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and dourer than the Sinhalese. The Tamil crowd swarming on the station
platforms or in the villages or in the Jaffna streets has a look and air of its own,
much less animated (unless it is angry) and less gay than the Sinhalese in
Colombo or ...
and dourer than the Sinhalese. The Tamil crowd swarming on the station
platforms or in the villages or in the Jaffna streets has a look and air of its own,
much less animated (unless it is angry) and less gay than the Sinhalese in
Colombo or ...
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Another thing I liked about the Sinhalese was their religion. I am essentially and
fundamentally irreligious, as I have explained in Sowing, but, if one must have a
religion, Buddhism seems to me superior to all other religions. When I got to ...
Another thing I liked about the Sinhalese was their religion. I am essentially and
fundamentally irreligious, as I have explained in Sowing, but, if one must have a
religion, Buddhism seems to me superior to all other religions. When I got to ...
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A little while afterwards there came by some Sinhalese and the God asked them
to carry him across the river into Kataragama. They did so at once. The God at
that time was a Tamil, but he married into a Sinhalese family in Kataragama and
...
A little while afterwards there came by some Sinhalese and the God asked them
to carry him across the river into Kataragama. They did so at once. The God at
that time was a Tamil, but he married into a Sinhalese family in Kataragama and
...
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| Title | Growing, an autobiography of the years 1904-1911 |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Publisher | Hogarth Press, 1961 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › › Authors, English Biography & Autobiography / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Sri Lanka |
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