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In Sri Lanka, this bird is knowns as alu girawa (ash-parrot) in Sinhala Language. This bird appears on a 50c Sri Lankan postal stamp.
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“One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fibre of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardy.”
—Jonathan Raban (b. 1942)
“The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)