Having completed pindapatha (the alms round), Welimada Karuna Mehenin Wahanse wends her sedate way back to her aramaya off a by-road down Melder Place set amidst the hustle and bustle of Nugegoda ...

After all, were it not for the 19th-century monarch, we might not celebrate Christmas with a well-appointed fir tree. Though people across the globe had been decorating temples and domestic ...