

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January 14, 2018 · 5:40 pm
January 14, 2018 · 5:12 pm

Indo-Lanka Projects and Mangala’s Visit to new Delhi

Editor, News-in-Asia, 14 January 2017, where the title is Lankan Minister discusses implementation of Indian projects in meetings at New Delhi

Lankan Minister discusses implementation of Indian projects in meetings at New Delhi

New Delhi, January 14 (newsin.asia): The Sri Lankan Minister of Finance Mangala Samaraweera on Saturday called on the Minister of External Affairs of India, Sushma Swaraj at the Jawaharlal Nehru Bhawan in New Delhi, and discussed issues relating to development cooperation between the two countries. Samaraweera also called on the Indian Minister of Finance Arun Jaitley and reviewed the present status of Indian aided projects in Sri Lanka. India would like Sri Lanka to speed up the implementation of the many projects which had been approved by the two sides.

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