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Surviving Colombo

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Surviving Colombo - Kandy - Bentota ----------------------------------------------------- ------ The sun is getting rather too much for my eyes through these windowpanes even as I sit in the waiting lounge at the Negambo Airport, about 45km from Colombo - officially Sri Lanka's largest airport - waiting to take my flight out to New Delhi. So I have put my shades on and that is how I am writing this to you. I suppose that this is reason good enough for any oversights and faux pax that may continue to remain in this post, like the last few fish that remain in the nets after one has unlo aded the lot on the deck of the trailer. I have been hibernating for too long on this blog site. The reason is not the lack of substance, no sir, in fact my nomadic lifestyle is as intact as ever and gives me enough fodder for thought. I have been in between vacations, and travels - Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Indore, Saat taal (twice), even outside the country to Bangkok and Pattaya (second time). But it was