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It brings to mind the words of Thomas Grey (1716-1771), English poet, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University, who in his "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" wrote as follows.
"Full many a gem of purest ray serene,
The dark unfathom’d caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flow’r is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air."
In Sri Lanka there are many such hidden and undiscovered gems in our rural areas. It is a tragedy that many flowers bloom and wither unseen in the village air owing to oppression by the Anglophile elitist class even after so many decades since we shed the foreign yoke.
Dr. S. Abeyesundere
USA
