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Sri Lanka Tea Board sales outlet Source:Dailynews A green revolution comes with curbs on synthetic fertilizers, pesticides: Growers in Sri Lanka are furious at government officials who essentially cut off the supply of fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides in a broad and controversial edict to make tea grown there pristine and ...

Source:Island Geographical factors prepare the agrobase while astrological factors determine the time-frame of our annual Solar Festival. As prominence given to more mundane things has held sway over our annual solar festival, popularly known as ‘aluth avurudda’, (and loosely referred to as the Sinhala-Tamil New Year), most of us little ...

Source:Reddit Every morning, the CEO of a large bank in Manhattan walks to the corner for a shoe shine.  He sits in an armchair, examines the Wall Street Journal and the shoe shiner buffs his shoes to a mirror shine. One morning the shoe shiner asks the CEO: “What do ...

  They say a picture speaks a thousand words. This video, sent in by Max Gerreyn (who else !!?), speaks around ten thousand!!.The reason that I wish to “feature” it on e’Lanka is because I figure that at least 10% of our avid readers (around 2,500), would not even KNOW ...

“MAWKISH HUMOUR”  The reason why Jewish humour is “tops”, as Keith Bennett puts it. Please try it, and see. You will have to agree.           Desmond Kelly.(Editor-in-Chief) e’Lanka.  Well, I reckon it’s safe to say that Yankee humour on a whole is pretty ordinary but then ...

Source:Island I do not knowthe thin reek of blood, the stenchof seared flesh, thecracked irreducible bone; I knowonly the thinner reek of pity,the harsh edge of self-contempt,the ashy guilt of being too old,salaried, safe, and comfortable.I would know their reasons,the rigour of their hot hate, theirterrifying faith. Butthey have said ...