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A monthly magazine (A5 size, currently 72 pages) which provides indepth information on Sri Lanka including a destination guide, hotel and restaurant reviews, activity and adventure articles, heritage, nature, book reviews, airline and railway schedules, embassy contact information and directory listing of hotels, restaurants, and other travel related services. Delivered by Airmail or Email every month for 12 months.
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Editor's Note
Instead of featuring a destination, travelsrilanka
this month looks at a people of African origin, the
Kaffirs, brought to Ceylon to serve as slaves and
soldiers by the Portuguese. In those days they had
a fearsome reputation: the Portuguese commander
at Malwana ordered a local person to be handed
over to the Kaffir soldiers, who cut him up ion front
of his wife and children and shared him among
them for food. Nowadays, however, the Kaffirs live
peaceably in the Puttalam district.
This issue has an accidental literary component, and
a diverse one at that. The environmental aspect is
represented by a review of conservationist Rohan
Pethiyagoda’s to me, The History of Biodiversity
Exploration in Sri Lanka, while lexicology makes an
appearance with the definition of three exotic words
from Sri Lankan English, jingbang, kottu, and lakh,
mostly based on Micheal Meyler’s Dictionary of Sri
Lankan English. There’s an interview with novelist
Shyam Selvadurai of Funny Boy fame, who shifted
from Colombo to Canada to pursue his incisive
writing on Sri Lanka, and with Alexander McCall
Smith of Botswana, creator of Precious Mamotswe
and her No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, (Tears of the
Giraffe, The Kalahari Typing School for Men, etc.)
Lastly, there’s the retelling of a medieval Venetian
tale, The Three Princes of Serendip, which induced
Horace Walpole to coin the word serendipity.
That‘s not all, either, for there’s a review of a
photo-collection by Sri Lanka’s, Dominic Sansoni,
called Colour. It’s a photo-collection, true – and a
magnificent one at that – yet it contains remarkable
literary content in an introduction by Richard
Simon, one of Sri Lanka’s most incisive writers.
Richard Boyle
Editor
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