TOURISM – IT’S ADVANTAGES & DISADVANTAGES.

Tourism is one of Sri Lanka’s latest money spinners. Every plane daily brings scores of tourists along with beneficial dollars, Marks, Pounds and other currencies. Thus our foreign exchange earnings increase. Therefore, Sri Lanka which is an under – developed country is getting a new look that is very prosperous. The various hotels have given jobs to our local youth and so have helped to solve our – employment problem to a great extent. No doubt, tourism has brought in several benefits to our country but two great disasters have also come in its wake. The first is the deathly blow to our culture and civilization. Most of the tourists coming here in search of the sun, sand and swimming have also been responsible for a lot of sin.

These tourists with loose morels are corrupting our culture. Young men and girls are brought for money to satisfy their lower instincts and our high moral culture and civilization are receiving a fatal blow. It is better to live poor like the country mouse than to have the good things of life by the sale of our young men and women.

The other disaster is the increase in the price of goods as a result of these tourist hotels. The poor and middle class have come to the end of their tether. Fish, meat, and vegetable prices have shot up by leaps and bounds because these hotels pay very high prices for these commodities with the result that the common man cannot pay the same prices. Cut with tourism, I say. Let us be content with the little we have.

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TRUTE.

Truth is a great quality, but not commonly found among men. It is difficult to come out with the truth because it can bring trouble. But a proverb says, “Better a sour than a lie.” A lie which is the opposite of truth can do well as harm. One may lie after killing, and another can be punished for the murder which he did not commit. But the truth will come to the top like oil on water.

Human beings have a sinful nature and so they are prone always to do wrong and deny it. That is the opposite of truth. Children must be taught in early life to speak the truth. Comparatively, the western children more often come out with the truth than the children from the East.

Some powerful people do not like less powerful people speaking the truth, because such powerful people will get into hot water. So, they will do everything possible to prevent the less powerful, speaking the truth. To achieve their end, they will even kill. Christ was crucified because he spoke the truth and so had other martyrs suffered because they lived truthful lives.

Truth is stranger than fiction. In real life, we come across incidents which are truer and more real than what we find in fabricated stories. Truth is most betrayed in the courts of Justice. There is a cartoon in the Law Library of Sri Lanka showing a man in the dock, a court scene and with these words below it. “The fool who spoilt the fun by speaking the truth.”

If all are true in thought word and deed the world will be a better place to live in. But it will never be so.

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WILD ELEPHANTS IN SRI LANKA.

Giant animals like elephants can be regarded as an asset to a country. But there is a limited number of elephants in our forest reserves today. Wild elephants are faced with the dangerous threat of extinction. This situation has been arisen due to several reasons.

During the past few decades a large forest cover was cleared for development purposes, farming and human settlement. Under this situation elephants lost their natural habitat. As a result of this elephants resorted to raiding plantations for food, sometimes causing human deaths. According to the statistics of the Wild Life conservation department, nearly 75 – 100 elephants are killed in our country every year. Also nearly 25 – 35 people are killed by elephants every year. This is a very sad state of affairs.

The government should find ways and means to solve this man – elephant conflict. Particularly, during the drought season elephants rampage in village in search of water. Sometimes they damage house too. When the cultivations and houses are damaged by wild elephants, farmers compel to kill elephants. Some people kill elephants for their valuable tusks. Even their hair and skin are used to produce various items.

The wild life department alone cannot rescue elephants from danger. All the voluntary organizations should extend their co – operation towards the department to make their effort a success. Although the government has passed laws to stop hunters from killing wild elephants, they do not seen to have been effective.

When we go through the newspapers, we can see reports on killing of wild elephants in somewhere in Sri Lanka almost everyday. It is a heart rending scene to see the pictures of dead elephants published in them.

