Buried glory in the East coast

Having passed lush greenery along Wellawaya to Lahugala on the A4 Road a strange landscape accosts you when passing Sengamuwa. About 10 km beyond Pottuvil, on the A4 Road, a stretch of barren paddy field dotted with small houses and herds of white goats and cows lazily grazing could be seen.

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Napoleon Bonarparte meets his Waterloo

When an individual faces a humiliating defeat against an opponent, we often say “He met his Waterloo.” It is an English idiom. What is an idiom? It is a phrase or sentence whose meaning is not clear from the meaning of its individual words and which must be learnt as a whole unit. The English language has many idioms.

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Musings

The queen lies buried in Rockhill estate

Now that the city of Kegalle in Sathara Korale has come into the spotlight as the most recent venue of Lanka’s independence celebrations, it may be not irrelevant to write on one of its most famous citizens who lived some 500-600 years ago. Of course, she did not spend her whole life there.

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