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  • The remains of a classic house of Jaffna with styled with Tamil & colonial dutch influence.
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  • A hindu tamil hotel assistant boils milk by burning bamboo cane outside the hotel at the commencement of Thai Pongal celebrations. Boiling over of milk symbolizes material abundance for the household.
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  • The eelam people's democratic party office in Jaffna.
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  • The eelam people's democratic party office in Jaffna.
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  • Delft Island Landscape
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  • A wall inside the Jaffna fort covered with Graffiti.
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  • A bombed out dwelling now over grown & infested with land mine within the High Security Zone.
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  • The food offered to the Sun God at sunrise to demonstrate gratitude for the harvest. It is later served to the people present in the house for the ceremony. The food consists of Fruit, savories and sweets such as vadai, murukku, paayasam and finally the boiled rice.
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  • Women selling fish at the fish market just outside of Jaffna town near the Jaffna Fort.
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  • Two labourers trying to start up their Massey Ferguson tractor.
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  • St John the baptist church just outside of the centre of Jaffna town.
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  • Man carries furniture along the back streets of jaffna town.
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  • A portrait of a family, with the father sitting on the step & his daughters & wife by the door.
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  • Two Sri Lankan women wearing colourful Shalwar kameez and shawl walk along the black shore at Arugam Bay known locally as "Arugam Kudah"  in the dry zone on the southeast coast of Sri Lanka.
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  • Ferry captain & owner looking out to the palk straight.
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  • Two farmers stock up there warehouse with vegetables which would be then be used by the Army personel stationed in & around Jaffna.
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  • A bombed out dwelling now over grown & infested with land mine within the High Security Zone.
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  • Sri Lankan soldiers on patrol in Jaffna
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  • Army officer runs out of the abandoned Jaffna railway station as two homeless girls whom live within the railways staion look on.
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  • Metal worker welding a metal structure in the industrial area of Jaffna.
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  • Mechanic looking under the bonnet of a Morris Minor which isnt starting.
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  • Army Officers on patrol around Jaffna town.
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  • A Sri Lankan Sri Lankan Army officer on patrol in Jaffna
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  • Police question a local Jaffna resident on the street.
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  • Army officer runs out of the abandoned Jaffna railway station as two homeless girls whom live within the railways staion look on.
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  • A torch bearer leads the thai pongal hindu celerations inside the Nallur Kandaswamy temple.
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  • A hindu priest  or Swamy passing on Bhiksha, a devotional offering from worshipper into the shrine.
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  • Worshipper prays towards a painting of a hindu god inside the Nallur Kandaswamy temple.
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  • Hotel assistant pours red rice into the pot of boiling milk as part of the Thai Ponggal celebration which is traditionally intended to thank the Sun God and farmstead livestock that helped create the material abundance.
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  • Young men in Jaffna town cycle back home after watching a hindi movie at the local cinema.
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  • Hotel assistant pours red rice into the pot of boiling milk as part of the Thai Ponggal celebration which is traditionally intended to thank the Sun God and farmstead livestock that helped create the material abundance.
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  • Workers rebuilding the Jaffna Fort seek shelter from the rain in a former L.T.T.E army bunker on the fringes of the Jaffna fort.
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  • Local mens & children clothes merchant in his tiny shop along the narrow bazaar alleys in Jaffna town.
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  • Young boys fishing in one of the many man made lakes around Jaffna town.
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  • Army helicopter passes a palm tree while flying over Jaffna
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  • Army officers on patrol in Jaffna
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  • Army officer on patrol
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  • A navy officer on patrol
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  • A broken down old car with its bonnet up in Nagadeepa
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  • Locals wearing life jackets on a Ferry near Nagadeepa
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  • The famous tree in Delft is the Baobab tree which has a hollow into which one could walk in upright and the space inside could hold about six standing adults.
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  • Delft Island Landscape
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  • Remnants of the  ruins of a Dutch colonial fort on Delft Island also known as Neduntheevu
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  • A swarmy walks to worshippers presenting a burning flame which they worship & then placed in front of the shrine of the monkey god Hanuman, inside the Sri Anjaneyar Temple in Jaffna.
