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  • 1,890 meters (6,200 feet) above sea level and surrounded by lush tea plantations in Sri Lanka's Hill Country district of Nuwara Eliya, women tea pickers bend over trees to harvest Ceylon tea leaves that are taken to the white building on the left for processing. A carpet of velvety green tea bushes stretch into the far distance. This is the heart of the island's tea industry but was a pleasure retreat of the European planters due to its temperate English climate that produces the finest leaves for the country's economy. Teas from this highest region are described as the champagne of Ceylon teas. The leaf is gathered all year round but the finest teas are made from that plucked in January and February. The best teas of the area give a rich, golden, excellent quality liquor that is smooth, bright, and delicately perfumed.
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  • A scenic view of a forested valley and surrounding tea plantations in Katukitula, Sri Lanka. The British planter, James Taylor introduced tea to Sri Lanka in 1867, the cooler climate of the Kandy region is perfect of growing Tea. Approximately 4000 square miles of Sri Lankan highlands in covered in tea plantations.
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  • 1980s Sri Lankan schoolgirls in clean white uniforms and visiting the ancient city of Polonnaruwa, stand alongside the Shiva Devale temple, on 12th Arpil 1980, at Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka. Shiva Devale No 2 is the oldest structure in Polonnaruwa and dates from the brief Chola period, when the Indian invaders established the city. Built in the 11th century, this Hindu temple built entirely of stone. Within in the sanctum is a stone carved lingam or phallus, a symbol of Hindu god Diva. In front of the temple is the Nandi bull, God Shiva’s vehicle. Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka’s splendid medieval capital was established as the first city of the land in the 11th Century, A.D.
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  • A nosy cat inspects a lorry that with a flat tyre, and its spilled market produce in the middle of the Galle Face Road in the Sri Lankan capital, on 16th April 1980, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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  • One a hot November night, a Sri Lankan Airlines A340-300 series Airbus - registration number 4R-ADE - is bathed in high-intensity floodlights on the apron at Malé international airport in the Republic of the Maldives. Surrounded by passenger steps, servicing vehicles for catering and the loading of baggage and air freight in the below-floor holds, the aircraft is readied for its next flight to Colombo, another journey for this aircraft as it travels across the world's air routes.
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  • The flight-deck crew of a Sri Lankan Airlines A340-300 series Airbus - registration number 4R-ADE - perform a series of pre-flight checks before a scheduled departure, while on the apron at Malé international airport in the Republic of the Maldives. Featuring electronic instruments it is known as a 'glass cockpit' and using a printed checklist manual, they methodically work through dozens of complex systems that require accurate input before the aircraft is ready for take off. Flight navigation computers, fuel and engine settings and radio frequencies all need programming by the two pilots, the captain on the left and the First Officer on the right. These modern airliners have only two pilots in a modern flight-deck as technology superceeded the need for a third member, the flight-engineers of a previous era of aviation.
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  • About to board their Sri Lankan airlines flight to the Maldives, crowds of economy class passengers stand and make an orderly queue when their flight has been called by ground staff at London Heathrow airport England. Lines of people from all nations can be seen reflected in a large window that also overlooks the airport apron where their front-facing Airbus A340-300 aircraft awaits them, its flight-deck crew is seen in the cockpit readying their plane for the long night journey ahead. Catering service trucks are parked alongside the aircraft, loading supplies and all is on schedule from this large intercontinental airport hub to the much smaller island airfield in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the idyllic destination for holidaying Europeans.
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  • After the riots of London and other UK cities, Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah expresses shock in his looted shop 'Clarence Convenience Store' in Clarence Road, Hackney. After the riots of London and other UK cities, Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah expresses shock in his looted shop 'Clarence Convenience Store' in Clarence Road, Hackney. During the riot in London on Monday 8th August, local youths and older residents of nearby estates ransacked the business and either removed Siva’s stock or left the rest to spoil on the unrefrigerated floor. In alcohol and cigarettes alone, he lost £50,000 in stock but during the campaign top help him recover, more than £16,000 was raised by his customers and friends.
    siva_kandiah3-12-August-2011_1_1.jpg
  • After the riots of London and other UK cities, Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah expresses shock in his looted shop 'Clarence Convenience Store' in Clarence Road, Hackney. After the riots of London and other UK cities, Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah expresses shock in his looted shop 'Clarence Convenience Store' in Clarence Road, Hackney. During the riot in London on Monday 8th August, local youths and older residents of nearby estates ransacked the business and either removed Siva’s stock or left the rest to spoil on the unrefrigerated floor. In alcohol and cigarettes alone, he lost £50,000 in stock but during the campaign top help him recover, more than £16,000 was raised by his customers and friends.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store6-11-Aug...jpg
  • Below the flooring of economy class, a cargo handler manhandles a container of air freight into position in the hold of a Sri Lankan Airlines Airbus A340 that is about to depart from Male, the capital of the Republic of the Maldives  to Colombo. Inside the aluminium box is fresh tuna fish, freshly caught in the Indian Ocean and bound for the supermarkets of the EU and in particular, the UK whose insatiable appetite for fresh, perishable and sustainable foodstuffs make this fast and efficient form of transport important to speedy delivery. Every square inch is accounted for but as well as passengers' baggage, the cramped spaces beneath this modern airliner store loaded revenue-rich cargo though specially-pressurised and heated compartments accommodate live animals.
