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The Golden Jubilee of Sarvodaya

This is with reference to the article that appeared in your esteemed journal of 4.1.2009 and the two responses on 18.01.2009 and 8.02.2009. Wherein the writers of the two responses have disputed the date on which the Sarvodaya celebrated the Golden Jubilee. We expected either leader or someone else whose names appeared in the second response to clarify same, but so far nothing happened.

Shall we take it for granted that Sarvodaya was celebrated on wrong date and Chitra Weerawardana who wrote the original article had mixed up the dates.

All the Best for Sarvodaya!

D.C. Abeysekera, Hikkaduwa


Bee-keeping: Solution to man-elephant conflict

I was watching the “Discovery Channel” on TV recently, when I happened to follow a program on the study of bee-keeping as a method of preventing wild elephants from coming near houses in-forest areas and damaging them. The method shown there was to keep bee-hives near houses threatened by wild elephants.

The bee-hives in boxes are kept under a shade near the houses. These are properly suspended so that they can be shaken by a string attached to them when elephants approach these houses, when the bees get disturbed.

The elephants don’t like the bees, and turn back and run back to the forest. Perhaps these elephants would not return to damage the houses again as they would remember the bad experience.

This method could be tested here to find, whether wild elephants can be made to keep away from houses and farms.

The wax and honey from these bee-hives can provide an additional income to the farmers who keep these bee-hives.

D.C. Edirisinghe, Nugegoda

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