August 15, 2003

A Cultural Centerpiece

By MARTHA ANN OVERLAND

The destruction of a Sri Lankan library helped spark a civil war, and its reconstruction helps signal the war's end

Arunasalam Sanmugadas smiles when he remembers learning to read as a child.

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