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Hi-tech teacher at their little fingertips

White and green, they are toy-like and handy, slightly thicker than the school-slates of old. At the touch of a button, attractive lessons with colourful pictures or other educational activity in the form of games, either in Sinhala or Tamil, light up the laptop screen, accompanied by lilting music.

Beware of the ‘alligator’!

You may want to think twice the next time you help yourself to some mukunuwenna mallum, for you might just be serving yourself a toxic alligator weed mallum instead. As menacing as it sounds, alligator weed (Alternanthera philoxeroides) at first glance can be easily mistaken for mukunuwenna, a local favourite.

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