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Dispatches from Sri Lanka

Anonymous — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 17:02:56 +0000

Dispatch 2: Sri Lanka, Revisited 8 January 2005 In January of 1984, two months shy of my 30th birthday, I explored the west coast of Sri Lanka on one of my first travel assignments. My girlfriend Teri...

Making for the Hills

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 04:03:56 +0000

I remember exclaiming with awe when I woke up in Simla (or Shimla, as it is often spelled and pronounced) and stepped out of my room to view the landscape, which I had been unable to see on the...

Renovation work may prove Indian emperor built Nepal monastery

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Feb 2003 23:46:45 +0000

KATHMANDU, Feb 10, 2003 - Ancient artefacts unearthed during renovation work on Nepal's second-oldest Buddhist monastery may prove a long-held popular belief - that the structure was built by the...

Dispatches from Sri Lanka

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 05:06:07 +0000

Dispatch 4: Toy Story 15 January 2005 POTTUVIL, SRI LANKA -- The Sri Lanka offices of Mercy Corps occupy a single room on Dharmapala Mawatha, in a building run by the Academy for Educational...

Sights of Sri Lanka

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Nov 2002 04:37:25 +0000

From the warm tropical beaches, fringed with coconut palms and lovely bays, most of Sri Lanka remains an undiscovered gem in the middle of Indian Ocean . Due to years of fighting fueled by Tamils...

Between Realism and Schmaltz: Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost.

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 06:51:43 +0000

In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it anymore. --Ernest Hemingway These prophetic words of Hemingway's could have formed the epigraph of Michael Ondaatje's most recent novel,...

Sri Lanka's "Kilburn Imperial" tea

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:09:02 +0000

* * * Inspired by a French perfumer and egged on by an English aficionado, a Sri Lankan master tea maker has revived a centuries-old Chinese tradition to make a brew that few but an emperor could...

Dispatches from Sri Lanka

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 01:37:57 +0000

Dispatch 5: Toy Story 2 15 January 2005 To a lot of people, the image of relief agencies in developing countries is the image of giant Toyota Land Cruisers, churning down a dirt road with the windows...

Dispatches from Sri Lanka

Anonymous — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:44:18 +0000

Dispatch 7: Tea with the Tigers 22 January 2005 SAMBOOR, SRI LANKA -The pace of work has been relentless. Don't know if it's because I'm inspired, or because I was starved for inspiration for so long,...

Dispatches from Sri Lanka

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:18:46 +0000

Dispatch 6: A Journey Through the East 19 January 2005 TRINCOMALEE - Two weeks in Sri Lanka. Nearly all of what I've written, even in my journal, has been for publication. Haven't had any time to...

Dispatches from Sri Lanka

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:29:34 +0000

Dispatch 3: The Buried Village 11 January 2005 POTTUVIL, SRI LANKA - Aboard the Blackhawk helicopter, his ears plugged against the roar of the rotors, a US Marine in a flak jacket pencils me a note:...

Dispatches from Sri Lanka

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 16:23:24 +0000

Dispatch 1: Up in the Air En route to Sri Lanka 6 January 2005 In the Air, BKK to Singapore There is no predicting, at this point, what I will find, or even what I'll write. This whole trip came...

Sri Lankan Tea

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Aug 2003 08:14:26 +0000

Sri Lanka is the world's largest tea exporter, hosts the world's largest weekly tea auction and yet it is struggling to earn a name as an upmarket tea maker and become what France is to wine. After a...

Jumbo job: Saving elephants from cops and culls

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 07:43:37 +0000

For captured Indian elephants, police in uniform may be a red rag yet they bond well with their keepers; but in the jungle the battle for space between pachyderms and humans is becoming wilder and...