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 The Sri Dalada Maligawa, one of the country’s most sacred sites venerated by millions of Buddhists was attacked by LTTE suicide bombers in 1998. Recently, another of Sri Lanka’s famed world heritage sites faced a suicide attack of sorts. Thousands of suicide warriors attacked visitors at Sigiriya, sacrificing their lives to repulse a potential threat to their ‘castle’; the honeybee colonies hanging on the magnificent rock face. |
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 Debris…..amidst the debris, a clenched fist juts out startlingly encapsulating the devastation of the December 2004 tsunami, in a simple square of bronze while in another heavier work a couple embrace each other, not in sexual intimacy, but with all body lines depicting grief and despair.Seated amidst bronze sculptures lying here and there, a totally relaxed “national treasure” as another well-known artist dubbed him, 82-year-old Tissa Ranasinghe, ........ |
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| Kadirgamar: Outstanding Foreign Minister |
 Lakshman Kadirgamar, who was assassinated at his home in Colombo on Friday evening, had as profound a grasp of the threat posed by terrorist violence as any political leader in the world today. He had known for almost a decade that he was a high-priority target for assassination by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) whose forces control an area around Jaffna in the north of Sri Lanka. While the head of the political wing of the Tigers has denied responsibility, the Sri Lankan government does not accept the denial. |
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| From fried cockroaches to snake meat..... |
 Food culture from country to country is different in style, preparation and presentation. Some love it raw, some hot and spicy and others prefer it cooked.
Indochina – Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia, is where you experience the likes of giant crabs, black shrimps, huge tiger prawns, a variety of pork preparations, raw chicken, half done duck, deep fried grasshoppers, roasted full frogs and fried cockroaches with a full glass of snake blood with spices and sauces to supplement it. |
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