A Dry Zone green oasis
 

SISIRA Kumara and his wife sit together in a tiny room in their brick house and sort out big onions, grade and pack them in bags of two different colours - the red bag for the Dambulla market and the white bag for Colombo. Sisira and a group of other villagers of Poowarasankulama, a tiny hamlet in Anuradhapura district, have harvested a substantial yield of big onions this season.

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Political Stage:

Of real polls and SMS polls
 

WITH the candidates off the starters blocks and the campaign proper now in full swing following nominations, the week that ended saw many dramatic twists and turns in a Presidential race which poll watchers say is too close to call. The campaign heat has reached such a degree that already State and private TV channels are conducting their own opinion polls displaying the results on their screens.

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