The ones who has ever visited the greatest cities in the world like New York, Tokyo and Paris might call our village a “Hamlet”.
It is a hamlet in some respect, with its natural green surroundings, beautiful landscapes, thick bushes, skywards-grown trees, grasslands, paddy fields and more importantly slow-moving time where people have a lot of spare time to put their noses into other people’s lives.
But, it is not a hamlet in many other aspects.
Beside its twenty million population, Sri Lanka is a small nation in terms of its geography. Hence, it is only a few hours' distance to access any major metropolitan city from our so-called Hamlet.
Two ways of travelling to and from Colombo would cost not more than eight hundred rupees if you are a ‘stylish type’ to take an air-conditioned bus service.
Normal cheap bus services would cost half of this fare. So our people have sufficient outside contacts.
Don’t forget about the literacy rate of our country either. It is one of the best in the world. So our village is not real Hamlet, despite being in a somewhat remote location from Capital Colombo.
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Seven O'clock in the morning.
A pleasant hill country morning.
The heated discussion could be heard as far as this end of the street lane.
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