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| Together
from here to there in search of beauty |
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| The butterflies of Sri
Lanka – gorgeously coloured and touchingly fragile
- flit and flutter across the pages of a new book to be
launched on the 14th of this month. The result of a five-year
collaboration between Arittha and Ariesha Wikramanayake,
it offers much more than images and explanations –
instead this book is an experience, taking the reader
along with a father and his young daughter as they explore
the wonders of nature together. |
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| Every
stray dog has its day, but some have it in England |
| A British nurse and her friends lead
a campaign to find homes for Lankan strays |
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| AIDS
Congress to showcase Lanka |
| Surveys indicate that Sri
Lanka has a low prevalence of HIV/AIDS even though the
country has been facing a conflict. "But this should
not make us complacent," Dr. K.A.M. Ariyaratne of
the National STD/AIDS Campaign warns, calling for strengthening
of measures towards prevention and also treatment and
care of those living with HIV. |
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| Travesty
of our place names |
 How
important the proper pronunciation and spelling can be
to a nation’s identity was demonstrated by the French
Government when it prohibited the use of the British word
jet or ‘jetliner’ by the French. The punishment
for transgression was imprisonment. After the law came
into effect a jetliner had to be called ‘le grande
porteur’. The rest of the world may pronounce the
name of their capital city as ‘Paris,’ but
to the French it will always be ‘Paree’. |
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| Surviving
amidst dying men and muddy swamps |
| Bon Schofield was born in Ceylon in
1922 to a Burgher planting family of four boys and two
girls. He attended school at St. Joseph’s College,
Maradana, but left school when he was 17 years old to
start a career as a tea planter with his father’s
up country plantation at Talawakelle. |
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