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  • Two employees of Cyprea Marine Foods fillet freshly-caught  yellow fin tuna fish at the company's refrigerated processing factory on Himmafushi island, Maldives. The 50kg carcasses have been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and just line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been in ice since being landed to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The Sri Lankan workers are ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using extremely sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.
    maldives89-12-11-2007.jpg
  • A team of employees of Cyprea Marine Foods fillet freshly-caught yellow fin tuna fish at the company's refrigerated processing factory on Himmafushi island, Maldives. The 50kg carcasses have been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth, just line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been in ice since being landed to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The Sri Lankan workers are ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using extremely sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.
    maldives85-12-11-2007.jpg
  • WHile awaiting their applications for political asylum to be processed, three Sri Lankan Tamil families stand for a portrait in a North London play park, on 16th January 1986, in London, England. The Tamils are from the Indian Ocean island where the civil war there is ongoing and where the Buddhist government have been persecuted by the Singhalese majority. The families have recently arrived in Britain and are temporarily housed in council flats in Chalk Farm in North London.
    tamil_refugees-16-01-1986.jpg
  • Beneath the sculpture by Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger entitled The World Turned Upside Down, new graduates straight after their graduation ceremonies meet family and friends outside the London School of Economics LSE, on 22nd July 2019, in London, England. The World Turned Upside Down is a large political globe, four metres in diameter, with nation states and borders outlined but with the simple and revolutionary twist of being inverted. Most of the landmasses now lie in the ‘bottom’ hemisphere with the countries and cities re-labelled for this new orientation.
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  • Beneath the sculpture by Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger entitled The World Turned Upside Down, new graduates straight after their graduation ceremonies meet family and friends outside the London School of Economics LSE, on 22nd July 2019, in London, England. The World Turned Upside Down is a large political globe, four metres in diameter, with nation states and borders outlined but with the simple and revolutionary twist of being inverted. Most of the landmasses now lie in the ‘bottom’ hemisphere with the countries and cities re-labelled for this new orientation.
    LSE_graduates-22-22-07-2019.jpg
  • The head of a freshly-caught yellow fin tuna fish lies inert on a filleting table at a refrigerated processing factory on Himmafushi island, Maldives. The 50kg carcass has been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and just line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been in ice since being landed to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The filleting is performed by Sri Lankan ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.
    maldives105-12-11-2007.jpg
  • An employee of Cyprea Marine Foods fillets freshly-caught  yellow fin tuna fish at the company's refrigerated processing factory on Himmafushi island, Maldives. The 50kg carcasses have been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and just line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been in ice since being landed to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The Sri Lankan workers are ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using extremely sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.
    maldives93-12-11-2007.jpg
  • A chunk of prime yellow fin tuna fish steak lies after filleting on a table in a processing factory on the island of Himmafushi, Maldives. The 50kg carcasses have been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and having just been line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been encased in ice since being landed at sea to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The Sri Lankan butchers are ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using extremely sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.
    maldives120-12-11-2007.jpg
  • The tail and sharp barbs of a freshly-caught yellow fin tuna fish lies inert on a filleting table at a refrigerated processing factory on Himmafushi island, Maldives. The 50kg carcass has been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and just line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been in ice since being landed at sea to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The filleting is performed by Sri Lankan ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw the rest.
    maldives98-12-11-2007.jpg
  • A tuna fish's sharp yellow fin protrudes from shredded ice at the Cyprea Marine Foods processing factory on Himmafushi Island, Maldives. The 50kg carcasses have been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and having just been line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been encased in ice since being landed at sea to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The Sri Lankan butchers are ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using extremely sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.
