The queen gave her consent to the king’s idea of changing his religion. When the king informed the Nilames of the palace about this wish, they too had nothing to say against it. It soon became known in the country that King Dharmapala was going to be a Catholic. The Catholic priests were of course very happy over this.
The second session of ‘Once upon a book’ storytime and drama workshop for
children organized by Cinnamon Grand was held at Nuga Gama, ‘the village in the city,’ last week. Leading author and Professor in English at the University of Colombo Neluka Silva, read from the book ‘Milk Rice’.