My story of surviving after drowning! (On 13.04.2006)
By Malini Shankar, Digital Discourse Foundation Hello, I have just come back from a very adventurous trip to Kitulgala, its the place where the Oscar winning "The Bridge on the River Kwai" was filmed. This place in Sri Lanka is now known for white water rafting and yours truly had a few brush ups with the blessed travel agent and finally after my companion, - the office receptionist who had promised to accompany me to assist with photography and give me graceful company did not turn up, I went to Kitulgala by a rickety old bus from Colombo on the day the New Year holidays started - on the 11th of April. 14th April is the Buddhist and Tamil New Year... so its usually a weeklong holiday for the Buddhist New Year in Sri Lanka. All of Sri Lanka's vehicles were on Colombo's roads and the cops were also ofcourse busy celebrating the onset of holidays with Kiribath, so mayhem ruled the traffic lanes. It took 3 hours for me to wait for my princess not to turn up ...