    maldives135-12-11-2007.jpg
  • After the riots of London and other UK cities, volunteers and friends of Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah's looted shop 'Clarence Convenience Store' in Clarence Road, Hackney. During the riot in London on Monday 8th August, local youths and older residents of nearby estates ransacked the business and either removed Siva’s stock or left the rest to spoil on the unrefrigerated floor. In alcohol and cigarettes alone, he lost £50,000 in stock but during the campaign top help him recover, more than £16,000 was raised by his customers and friends.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store19-12-Au...jpg
  • A local campaign helps to raise funds for a looted shop, the victim of the riots in London and other UK cities. The store belongs to Sri Lankan-born Tamil refugee Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah and his shop, the 'Clarence Convenience Store' is in Clarence Road, Hackney. During the riot in London on Monday 8th August, local youths and older residents of nearby estates ransacked the business and either removed Siva’s stock or left the rest to spoil on the unrefrigerated floor. In alcohol and cigarettes alone, he lost £50,000 in stock but during the campaign top help him recover, more than £16,000 was raised by his customers and friends.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store37-12-Au...jpg
  • After the riots of London and other UK cities, volunteers and friends of Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah's looted shop 'Clarence Convenience Store' in Clarence Road, Hackney. During the riot in London on Monday 8th August, local youths and older residents of nearby estates ransacked the business and either removed Siva’s stock or left the rest to spoil on the unrefrigerated floor. In alcohol and cigarettes alone, he lost £50,000 in stock but during the campaign top help him recover, more than £16,000 was raised by his customers and friends.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store36-11-Au...jpg
  • A local campaign helps to raise funds for a looted shop, the victim of the riots in London and other UK cities. The store belongs to Sri Lankan-born Tamil refugee Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah and his shop, the 'Clarence Convenience Store' is in Clarence Road, Hackney. During the riot in London on Monday 8th August, local youths and older residents of nearby estates ransacked the business and either removed Siva’s stock or left the rest to spoil on the unrefrigerated floor. In alcohol and cigarettes alone, he lost £50,000 in stock but during the campaign top help him recover, more than £16,000 was raised by his customers and friends.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store35-11-Au...jpg
  • After the riots of London and other UK cities, volunteers and friends of Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah's looted shop 'Clarence Convenience Store' in Clarence Road, Hackney. During the riot in London on Monday 8th August, local youths and older residents of nearby estates ransacked the business and either removed Siva’s stock or left the rest to spoil on the unrefrigerated floor. In alcohol and cigarettes alone, he lost £50,000 in stock but during the campaign top help him recover, more than £16,000 was raised by his customers and friends.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store8-12-Aug...jpg
  • A local lady passes-by the looted Clarence Convenience Store belonging to Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah. During the riot in London on Monday 8th August, local youths and older residents of nearby estates ransacked the business and either removed Siva’s stock or left the rest to spoil on the unrefrigerated floor. In alcohol and cigarettes alone, he lost £50,000 in stock but during the campaign top help him recover, more than £16,000 was raised by his customers and friends.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store5-12-Aug...jpg
  • A personal letter of support written by a local resident of Clarence Road, Hackney and pinned to the front window of the looted Clarence Convenience Store belonging to Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah. During the riot in London on Monday 8th August, local youths and older residents of nearby estates ransacked the business and either removed Siva’s stock or left the rest to spoil on the unrefrigerated floor. In alcohol and cigarettes alone, he lost £50,000 in stock but during the campaign top help him recover, more than £16,000 was raised by his customers and friends.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store2-12-Aug...jpg
  • The damage and detritus of shop stock in the damaged Clarence Road Convenience Store belonging to Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah during the riots of London and other UK cities of August 2011. The local newspaper Hackney Gazette lies in shreds on the floor of the premises along with various other paper and goods, even electrical wiring that was ripped out. During the riot in London on Monday 8th August, local youths and older residents of nearby estates ransacked the business and either removed Siva’s stock or left the rest to spoil on the unrefrigerated floor. In alcohol and cigarettes alone, he lost £50,000 in stock but during the campaign top help him recover, more than £16,000 was raised by his customers and friends.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store2-11-Aug...jpg
  • A local youth stops to look through the window the Clarence Road Convenience Store in the London borough of Hackney. After the riots of London and other UK cities in August 2011, Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah's looted shop was ransacked and his stock either removed from the premises or left to spoil without refrigeration. On sale outside are tabloid newspapers telling the story of an Olympic ambassador, a teenage girl chosen to represent the 2012 Olympiad but who was found to have looted a small business herself.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store1-12-Aug...jpg
  • Sri Lankan-born Canadian Novelist Michael Ondaatje holds up a copy of his book The English Patient on the night he shared the Booker Prize for literature with Barry Unsworths Sacred Hunger, on 1/10/1992 in London, England. The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel, written in the English language and published in the UK.
    michael_ondaatje-01-10-1992.jpg
  • After the riots of London and other UK cities, volunteers and friends of Sri Lankan-born Sivaharan (Siva) Kandiah's looted shop 'Clarence Convenience Store' in Clarence Road, Hackney. During the riot in London on Monday 8th August, local youths and older residents of nearby estates ransacked the business and either removed Siva’s stock or left the rest to spoil on the unrefrigerated floor. In alcohol and cigarettes alone, he lost £50,000 in stock but during the campaign top help him recover, more than £16,000 was raised by his customers and friends.
    clarenceRd_convenience_store11-12-Au...jpg
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