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AVERTISTMENTS |
 The examinations were over. It was a break from the tedious studying, exams, hospital-visits cycle. Groups of four got together, boarded the Colombo Medical Faculty’s bus and headed for the BMICH to see for themselves how and where they should be putting up their stalls for the medical exhibition that was scheduled to be held in March. |
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| Dhamma retreats Down Under |
 Not often does a Buddhist monk gets invited to a wedding. It is a rare happening. When Venerable Kovida of the Katoomba forest hermitage in Sydney received an invitation to a wedding, he was a little puzzled. “What am I expected to do,” he wondered. “We want you to come and chant ‘pirith’ and bless the couple,” he was told. |
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| Helping Pandiruppu |
 Vidurshani, 12, tries hard to hold back the tears when she speaks of that awful morning when the sea erupted in anger. The black waters churned around her and her little brother and sister as their father lifted them to safety atop a garden wall. The next terrible wave demolished the wall, and never again did she see her father, or brother, or little sister alive. |
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| Seeing red |
 Travelling around Sri Lanka, her keen eye picks out special scenes which are jotted in a sketchbook that goes wherever she goes.
The rough pencil sketches, complete with footnotes added for further detail, are soon converted into strokes of vibrant colour, capturing the essence of the scenes. |
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