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The unstoppable Sir Tom

The world’s most widely recognized and respected living English playwright is concerned about the fate of a Sinhala school play. Playlet, actually – a skit that was stopped even before it could start. The production was to take place in a school not far from where the playwright is relaxing, sipping Ceylon tea. “What happened? Do you know anything?” he asks.

 

Then, their lives were shattered, now, they are forgotten

While Sri Lankans are finally having a respite from the regular carnage that terrorism dealt them for nearly 30 years, for those whose lives were directly affected by the indiscriminate bomb attacks carried out by the LTTE, recovery has been a slow, lonely and arduous journey.


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