"Maggie was ten years younger than him. Being cross-cousins, they lived in the same compound, in the same two houses that still existed. When their parents told him to take her for his wife, there was ..."
- Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
"Carolina protected her so that Suneetha should remain a virgin until her wedding night. The worth of such purity in character was immeasurable in this society and culture. Therefore, she never even al..."
"Families could often trace their lineage back several centuries. Their livelihood was earned from drum playing, a service considered to be dis-respectable. As members of a low caste, the drummers were..."
"Generally, that humble piece of furniture placed on the front veranda of the house officially belonged to the man of the household; the women never slept on it."
"In a front of each home garden the villagers fixed a triangular wooden lamp-house on the top of a pole planted on the ground to hold a small statue of Lord Buddha and some deities. They used to offer ..."
"Master Salamon usually set off a little later as neither he nor other male members of their community were in the habit of walking on the road alongside their wives."
"The villagers considered it lucky to make the New Year's first money transaction with her because she was a prosperous person."
"When he had accompanied his father on drumming errands he noticed how high caste men and women treated them as inferior. They had to enter from the back door and wait near the kitchen or at a side ver..."
"Our innocent kids undergo much trouble. Not only do the children of high caste families look down upon our children calling them low caste brats, but even some teachers ridicule them. They beat our ch..."
"Even though we are supposed to be low caste and poor our vote also has the same value and validity as that of great people."