Building a legacy

Jayalakshmi’s elderly mother and son have got reason to smile

Nuwara Eliya is often called a garden city. But amidst its lush tea-clad hills, plush hotels and flower-filled gardens are many pockets of poor housing, where large families live in deplorable conditions. Many of these homes are makeshift shacks, made of tin sheets or cheap planks, protected by plastic sheets. When it rains, water pours in from all sides and the inhabitants have little protection.

Contents

• Changing faces
• Sex in the city
• Diverse and complex
• Her songs lit up the ugly
• A musical evening of education not entertainment
• Ten days in Ceylon
• Tracing the steps of Christ
• Kala Korner
• Slices of Sri Lankan life
• Don’t let back pain cripple you
• Couch potato syndrome
• Do you have vertigo?
• SARS: Warnings of mutant strains
• Building a legacy
• Hi-tech and sleek look alone won't do
• Little Lavinia from the land of tulips
• Letters to the Editor