Helani Samarasinghe

 One day  I was on my way home from my  car, when it was a very dark night and it was raining hard. while I was driving , a girl stopped in my car and asked me if I could give her a lift .It was raining heavily at the time so I gave her lift. She lived in a house on a hilltop . I parked the car in front of her house. Then i looked in the back of the car to see if she was getting out of the car. She was sleeping in the vehicle at the time. So I went to the door of the house she had previously shown to me and knocked on the door. I knocked on the door a few times and then an elderly grandmother came and opened the door . I told her " I gave your daughter a lift. She is sleeping in the car so you can take her home if you can." At that moment she laughed terribly. Then she told me that her daughter had died in a car accident a few years earlier. I ran to my car as fast I could and checked to see if she was in the car. Ohhhh my god she was not in the car. I gave the lift to a ...

 KALUHAMY AND THE BEGGAR  Once upon a time there lived a Gama -rala and his wife who had daughter by name of Kaluhamy. They loved her dearly, for she was the only child they had. But unfortunately she died at an early age and this saddened the parents very much. Not long after this sad event there came a very lean beggar to the house when the Gama-rala was out in the field. Seeing the miserable state of the beggar, the sorrowing mother of Kaluhamy took pity on him and inquired how he had got so lean. The beggar replied " E-lova gihin me-lova ava" ( I have just returned from the other world ) .He meant of ourse that he had been very, very ill recently and had just escaped death. But the foolish woman thought that he had really gone to the other world, and asked him if he had not seen her doughter, Kaluhamy, there . Seeing that the woman was a very foolish person, the beggar gave a cunning answer. He said " Of course, I know Kaluhamy there. In fact I who married her"....

  Sri Lanka is our island home .It lies in the Indian Ocean to the south of India. It is 432 kilometers from north to south, and 224 kilometers from east to west. Its total area is 65,610 square kilometers, and its population in 2021 is  21,539,347 as of Sunday, November 28. The central part of Sri Lanka is hilly and is called the Hill Country, the coastal parts are plains and called the Low Country. Many rivers take their rise from the central hills and flow to the sea through the coastal plains. The longest river is Mahaweli-ganga the highest mountain is Pidurutalagala. The Hill Country gas a delightful climate and Nuwara Eliya and Bandarawela are considered to be healthy places. Many people go there at certain seasons to recoup their health. The Low Country in the south and west is worm and wet, but the northern and eastern plains are warm and dry. Tea and rubber grow on the hills; coconuts and Paddy grow on the plains. We export tea, rubber and coconut products to foreign ...

 ABERDEEN FALLS It is simply 98m high and seems like falling down to earth from the sky.White water coming down from 300+ feet height spreading mist everywhere. This picturesque waterfall on the Kehelgamu oya is Aberdeen falls which belongs to Ambatale Pradeshia Saba and situated in Nuwara eliya district. Myself, Hansani, Dinesha, Nethmi and Ann  went to Aberdeen falls recently to enjoy the scenic beauty and the serenity of nature. The owner of the 'Mystic falls Bunglow' where we seeked for accommodation arranged a terrific boat ride into the falling water of Aberdeen falls. Once we were underneath the fall we feel like the chilly waters are pouring down to earth from the milky way. We had to climb down through a forestry area for a half kilometer to reach the majestic water fall. A gang of youngster were having a bath when we reach there. Our guide said that this green colour water pool can be lethal to visitors who often consume liquor before getting down in the water. We sp...

  "  රසෝඝය '18  " organized by atrs association of mahamaya girls' collage the year 2018 in an immortal alms among my memories.     all the work on the art day was entrusted to the members of the A/L aesthetics class of the school. We have been practicing for art day about two months. We were getting ready for a beautiful art day themed on the Kandyan kingdom of senkadagala.     Dance rehearsal, rehearsals for a play, stage set design, costume design, music rehearsals, and launching a magazine for art day were all part of led by 13 D arts class. Everything was a new experience for everyone . We recognized our abilities and shared those abilities with each other . Despite the inconvenience of school work and extracurricular activities in the last days but we helped each other to make art day a success. As a result of our efforts we were fortunate to be the author of the most beautiful festivals ever held the collage. We embellished art day by creating b...

  Sri Lanka  CEILAN -   This is a map of ancient Sri Lanka .The name Ceilan is written on the top left-hand corner. A bay and several points can be seen on the map. There is a ship shown on the map. The country is surrounded by the sea. The map shows a lot of mountains, trees and animals such as elephant, deer, fox etc. The map includes names different places, sea and other important landmarks in a different language. TAPROBANE - Old antique Ptolemy map Date of the first edition - 1522 woodcut- Size -31.5  -45 cm Verso text- Latin  The identity of Ptolemy's Taprobane has been a source of confusion, but it appeared to be the present day Sri Lanka on the medieval maps of Abu Rehan 1030 and Edrisi 1154 and in the writing of Marco Polo 1292 . SRI  LANKA -  Formally known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.