The Sunday Times
ISSN: 1391 - 0531
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Vol. 42 - No 09
 
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The day he was born a Scops owl flew into his room and perched on his crib, his parents told him. That was his first link with nature.“Five years later, when I found myself in a boarding school after my parents’ divorce, I started searching for ways to overcome my loneliness. Looking into a raindrop on a leaf, I saw the colours of the rainbow, all of nature around me, and my reflection so perfectly.
 
Little me in big China
China? Why China? Four to eight years there? Good God, that is a mighty long time. “OK so I really don’t mind – China, they say, is an emerging nation so let’s give it a shot,” I said to myself. We arrived at the Baiyun International Airport on December 28, last year at approximately 4.00 in the afternoon. It was chilly and that surprised me – I had no winter clothing with me!
 
Return to reality
I write this in reply to the astrological feature published in this section on July 15. There is absolutely no reason to fear trouble from any motion of the direction of Saturn, about two billion km from the Earth, across an arbitrary constellation boundary, unless you are hypnotized by astrology, to act irrationally. In which case, I hope this article would help, return you to reality.
 
 

Letters to the editor
  Gaping holes in school dental service
  They fought on till they....
  Let us band together in our Motherland
  Saluting cop in the middle of a traffic jam
  Imagine Haddock in Colombo!
 
Appreciations
  Father Glen Fernando
  Timothy Wickremasinghe
   
Poya features
  Man’s purpose is within man
  Haven in Buddha Gaya
   
Features
  Moving forward with courage and help
  Lanka styles Venus’s Wimbledon
  Local girl powers it in Brooklyn
  Painting differently
   
Tribute
  Neelan: Why did LTTE kill him?
   
People and events
  Launch of a translated collection of short stories
   

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