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https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814436137_0009Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)
Abstract:

I spent most of the summer of 1972 in Sri Lanka with my wife and family. The era of mass communication had not yet dawned — faxes, emails and the internet were nearly two decades away and international dialling was expensive. So this chit of an isle in the Indian Ocean seemed blissfully but strangely remote…