From Devundera to Dedigama
IT IS DIFFICULT to imagine that Dedigama once had
a paramount ruler and was the administrative capital of the country
in the 14th century. A mile or two to your right from Nelundeniya,
as you drive towards Kandy, there is little evidence today in this
sleepy village of the Sri Vibhutiya this once splendid city is said
to have had, according to the Tisara Sandesaya, the oldest of our
sandesa poems.
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A quick trip to Tangalle
I was in Sri Lanka last week in endless meetings
with our architect, sundry engineers and the new contractor. Those
of you who have been following our slow and painful progress on our
dream house in Tangalle will recall that our original contractor was
a certain Mr Gamarachi.
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Knox, history and flights of fancy
WRITING history must indeed be a challenging
task. Attempting to reconstruct the scenes of days long past,
Historians inevitably fall back on records supposedly maintained by
sources who are not available for verification.
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