The much anticipated HSBC Galle Literary Festival 2012 will kick off this week. “The line-up is much bigger than it was last year,” says Festival Curator, Shyam Selvadurai, explaining that this year the festival spotlight is on India with sessions featuring multiple authors tied together under the title of Shashi Tharoor’s book – India: From Midnight to Millenium.
It’s Sri Pada season! Now would be the time to pull over a sweater (or two), slip on your trekking shoes and scale the fourth highest mountain in Sri Lanka.