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by Dushyanthi Daniel

Nearly twenty two years have passed since the dangerous bomb which shook the world of the learned exploded, when they heard that the Jaffna Public Library was in flames. The priceless collection of about 97,000 volumes of publications and more than 10,000 rarest collections of the world were just reduced to ashes within a few hours. The impact was so grievous that it is said that one of its founder members, Father T. M. F. Long, former Rector of St. Patrick's College, Jaffna, died of a heart attack on hearing this shocking news.
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