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Two children are dead – a girl and a boy, both about eight years old, both living in the same area and both attending the same school. What went wrong in the Modera-Mattakkuliya area that two children had to die in the first month of 2009, soon after they went into a new class but long before they could thumb through their new books or wear the new clothes their parents had bought for them?

Villa with a sense of tradition and fun

"How about recommending a resort that's not been turned into a boutique hotel with upmarket prices?" a friend asked me recently. She felt that in my enthusiasm to report on glamorous, renovated properties I had lost sight of the kind of retreats that Sri Lankans and regular visitors adore.

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