On the Way to Buddha’s Tooth

Waltzing down the road to town, Mara quipped, “This is heaven” — and promptly collapsed with a cry, stumbling over the broken pavement.

Waltzing down the road to town, Mara quipped, “This is heaven” — and promptly collapsed with a cry, stumbling over the broken pavement.

The day-long bone-jangling train ride to Kandy began in the morning with a puja for the opening of a new luxury hotel in Mirissa. The owners (who also ran our more modest tourist lodgings) gave us, the lone foreigners, f…