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[safije]

Third Worlders who obsess over US and EU social issues got their priorities all messed up. Like why are you seething about migrants in the First World when everyone in your country is trying to leave?

[milkbrxxd]

US BROWN GIRLS WERE BORN WARRIORS, THANKS.

[metrostartup]

An open letter to all Patriotic Sri Lankans on the eve of Local Government Elections

An open letter to all Patriotic Sri Lankans on the eve of Local Government Elections.Dr Sudath Gunasekara 18.1.2018. This is the most important and critical question every Sri Lankan, especially every Sinhala man and woman old and young and even the unborn who loves his/her country should pause to their innermost soul in this most critical hour of this nationIt is true this election is not a…

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[myfunkybdaytv]

Sri Lankans anxious, take deep breaths as county awaits new president

Sri Lankans anxious, take deep breaths as county awaits new president

Sri Lankans anxious, take deep breaths as county awaits new president (more…)

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[indizombie]

I have beloved memories of biting through the crispy exterior, the soft, gritty centre tasting of well-seasoned lentils with the delectable flavour of chopped onions, curry leaves and savoury prawns fried in their shells. It's incredible to think that vade, in its original form, crossed an ocean with an immigrant community to arrive on this tiny island far from home. No one could have known that this spicy snack would go on to unite Sri Lankans across ethnicities, religion and class as they sit with friends to watch the sun go down. If this tasty snack can't survive the economic crisis, it is not merely a street food and livelihoods that are threatened, but two centuries of history will be lost alongside it.

Demi Perera, ‘Isso vade: The spicy snack that unites Sri Lanka’, BBC

[cisrjmu]

How landmines made this Sri Lankan lagoon an avian paradise

But once it's demined, it may be developed. Can one man's ecotourism plan protect it for the birds?

On a recent Sunday morning on Sri Lanka’s Jaffna Peninsula, Packiyanathan Rajkumar was standing on a swampy dirt road that cuts across the Thondamanaru Lagoon. He often visits this site to research the many bird species here. But they’re species he’s never fully studied—because wading into the water could end his life in a literal flash.

Every few minutes, after pulling up his black pant legs to slog through yet another enormous puddle, the ornithologist would stop, point, and say, “Look at this,” in awe of his surroundings. Mangroves grew tall and thick across a sheet of lightly rippling water. White cranes fluttered under a sky washed pale blue by the rising sun. Aside from the occasional buzz of a distant motorbike, everything was quiet.

This road once served as part of the border between the Sri Lankan military and separatists known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, with whom the government fought a ruthless civil war from 1983 to 2009. Both sides laid mines in the shallow lagoons of the country’s Northern Province, and though much of the terrain has been cleared, a large swath of the Thondamanaru Lagoon remains littered with explosives. For decades, few people have ventured here aside from a handful of fishermen who, in search of tilapia, drift onto the water in paddleboats.

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