How do we, or should we, talk of incest?: Incest buried deep
underground in denial?
The story of Sinhabahu, a widely acknowledged
legend and critically acclaimed play of the late Professor
Ediriweera Sarachchandra relates the origin of the Sinhala race. The
story goes that Sinhabahu, son of princess Suppadevi and the king of
beasts, the lion, after committing patricide and founding Sinhapura,
takes his sister Sinhasivali as wife.
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WHY Aravinda would have Bill Clinton and Sampras to dinner
Scoring 66 in the semi-final against India at
Calcutta, in the World Cup in 1996, with 110,000 people there,
100,000 locked outside, and an atmosphere of real pressure. In those
circumstances, it was one of my most memorable knocks. Going on to
score an unbeaten 107 in the final against Australia was obviously a
great moment for us all in Sri Lanka.
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A BEAUTY WITH BRAINS
Sushila Gunasekera now Sushila Fernando, has
been associated with beauty, roses and orchids. In sequence, beauty
would come first because of her good looks and the fact that when
she was single and Sushila Perera she was Miss Ceylon in 1961 and
later built her illustrious career around luscious roses and orchids
that earned for her fame as a highly respected horticulturist.
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