Welcome to Sri Lanka again, Bhante. Thank you. Last year I came briefly after being away for nearly 20 years. Now I’m ...

They look close to dead,” says Sri Lankan farmer Shantha Dissanayake looking at his pruned mango trees. “They looked close to dead,” says Sri Lankan farmer, Shantha Dissanayake, about his mango trees.

So, I made my own rough translation of that sketch summary for the benefit of my readers here: The world’s oldest indigenous nation known as Sihela composed of the three main tribes Yakkha, Deva, and ...