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Free
spirit |
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A
young girl sits in a tent in a jungle clearing in the
Maha Oya area, typing on a little portable typewriter.
She listens to the rush of the river and the chatter of
the primitive Veddahs who live here, as she types. It
is the early 1930’s, and any sign of civilisation
is far away from this settlement of Veddahs in the heart
of the wilderness. |
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Autumn
in Tibet |
In
this final part, Nishy Wijewardane reaches alpine Jiuzhaigou
on Sichuan’s northern borders and crosses to western
Sichuan’s “Wild West” Khamding region
to explore timeless Tibetan heritages. |
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Neem
repellent |
Could
‘Formula Zx’ a repellent invented by a Sri
Lankan be the answer to the dangers posed by mosquitoes?
Not a year has passed in recent times without the fear
of mosquitoes gripping the country, what with the dengue
and recent chikungunya outbreaks. |
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Seven
years to the Booker |
Currently,
the best thing about winning the Booker Prize, as Kiran
Desai would have it, is that it brought her here –
to our tiny island in the Indian Ocean. “I anticipated
my affection for Sri Lanka,” she says smiling. As
the sun sinks past the horizon, and a dusky twilight cloaks
Galle Fort, Kiran and I have what can best be described
as a chat; it begins with the promise of ten minutes,
and very quickly stretches to twenty, then half an hour.
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