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...name again cropped up, this time as a potential donor for a $23 million project aimed at rehabilitating former Tiger combatants. Rajaratnam had agreed to donate $1 million for the government project, funded by the governments of Japan and the U.S. and local business giants like Aitken Spence, Brandix, Ceylon Tobacco, Dilmah, Hayleys, John Keells, MAS Holdings and Unilever. "We initiated the program and the formal agreements were signed in September," Sarath Godakanda, an official at the Ministry of Justice and Law Reforms, told TIME. It was not clear whether the funds pledged by Rajaratnam had already been received...
Michelle De Kretser's first novel, The Rose Grower, was set in revolutionary France; her second, The Hamilton Case, which won a Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Encore Award, in colonial Ceylon. With her latest, The Lost Dog, she visits contemporary Australia and mid-20th century India. The span of globetrotting mirrors de Kretser's own life. Born in Sri Lanka, she migrated to Australia as a teenager. De Kretser took her first degree in French at Melbourne University, then moved to Paris for her M.A. before returning to Australia where she worked, perhaps aptly, as a travel editor...
...prodigiously restless world traveler in the early 19th century, a time before Ambien and JetBlue when the world was a dangerous, miserably uncomfortable place to travel. He circled the earth, traversed Siberia, roamed the Australian outback and the Brazilian rain forest, climbed Vesuvius during an eruption, hunted elephants in Ceylon and slave ships in the Atlantic and wrote best-selling books about it all. He did all this despite a grave handicap: he was blind...
...will also build an orphanage in each country and secure financing for the psychological care of youngsters there. "We want to show that we feel connected to these countries in which we have been active for decades," says ThyssenKrupp CEO Ekkehard Schulz. British American Tobacco's Sri Lankan division, Ceylon Tobacco Company, has pledged to rebuild a destroyed village, too. British American Tobacco plans to announce a substantial cash contribution to the relief drive this week. Companies whose products or services are desperately needed in affected countries - from drugmakers to utility companies - have come forward with in-kind contributions. French...
...case involving white men--of the territory he's treading. De Kretser's prose is stunning and subtle in depicting his downfall, evoking the glittering excesses of colonial life--after a party "you could have strolled across the lagoon on the champagne corks"--and the tropical fecundity of Ceylon with equally irresistible power. Who could stop reading a chapter that begins, "Her father, a bony, vivid man with a taste for women and morphine, had drowned in the rip off Trincomalee on Maud's sixteenth birthday...