A flair for the exotic
When the Yala wildlife sanctuary in the south of
Sri Lanka was founded by the Game Protection Society (now, Wildlife
and Nature Protection Society) in 1894, the first Game Ranger was H
H Engelbrecht. He was an Afrikaaner and a Boer prisoner of war who
was not returned to South Africa because he refused to swear
allegiance to the British monarchy.
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Encounters
Concertaid XIV, a delight for the young
One could not have expected a better backdrop
than the wondrous chancel of one of lovely Anglican church’s altar
with its medieval architecture, sculptured pillars from Romanticism
to the set of the impressive and tidy altar with its tapering
candles ready for a high-mass.
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Cultural scene
Depiction of civil war in Half of a Yellow Sun
In this week’s column, we would examine how
famed Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie depicted the
Nigeria-Biafra war of 1967-70 in her literary masterpiece Half of a
Yellow Sun.
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