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| Cruel jaws of death |
AVERTISTMENTS |
 Elephants are generally animals on the move, but this bull elephant frequenting Suriyawewa stood lethargically in one place. A team from the Hambantota Wildlife Conservation Unit called in by villagers to check it out, found it showing signs of uneasiness. Soon it collapsed. The wildlife ranger of Hambantota H.M. Abeykoon and veterinary surgeon for the region Dr. Suhada Jayawardena tried giving water to the animal. |
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| Gayathrie
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 Gayathrie Pieris has been a familiar figure on the Sri Lankan music scene since she was a teenager. While still a schoolgirl, she wowed audiences with her soaring voice, effortless musicality and sparkling personality and now belongs to a select group of respected and well-loved Sri Lankan musicians abroad, which includes Rohan and Druvi de Saram, Sujeeva Hapugalle and Rohan de Silva. |
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| Lankan library Down Under |
 A unique library on Sri Lanka, perhaps the only one of its kind overseas, exists in Melbourne, Australia. Begun by Victor Melder in 1968, when he migrated to Australia with the one book he had with him then, it has today over 4, 300 books, 2000 magazines and journals, 25 years of Sunday newspapers and a collection of video and audio tapes all on Sri Lanka. |
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| Bleak times for Pada Yatra |
 Among Sri Lanka’s ancient traditions that yet survive, few are as well known or as poorly understood as that of the Kataragama Pada Yatra. Predating the arrival of all four of Sri Lanka’s major religions, the tradition is an inheritance from the Wanniya-laeto or Veddahs, as Kataragama’s kapurala priest-custodians themselves readily concede. |
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