Maybe only a sentimental old fool like me would be moved by Saint Andrews Anglican Church in Haputale (and dozens of similar Anglican Churches across Sri Lanka) but the Tamil community who this church still serves really care about this place and it tells a real story about the British in Sri Lanka.

I am not a religious person and I will not attempt to defend imperial rule but Saint Andrews, set in its neat little graveyard, with its well polished brass plaque in memory of the Haputale planters who fell in the Great War of 1914 to 1918 brought a lump to my throat.

If I should die, think only this of me - and all that.

In the township of Haputale, which is on the railway in the south of the Sri Lanka Hill Country

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