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Story and pix: Mahil Wijesinghe

The lost glory of the KV railway Line
‘Anguru Kaka Wathura Bibi Kolamba Duwana Yakada Yaka’ this is a famous phrase of a popular poem we sang when we were schoolchildren as the trains of that time were mainly steam powered by coal and water, before the diesel train engines were introduced to the Ceylon Government Railway (CGR) then, and now, the Sri Lanka Railway. As proof of the above poem, to date, there is...
27 August, 2017
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A village named karapincha
On hearing the name Karapincha, your mind would undoubtedly conjure up the Karapincha that we use as a flavouring in cooking....
The lost glory of the KV railway Line
‘Anguru Kaka Wathura Bibi Kolamba Duwana Yakada Yaka’ this is a...
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