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The New Year Bird! – By Des Kelly So now, folks, we have “The New Year Bird!”  This wonderful  little “story” about the Sri Lankan Koha, brings to mind so many other happy stories about birds (the feathered kind), it seems to me that this Cuckoo (Koha) has been picked out of the dozens of varieties that exist in our little Island, to represent “Aluth Avuruddha” or Sinhalese/Tamil New Year, which begins in April, each year. The Koha may not possess the most beautiful, melodic twitter in the World, but it’s long drawn-out  “koo-ooo” is heard almost incessantly during this new-year period, a never-ending mating call of the “Koha” to entice a “Kohi” (I do love being a wordsmith, at times), to form a bond with him and produce a “kohu” or two.   I did enjoy reading Dr.Ranil Senanayake’s “writing”, sent to me by none other than the Special Cartoonist ...