Key Points
Ten miles out from the last shores ofSriLanka, it was whispered, hid the secret of immortality a golden mistletoethatgrew on an uninhabited island..
Even though the pilgrims were sometimes stranded for days by ill winds, no one ever found the mistletoe: Sinnachchi lived a century, Kanchchi10years longer still, and onewoman 160, it was saidbut each eventually mettheirend...
Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party leaders assertion that New Delhi willseek to reclaimKatchatheevu might be election-time posturing, but it will empower Sinhala nationalists in Sri Lanka who cast India as a predatory threat...
Earlier records, dating backshow shifting sovereignties, as kingdoms on both sides of the Palk Straits rose and fell.. To avoid contention,scholars N Manoharan and Madhumati Deshpandehave written, the delegates agreed to run the Fisheries Line three miles west of Katchchatheevu and compensate that elsewhere so as to maintain an equitable apportionment in the fisheries domain for both Sri Lanka and India...
Early in 1954, Nehru andhis Sri Lankan counterpartJohn Kotelawala had signed an agreement on the status of Indian-origin workers brought to work on the island nations tea, coffee, and coconut plantations..
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