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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
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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