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ISSN: 1391 - 0531
Sunday May 11, 2008
Vol. 42 - No 50
 
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Sowing a passion AVERTISTMENTS
In our current pre-occupation with rice shortages and soaring prices, many have forgotten that there was a time when we partook of a different kind of rice for different events like births, and celebrations, toil and sickness. Up until a few decades ago research indicates that Sri Lankan tables hosted nearly 350 different varieties of rice; going even further back, estimates range as high as 3000 varieties.
 
SOS plan for K'gala
Popular actor Ravindra Randeniya is about to light the traditional oil lamp at a heavily-attended ceremony. Amidst the smiling people, he suddenly clutches his chest and falls. While the adults look on in stunned inactivity, schoolchildren rush forward from the audience and one administers mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, shouting for someone to call 110.
 
The Butcher of Matale
Finding a grave-site in the yellowed pages of the old register at the Mahaiyawa Cemetery Office, in Kandy District, proved easier than finding the real thing.The cemetery office curator Sarath spent close to two months looking for a certain Albert Watson’s grave, and when he did, it was quite by accident: an ordinary-looking grave with a simple granite cross in the Anglican section of the old Mahaiyawa Cemetery.
 

Letters to the editor
  English can be that link for peaceful co-existence
  Negambo residents desperate for proper water supply
  To Mother, Queen of my heart
  Taking issue on certain medical points
 
Appreciations
  S. Kulasiri W. (“Bucki”) Dias
  Rehan De Silva
  Premnath Moraes
   
Features
  Sowing a passion
  Those crucial moments
  The healing power of Ayurveda
  Who was Karl Kasmann?
  Rice rituals going back to ancient days
  The Butcher of Matale
  That elusive Atlantis
   
Tribute
  He brought a unique touch to the Sinhala silver screen - P.K.D. Seneviratne
   
Environment
  When various feathered ambassadors flock here
   
Books
  Ridi Vihare – The Flowering of Kandyan Art - By SinhaRaja Tammita
  Eternal Truth is One - By Jeya Thangakone
   
Arts
  Ganesh in all his glory
  Rohan back with "Back in Time"
  An ambitious programme executed very well
   
People and events
  A roaring half-century of community service
  Habitat houses for tsunami survivors
  Art of Living programme
  Jayawardenepura Uni. and Ernst & Young in new partnership
  Lecture by Dr. Jeffrey Lang
   

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