Expat Sri Lankan Seniors celebrate Sinhala & Tamil Harvest Festival in Sydney Sinhalese New Year, generally known as Aluth Avurudda in Sri Lanka, is a Sri Lankan holiday that celebrates the traditional New Year of the Sinhalese people in Sri Lanka. It is a major anniversary celebrated by not only the Sinhalese people but by most Sri Lankans. Circumventing Loneliness Sri Lankans who left the shores for better pastures, in their retirement in the alien country, are getting that feeling of loneliness, when the kith and kin lives far away, and your lifetime partner has left to a better world. The saying goes,” We are born alone and die alone” Loneliness becomes part of the journey when you get that terrifying feeling of getting in to the ‘departure lounge’  Most of us don’t fear death, because that is inevitable if your born, but the fear of ‘Loneliness’ is dreading and enduring during the last stages with accompanied disabilities, ill-health, and your hapless ...

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