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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...

Nija If you wish to capture memorable moments of an idyllic holiday on a tropical isle and place it in the permanency of your living room-a wall hanging would be...

Johann Raymond The breeze whips in from the sea. All about me there are people. People drawn to the place for their 'constitutional' even­ing walk. The younger lot, dressed in...

D.B. Warnasiri Throughout the ages the picture of the artist has not changed. He lives in misery, in agony - rarely attaining ecstasy - a picture more true today in...

Carol Aloysius From time immemorial, the spices of the tropics have beckoned travellers and trad­ers from distant lands and lured the adventurous explorer in search of the elusive pot of...

Muditha Dias 'Whateverwe givewe haveand whateverwe havewe lose' Whatever we give we have and whatever we have we lose is the philosophy of Sri Ishwara Sarma, Lecturer in Religion, Philosophy...