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Traditional dress
Sri Lanka does not acknowledge any national dress since there are three major communities and a few minor communities. Commonly men’s traditional dress is the sarong/dhoti and women’s traditional dress is the sari.
Women normally wear the sari or the half sari. Half sari is cloth and jacket with a frill around shoulders.
Men normally wear the sarong and shirt. Some men wear long sleeved shirt with trousers.
At important occasions people wear white clothes. Sri Lanka and India have similar climates. Therefore, people in both countries wear similar clothing.
Many women wear cloth and jacket. We see some people very often at important occasions wearing western clothing.
Most politicians wear traditional clothes.
This is very good. They must set an example specially to the young generation. We must respect traditional things as much as possible. Our traditional dresses are simple and cheap.
So we expect our leaders to set an example by wearing traditional clothing.
S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, Philip Gunawardena and J.R.Jayewardene wore traditional clothing. We should honour them for setting an example for others.
Let us try to wear traditional clothing at least on special occasions.
D. Weeratunga
Nugegoda.
TV subscribers mistreated
Television viewers usually agree with a Television service provider (the Sri Lankan company) for the Sri Lankan company to provide such TV viewers with a Television package, in return for the payment by the TV viewers of an agreed monthly subscription plus taxes.
The Television package comprises a number of TV channels, which beam several programs. The TV channels are said to be provided to the Sri Lankan company by a Television content provider.
On this basis, TV viewers are entitled to, and in fact, continuously watch certain specific programs, for periods of time, under the agreement mentioned earlier with the Sri Lankan company and pay to it, in return, the agreed monthly subscription plus taxes.
At this juncture, the content providing company, withdraws certain programs (which were previously available to TV viewers on the agreed TV package aforesaid) and telecast such programs only on a separate channel (which is not available to TV viewers on the agreed TV package aforesaid), thus depriving such TV viewers of watching those programs, which they were entitled to and watching previously, on their existing agreement with the Sri Lankan company, and compels such TV viewers to activate the separate channel on which such programs are then beamed, by paying an additional monthly subscription plus taxes thereon.
No amount of complaints, in this regard, seem to be of any avail, as the obligations and services expected from the Sri Lankan company by its customers are not forthcoming, in view of their claim that it is helpless and has to comply with the demands of the company.
Also, readers would be able to provide other instances in this regard, such as, TV viewers being deprived of watching the programs that they are entitled to watch and for which they pay a monthly subscription, as a result of the Sri Lankan company being unable to prevent such deprivation; or, that many of the programs made available to the TV viewers are repeats of old programs, etc.
- HTS
Colombo.