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Churches of Colombo

A. Felician Fernando Dominating the geographical scene in the city of Colombo are these hillocks in the northern part of the metropolis and atop these hillocks are three Christian places...

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Marriage Customs

Exchanging Vows Sri Lankan Style Maureen Seneviratne The mosaic which is Sri Lankan society is nowhere more evident than when a wedding takes place. Among all ethnic groups in the...

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Staying Fit in the City

Fred Holmes Beep-beep, beep-beep...my implacable alarm clock gently but firmly penetrates the fog that envelopes my brain at 5.30am until I can ignore it no longer. Do I really have...

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The Evening Elephant Circus

Arjuna Weerasuriya The time was quarter past five in the evening. Fathers, mothers, children, grandparents, locals and foreigners alike formed a motley crowd that filled the middle-sized arena. The tinkling...

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Your Signs in the Stars

Christine Jayasinghe Star-crossed lovers in Sri Lanka are less likely to be plagued by a Montague and Capulet style family vendetta than by actually having their stars at cross purposes....

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Bronzes from Polonnaruwa

Maureen Seneviratne Discovered by the then Archaeological Commissioner, H. C. P. Bell, in 1907 and 1908, the Polonnaruwa Bronzes of Sri Lanka are among the most magnificent of their kind...

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