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Deloraine Brohier rises early to participate in an ancient Hindu ritual. Suresh de Silva The entrance to Kataragama. Pilgrims wending their way to the Kataragama shrine increased in numbers as...

Barfly The bar counter at the Meridien is good for gathering with friends There's good news for the dedicated drinker in Colombo. With a little planning, reduced-cost drink can be...

Iris Manampery Masked dancers join with gay abandon. On the way down from Colombo to Galle is the village of Totagama where once dwelt the erudite poet monk, Totagamuve Sri...

On her travels in the Hill Country Florence Ratwatte discovers... A drive down a sleepy country road bordered by terraced rice fields, pineapple plots and tobacco plantations leads to an...

Photos: Suresh de Silva Six months labour of the potter is one stroke to the man with a cudgel. Earthenware pots and vessels are still used in great quantities in...

Maureen Seneviratne does some tree-spotting. One of the most beautiful trees is the venerable tree of patriarchal proportions, especially charming at blossom-time when a wealth of small, red-veined, yellow flowers...

A legend retold by Iris Manampery Anuradhapura is an ancient capital situated 240km north of Colombo. It is a historian's paradise and also a place of veneration to the Buddhists....

Richard Simon The Pizzeria - Inter Continental Like lovers, schizophrenics and mating crustaceans the island of Sri Lanka is definitely moonstruck. It's not just that in a predominantly Buddhist country,...

Maureen Seneviratne Veddahs – descendants of King Vijaya and Kuveni. Scene from a play 'Sinhabahu' (Suresh de Silva) From 500 BC (at least) to 1815 A.D. Sri Lanka was a...

Blend of Indigenous Medical Practices and Modern Science Ishnala Samarasinghe Ayurvedic medicine, that ancient and revered science of healing the sick, may have way to the more sophisticated methods of...