Part 2 Part 1 at this linkMunchi is a small stray cow who was running around Salawatte injured and frightened for a number of months, with no one able to catch her to medicate her. Citizens had called vets, govt departments, the police, no one had helped. With the help of village cow-handlers, two working housewives from Wellampitiya managed to ...
Dear Santa, Firstly, I would like to thank you for visiting us once a year and giving us presents. That's really sweet of you. In all my early letters, I have asked for things like "elimination of pollution" and "increase of moral values in mankind" and "better treatment towards animals and women" but I think none of it has happened. Men, women, children, ...
Escape to Karandulena C Gadiewasam /Pix by Nalaka Priyadharshana What do you find relaxing and healing to the soul? Some young people try chatting, gaming, watching television or even getting wasted, but to one young accountant, Nalaka Priyadharshana, who works at a busy local non profit organization, a truly healing escape is losing himself in the wilderness, at ...
Love your mother tongue & respect the other ones! Last month I visited Jaffna for the first time in my life, and wow what a lovely adventure! I loved the different colours, the different clothes and the sights and fantastic vegetarian cooking, Ive hardly any words to describe how thrilled I was by this land that was so different and yet, ...
This little brown cow was given in fulfilment of a vow to a local Hindu soothsayer, protected by Buddhists, rescued by Muslims and saved this Christmas. On 20th December a social media SOS went out through the Animal SOS Facebook page about a little skinny brown cow running loose in Salawatte, a marshy area in Wellampitiya, who had a terrible ...
(these photos are merely representative, but closely representative actually)So last MOnday I struggled to my halfway halt and had to embark a bus at about 7pm to get home. It was the wrong bus and would only get me half way there but it was late so I was desperate. I sat next to a dear elderly lady of, perhaps ...
When I met my adorable mother in law Mrs Sesi Paulis she was about 70 and I was 19 so actually more than a mother in law, she seemed like a grandma to me too which was wonderful since I didn't have one of my own. She was a very graceful and elegant figure in usually light blue sarees with ...
Cats have been with us for thousands of years and ever since the Ancient Egyptians actually started worshipping them they've developed major attitudes as well! No wonder then that Hollywood (and Disneyworld of course) find them movie star material and feature full length flicks on the exploits of these suave, svelte and saucy supurr-stars…Puss in Boots: has been a source ...
● Legendary "Milk for Colombo" not so good for health after all, says CRaP report● Gamata Kakiri movement grows following launch Al Juhara/Colombo:Hard-hitting Colombo based think-tank the Centre for Regional Alternative Proposals (CR-P) recently issued a timely and voluminous piece of ground-breaking research on the subject of Human Satisfaction in Rural Sri Lanka in the backdrop of "kakiri" consumption statistics, ...
<Oi|Oj>=δij “Call the police- right now-we have to clear this up- he attacked me-the bastard- you saw it- it was self defense-help Gerard!” Over the bloodied corpse of a yellow skinned Unknown Man, Gerard stared in horror at his graceful coffee skinned wife Samantha, horror not at the man he had just killed with his bare hands and a ...
-unsociabAl Yesterday, friends, was one of those days. I was rained on, shat upon (by a crow) almost had about two and a half road accidents and had my lunch breach into my handbag, karola hodi and all. It was bad. You could say it held a series of irritating little incidents for a working woman and certainly they are ...
Not bad no, I finally got my mugh in the paper, after about 5 years of writing articles Mom was like " haarney dad, look will you, its someone just like our duwa" and then dad goes " hrrrmpph, what are you talking it IS her...read the name, will you..." one of those days that make it all seem worthwhile :-)
There is a beautiful stretch of country road, from Hanwalla to Seethawaka, in Sri Lanka as you head for cool Avisawella from Colombo . Apart from the impossibly green paddy fields and divine river bathing spots, Seethawaka is also a land of rather gory Sinhala legend. The town Hanwalla itself has its name from "place of drying skins" and its ...
I dont have a degree in Communications. Neither does my daughter Nadeesha. But we have been published for a number of years in leading newspapers, written two columns and been co- authors of a book, not to mention co founders of popular online forums with thousands of members. My writing has shamed a big company into doing the right thing. ...
And so by strange and wonderful coincidence the two sweetest guys in my life were born on the same day….although, eighteen years apart. In families I have heard that this happens quite often but no one can really explain , how out of three hundred and sixty five to chose from, my tiny son decided to take his first ...
- sometimes – because of a name, lives touch. Because of a name, lives connected in strange ways. What's in a name, you may ask? Ever since I divorced and changed my name at roughly the same time Im prepared to admit there was some effect definitely. Underworld criminals probably swear by their aliases and their lives depend on ...
image aptly titled "our packages" from chandrapanagoda.lk I didn't know till recently how much a coffin costs in Sri Lanka, it hasn't been that high in my "need to know" list. But this year I found out that it can be anything from 20,000 to 400,000 LKR.,and at each end of the spectrum the damn things look the same! ...
I must say I have lost the ability to work well under pressure. Frankly I just crack up and start screaming and keening pathetically. Its a drag on my family the two or three individuals that I do have left. It makes me wonder what happened to the quiet laid back person I was. I was happy at one time. In ...
