Today Sunil Perera may not face difficulty of finding this amount,the Gypsies musical band did so well in past decades .
Actually once Sunil Perera told the name Gypsies he used purposely because at the time he started the group all the group members were like Gypsies ,they were not stable both financially and professionally.
I don't really believe what he is saying,though Sunil Perera claims that he did not get through Ordinary level Examination his ideas seems to be very broad and far sighted.I have a thought long time ago before I even heard of Gypsy king Sunil Perera might have been a good fan of them...
All this came to my mind was seeing the real gypsies on my way to office.The
We don' t have large gypsy culture like in Europe.They never had caravans, these people actually originally came from India most of them talking Theligu or Tamil,majority of them settled in Easten Province but still there are some living as an isolated groups in some parts of the country.
Traditionally donkeys or mules to carry their belongings .Except the movie which Malani Fonseka acted as a Gypsy girl I haven't seen it in reality.Of course that movie is very elaborated and exaggerated.
One thing is quiet true those days they did not stay over a week in a same place.
Actually they were moving from place to place.Also there were many bare lands and people did not mind coming them even to a private land.
They do snake charming,fortune telling and showing monkey dancing so and so...
Still they do the same thing, but what they really don t do is now they don t move.They are perfectly staying at one place over six months funniest thing is they are fighting to stay forever.
Of course we should all aware everything around us have changed.This Gypsy community can't move around like old days,lands are being divided in to smallest as possible.
We may easily say they can join with the normal society,but these people they don t have any identification,no birth certificate,no school actually no name so they don t get permanent job.
They only surviving what they can do but staying in one place.Some of them do labor jobs on daily basis.
Now they don t have traditional materials for their shelter,such as Palmaira leaves ,now they use
every syntactic materials which they can get free.
Actually I spoke with some of this modern Gypsies.The most shocking thing I heard was it is very difficult to find some one to marry them and they are getting married in to their first cousins and more worst scenarios than that.
So ended up in disable children more frequently and most of the government hospitals also refusing them even for child birth.
Quoting from Lord Buddha even a birth has a human is great thing we have to do so much good work to be born as humans from the previous birth.
All Buddhist believe life is a cyclic and rebirth.
But Imaging born into such life?
Sunil Perera, the Sri lankan Gypsy King
The Popular Actress,Ex-parliamentarian Malani Fonseka in her Gypsy costumes.
Some Gypsy people with their snakes...
Snake charming is a very popular thing among most of them.
Actually snake is like their most valuable thing.All grown up male gypsies are keeping snakes or a monkey .This still has not changed much.
Not anymore...
Modern Gypsy shelters, where they live longer period than they used to be.Diff rent materials for shelters.
have
been accused of engaging in activities that have defamed ex-President
Mahinda Rajapakse during various TV talk shows. As a result of these
practices, MR had sent letters of demand to these five individuals.
Moreover, they have been charged one billion rupees each except for
Minister Mangala Samaraweera who has been charged Rs.500 million - See
more at:
http://www.dailymirror.lk/81131/replies-to-mr-s-letters-of-demand#sthash.TNkYTTBh.dpuf
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