Bringing Tony Home Quotes

“( referring the old high level road) how come there are so many Bo trees along the old road especially where there was a junction of sorts? I wondered a long time before I gathered much later in life that all those trees marked the spots where the legendary Buddhist revivalist Anagarika Dharmapala preached during his campaign and the British, sharp enough to observe that behind the Buddhist campaign was a national campaign, which in turn, was a political campaign, which again meant that the British rule was threatened, countered by building a public lavatory wherever the Buddhists had planted a Bo tree, and true enough there were public lavatories near Bo trees at Borella, Pettah, and Kirulapona”
― Tissa Abeysekara, Bringing Tony Home