This vintage photograph from early 20th-century Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) captures three Sinhalese women selling rambutan, a tropical fruit still popular today. Seated on the ground, they have their woven baskets filled with fresh produce, carefully arranged for sale. Their traditional attire—white blouses and sarongs—reflects the clothing style of local vendors at the time. Rambutan, […]
In 1950s I travelled to primary school with my two elder sisters in a very similar cart. Carts of this kind always parked at railway stations as taxis, even in a place like Gampaha.
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feel like to go back to the Gold age
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Hi. Please know you who is in this photo right? That boy right in photo Bullock Hackery, Ceylon? It is very important. Thank you :)