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Dear Anu
ReplyDeleteJust read your shocked response to the loudspeaker, bathroom tiles, etc, etc at the so-called "ancient site of Vijithapura".
Reminds me of our shuddering reaction when similarly assaulted by a loudspeaker on a rock at Kirinde in the 1970s.
An idyllic place by the sea, inhabited by a community of Ja (i think) people(we have photographs of a beautiful girl child who befriended us that day,&, later, ones of her once she had become a mother, carrying her child on her hip), was being (re?) appropriated by "Buddhists",
loudly regaling apparent donors to the reconstruction of the "past".
Over time, another people with a different religion had grown into the place.
I dread to think what the "re-" appropriation has brought about...
high up on a rock overlooking what was a peaceful community with a different faith.
Manel Fonseka