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  • A hindu priest or Swamy passing on Bhiksha, a devotional offering from worshipper to the monkey god known as Hanuman inside the Sri Anjaneyar Temple in Jaffna.
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  • The semi arid tropical landscape of Point Pedro.
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  • A truck drives into a river
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  • Two men riding their bicycles side by side
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  • Hindu worshippers outside a Hindu temple on the outskirts of Jaffna.
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  • An old bunker along the coast of Point Pedro
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  • Mother 'dinks' her young daughter on the back of her bicycle through the back streets of Jaffna.
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  • A tuk tuk or 3 wheeler driver waits for a customer
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  • A cross in dedication for those killed by the 2004 Tsunami in Point Pedro.
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  • Aloe vera plants near a lake outside of Point Pedro
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  • Three wheeler or 'Tuk Tuk' Mechanic
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  • A colourful A hindu Temple
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  • A former L.T.T.E army bunker at a intersection.
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  • Young boys fishing in one of the many man made lakes around Jaffna town.
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  • A group of men resting outside a workshop
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  • A man fixing a Massey Ferguson tractor
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  • A wood yard in Jaffna town
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  • Police officer commanding traffic at the junction just outside of the main high street of Hospital road.
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  • Local mens & children clothes merchant in his tiny shop along the narrow bazaar alleys in Jaffna town.
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  • Roadside fruit vendor in Jaffna town.
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  • Womens clothing shop featuring the very colourful mannequins, which are very common throught clothing shops in Jaffna.
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  • Shoe shop & fruit stall along Power House road.
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  • A hindu shrine along the road in Jaffna
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  • Commuters walking to the Jaffna bus stand
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  • Sri Lankan army officer on patrol within the Jaffna fort.
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  • Man Riding a bicycle
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  • Dressed up mannequins in a colourful sari boutique in the main shopping precinct of Pettah.
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  • A red tuk tuk or three wheeler drives past one of the many old dutch styled houses remnants of the dutch development taken during the Dutch occupation.
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  • The entrance of the Jaffna fort.
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  • Labourers taking broken rock to the Jaffna fort.
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  • A three wheel stand outside the market in Jaffna.
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  • Army troops patrolling the main street of Jaffna, Hospital Road.
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  • The now abandoned Jaffna railway station which was dismantled during the war is now home to some of Jaffna's homeless.
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  • An old L.T.T.E lookout bunker used during the 30 year civil war.
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  • A biscuit & confectionary outlet in Jaffna town.
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  • Rio ice cream a very popular ice cream parlour in Jaffna town.
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  • A farmer cultivating his paddy field.
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  • Sri Lankan army special forces ride back to base through Jaffna's back roads.
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  • A hindu worshipper prays at the front of the Sri Anjaneyar Temple in Jaffna.
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  • The eelam people's democratic party office in Jaffna.
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  • One of the many motorbike & scooter shops in Jaffna which have opened up since the end of the war.
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  • Boys playing cricket outside a church in Jaffna.
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  • A wood yard in Jaffna town, a key resource in the rebuilding of Jaffna & the war ravaged north.
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  • The famous tree in Delft is the Baobab tree which has a hollow into which one could walk in upright and the space inside could hold about six standing adults.
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  • Fishing boats which are also used as ferries transporting commuters between the small islands near the Jetty of Nagadeepa.
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  • British cars such as the Morris Minor & Austin Cambridge parked on the Jaffna high street of Hospital Road.
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  • The once productive KKS cement factory is inside the high security zone and therefore is not functional.
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  • Worshipper holds & presents a lit coconut, the coconut represents the human body, the coconut is  the purest thing that a human being can offer to a deity. This will later be broken symbolizing the breaking of the ego.
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  • Hotel staff look on as the food prepared for the Thai Pongal is blessed with Incense.
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  • Worshipper holding a coconut representing the human body, the coconut is the purest thing that a human being can offer to a deity. This will later be broken symbolizing the breaking of the ego.
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  • A swarmy walks to worshippers presenting a burning flame which they worship & then placed in front of the shrine of the monkey god Hanuman, inside the Sri Anjaneyar Temple in Jaffna.
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  • Worshippers pile into a bus after visiting the Nallur Kandaswamy temple for Thai Pongal celebrations in Jaffna.
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