What can we do to stop this destruction? The government should take steps to prevent people from encroaching into areas where elephants live in large numbers. These areas have to be protected and stern should be taken against those who hunt elephants. As citizens of Sri Lanka we too should assist the government in this connection. Re – a forestation schemes should be introduced to ensure that they have enough foot and water. More elephant orphanages should be set up in such reserves to enable the elephants to live in security. Another way to preserve elephants in the country is to create more public awareness of their fate through the print and Electronic media.

Most of the tourists, both local and foreign are attracted by our sanctuaries where there are herds of wild elephants. It is the bounden duty of everyone to protect these animals.

Statistics of the Department of wild life reveal that the total number of wild elephants in Sri Lanka today is between 3 000 and 3 500. Statistics also reveal that the elephant extinct rate per week is three together with one human demise. Let’s protect our wild elephants.

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NAURE IN ANGRY MOOD.

The sun shone in all its brightness and glory. Everybody around seemed set for a bright evening. No thought of wind or rain or storm crossed anyone’s mind, not even mine. So I had great thoughts of spending the evening at my friend’s house playing a game of cards.

A little dark cloud was seen sailing towards the land from over the sea. It was followed by a few more dark clouds and suddenly in the distance was seen a flash of lightning and a clap of thunder. The crows were flying Pall Mall to their shelters. The air grew colder and blew faster. It seemed as if there was an eclipse of the sun. The whole earth went pitch dark in a few moments and then came the rein in torrents. The flood gates of heaven had opened. The thunder pealed and the lightning flashed unceasingly. Nature was in her angriest mood, it seemed.

As the wind and rain raced towards the land, trees came down in dozens, the huge branches were carried like feathers far and wide. lion and concrete posts which held electric and telephone wires were uprooted and fell in heaps. Asbestos sheets from some houses looked like flying saucers. Landed, a storm had been unleashed over a place which was quiet and silent as the cemetery. Nature had cleaned and purified the dust – covered streets with the distilled water of the skies. A shocked city went to sleep in fear that storm would not abate for some time. I missed my card game and slept costly in my bed.

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A DREAM I HAVE SEED.

I am a first class day – dreamer and rarely do I see dreams at night. But a few years ago, I saw a dream at night. But a few years ago, I saw a dream at night which I shall remember all the days of my life. It was a horrible dream.

That day I had gone to see the great horror story “Dracula.” The show was over at 12.00 midnight. In the theatre itself, I was getting the creeps when I thought of my journey home, because I had to pass a cemetery. Luckily, my friend who went with me, promised to give me a lift on his motor – bike. This he did, but passing the cemetery, we heard some frightful noises. Both of us came home sweating and my friend was in no mood to ride back to his home. So he decided to sleep with me in my bed. We could not eat and went to bed on an empty stomach.

As I slept, I saw a bat flying towards me through the fanlight of my windows. It came and rested on my pillow and as its mouth was approaching my neck, I gave a yell that world have awakened all the dead in the cemetery. My friend who slept by me was equally frightened by my hellish yell. His hand had clutched my throat. That was the thing that I felt as a but at my throat. My parents kept awake by us all that night.

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RUBBER CULTIVATION IN SRI LANKA.

Rubber cultivation in Sri Lanka was started by the English. It is our second biggest revenue earner. Rubber is not a native of Sri Lanka. It is a native of South America. But it grows very well in the middle country of Sri Lanka. It too, needs plenty of water and sunshine.

Many companies do rubber cultivation here because it does not pay very much to have it on small scale. Most of the companies grow rubber on estates of over hundred acres.

As in tea estates, there are gangs of laborers who tap rubber which needs skill, care and experience. The laborers here are mostly Sinhalese, but they do not start work well after the sun has risen and the climate in the mid country is not very cold. But the payment here is too poor. Once the rubber latex, (milk), is collected in to the buckets of about three gallons each, it is taken to the factory and heated and out comes the elastic substance we call rubber which is used for tires, tubes and for other rubber products. Most of the rubber produced is exported. There is chemically produced rubber, known as artificial rubber, in other countries, but natural rubber is far superior to the artificially manufactured rubber.

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