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Wild Life Reserves of Sri Lanka

Marcel Bandaranaike, courtesy of The Aloysian, April and August issues, 2014 Mihintale, in the ancient kingdom of Anuradhapura located in the North Central province of Sri Lanka is said to be the world’s first recorded (247 BC) wild life & … Continue reading

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Meaningful Violence: Reflections on the Dynamic of Human Sacrifice

William Harman, reprint from Soundings An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. LXXXIII, No. 1, Spring 2000, pp. 119-35…. Note year of presentation, viz. 2000….. so that, clearly, this essay is not informed by any writings on the topic after 1999. See Addendum at end. … Continue reading

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Around Galle and the southern coast: a magical family holiday

John Gimlette, courtesy of the Daily Telegraph and  http://www.dailynews.lk/?q=features/sri-lanka-family-holidays-amazing-mr-elephant where the title reads “Sri Lanka family holidays: the amazing Mr Elephant” If you were to design a child’s perfect holiday, it would involve beaches, a castle, a little magic, something gruesome … Continue reading

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Raj Rajaratnam as a Kinda’ Tiger

David Rose in Vanity Fair at http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2011/09/tamil-and-raj-201109… [and see additons at end re sentencing]. Pic courtesy of google Earlier this year, Raj Rajaratnam, founder of the Galleon Group hedge fund, was convicted of conspiracy and securities fraud in one of the … Continue reading

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Magnificently lost on a bike in Sri Lanka

Iain Mackay This track definitely wasn’t on the map, and it certainly wasn’t on the  Google earth print-out I was using to navigate. I was twenty miles north east of Unawatuna in the south of Sri Lanka and it was … Continue reading

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A Foreign Tour Agent’s Balmy View of Sri Lanka

Keith Austin ** A little more than three years ago, Sri Lanka was a basket case, and had been for more than a quarter of a century, as civil war ravaged the country. Sri Lankan-born novelist Michael Ondaatje, in his … Continue reading

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