Like many others in India, cricket was my introduction to Sri Lanka, a country that felt so much like home on my first visit a few months ago. So similar are the two landscapes that the Mani Ratnam-directed film Kannathil Muthamittal, whose plot unfolds in Sri Lanka, was shot in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, and few could tell that it wasn’t set in Sri Lanka. Some 2,000 fishermen and their families, all of who are Sri Lankan Tamils, live around the hotel. “Every month, 5,000 tourists fly out of Mumbai alone to Sri Lanka,” says Rohit Nambisan, senior executive, sales, Sri Lankan Airlines. The recipes crossed the seas when the Portuguese invaded Sri Lanka in the late 16th century, some eight decades after their conquest of Goa.

Source: Indian Express September 17, 2016 19:41 UTC