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Maureen Seneviratne Torch spinners like this lead the way at the Kandy Perahera. Photo: Gamini Jayasinghe  The Kandyan dancer from Sri Lanka is an im­age familiar throughout the world. His...

Kalpana Isaac Historically masks were used in rituals to exorcise villagers' fears and illnesses. Even today, patients who require psychiatric therapy more often than not approach the Kattadiyas who dance...

D F Shopper I had never heard that Colombo had much of a reputation for duty-free shopping; instead, Sri Lanka represented to me an ideal destination for a holiday on pristine...

Maureen Seneviratne A tourist once proudly claimed that he had received a letter from home in Europe merely addressed to him by name at the postal address "Hikkaduwa" Yet Hikkaduwa...

Anne Outwater People have been diving in Sri Lanka since at least 1864, when Eugene De Ransonnet, the Viennese painter and naturalist, sketched the coral banks outside Galle in a...

Hikkaduwa has long been a haven for holiday­ makers irresistably drawn from all over the world to the warmth and beauty of the sunny beaches of Sri Lanka's southwest coast....

More than half a century ago a 9-year-o/d boy came· with his family to settle in a village in Sri Lanka. Today, at the age of 66, Mr. A. Y....

Virginia Diehl Wondering what you can take back home-either as a gift for family and friends or for yourself-that is reminiscent of your stay in Sri Lanka, that won't weigh...

Rodney Jonklaas No one who has visited Sri Lanka can forget our rice and curry. Rice is the staple; curries of every sort serve to provide the other necessary ingredients...

Some call them stereotyped, to others they have a rustic appeal. Critics notwithstanding, Dumbara mats have of late rustled their way into any mats have of late rustled their way...