Community
The residents of this lane fostered a real community spirit and racial harmony - for many years the families held annual Christmas parties - it was a gathering of the local Maha Nuge Gardens community.
In terms of youth culture, the young people who lived down Maha Nuge Gardens were featured on the BBC World Service in 1972 as they had formed the only branch in Colombo of the BBC World Service Pop Club.
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