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Dispatches from Sri Lanka

Dispatch 2: Sri Lanka, Revisited 8 January 2005 In January of 1984, two months shy of my 30th bir...

Sri Lanka Jeff Greenwald

Making for the Hills

I remember exclaiming with awe when I woke up in Simla (or Shimla, as it is often spelled and pro...

Myanmar / Indonesia / Sri Lanka Kenneth Champeon

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Renovation work may prove Indian emperor built Nepal monastery

KATHMANDU, Feb 10, 2003 - Ancient artefacts unearthed during renovation work on Nepal's second-ol...

Sri Lanka / Nepal / India AFP/Shusham Shrestha

Dalada Maligawa (Buddha's Tooth Temple) in Kandy

Sights of Sri Lanka

From the warm tropical beaches, fringed with coconut palms and lovely bays, most of Sri Lanka rem...

Sri Lanka Heng Wah

Mercy Corps, handing out toys in Sri Lanka.

Dispatches from Sri Lanka

Dispatch 4: Toy Story 15 January 2005 POTTUVIL, SRI LANKA -- The Sri Lanka offices of Mercy Corps...

Sri Lanka Jeff Greenwald

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Between Realism and Schmaltz: Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost.

In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it anymore. --Ernest Hemingway These p...

Sri Lanka Kenneth Champeon

Sri Lankan master tea maker Malinga Herman Gunaratne (L) shows his exotic 'Kilburn Imperial' tea at his Handuugoda tea plantation in southern Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka's "Kilburn Imperial" tea

* * * Inspired by a French perfumer and egged on by an English aficionado, a Sri Lankan master te...

Sri Lanka AFP/Amal Jayasinghe

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Dispatches from Sri Lanka

Dispatch 5: Toy Story 2 15 January 2005 To a lot of people, the image of relief agencies in devel...

Sri Lanka Jeff Greenwald

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Dispatches from Sri Lanka

Dispatch 7: Tea with the Tigers 22 January 2005 SAMBOOR, SRI LANKA -The pace of work has been rel...

Sri Lanka Jeff Greenwald

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Dispatches from Sri Lanka

Dispatch 6: A Journey Through the East 19 January 2005 TRINCOMALEE - Two weeks in Sri Lanka. Near...

Sri Lanka Jeff Greenwald

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Dispatches from Sri Lanka

Dispatch 3: The Buried Village 11 January 2005 POTTUVIL, SRI LANKA - Aboard the Blackhawk helicop...

Sri Lanka Jeff Greenwald

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Dispatches from Sri Lanka

Dispatch 1: Up in the Air En route to Sri Lanka 6 January 2005 In the Air, BKK to Singapore There...

Sri Lanka Jeff Greenwald

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Sri Lanka is the world's largest tea exporter, hosts the world's largest weekly tea auction and y...

Sri Lanka AFP/Amal Jayasinghe

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Jumbo job: Saving elephants from cops and culls

For captured Indian elephants, police in uniform may be a red rag yet they bond well with their k...

Sri Lanka AFP/Amal Jayasinghe

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