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| Empire making was hard labour |
AVERTISTMENTS |
 A sheer rock face with borings or holes, a stark reminder of times gone by when hard labour was extracted from human beings.
Seeing the bustling activity in a large area scattered with plots sporting pathola and other vegetables, carpentry and coir workshops, smithy, weaving centre with clacking handloom.... |
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| A new name,
a new look |
 Some masked faces, many bald heads…….all beautiful children. A 12-year-old, sitting up on a bed, is poring over a colourful picture book with two ducks and painstakingly pasting tiny rolled up pieces of paper on a larger duck drawn on Bristol board. A floor below, going round and round on a bicycle in a large room with brightly-coloured walls, is a small child. A couple more bicycles are parked in a corner. |
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| The angel of the poor - Tribute |
 In my life, I had two treasured friends who were much older than me. One was the late Rev. Fr. Marceline Jayakody, who had an impact on giving a poetic flourish to my Sinhala. I have never studied under him formally. At St. Joseph’s College, Maradana, he was my friendly elder to whom I would go with poems that I occasionally wrote. With poetic ease, he advised and changed a couple of words here or there and made my language look and sound much better. When he died, a part of me died. |
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| On the road again |
 It was an area once occupied by the LTTE. Caught in the crossfire, its people were displaced. But they have now returned, eager to begin a new life.
Obviously, this is no easy task. And they need all the help they can get.
With this in mind, Colombo’s favourite country music concert- Country Roads will make its 16th journey towards Vellavelli in Batticaloa to reach out to the 14,000 children residing in this area. |
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