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Torsten Kapeller, is a college student from Stuttgart, Germany. He traveled in the war-torn North and East of the island on a tsunami-reduction mission to deliver tsunami warning sirens and telling different stories on his mission.
The tsunami sirens had been brought from Germany and could be operated manually to alert the coastal villages up to a several hundreds meters.
Torsten reported his mission to North was exhaustive. He visited a seashore and was struck by the magnificence of its shallow sea-mattress. From his description, I guessed it was the “Saddi” beach front in the Kayts Islands.
Visiting Kayts Islands from the Jaffna Peninsula, crossing a mile-prolonged slender way had been a fascinating encounter given that my university times. We could see the shallow sea on the two sides of the way, which is an extension of the Palk Strait connecting the Gulf of Mannar and the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean.
We could always see in the shallow seas, the sea-gulls, the Brahmin kites and other birds of distinctive kinds busily fishing all the time. Some of the large Brahmin-kites applied to relaxation on the top rated of fastened fishing nets everywhere in the sea. It was interesting to see their acquire off from the nets and I was shocked in my early university times how huge birds like them could uplift their bodies utilizing their wings.
When Torsten was sharing his expertise about his journey to Kayts, my thoughts went back again to the Dutch Sea Fort, which was developed by the Portuguese and then reconstructed by the Dutch in the sea off Kayts Islands.
The Portuguese not only produced Forts in the island but also in other components of Asia.
The Portuguese, Dutch, English, Danish, French even German and other European cultures and architecture greatly affected Asian art, culture and architecture and my maternal ancestors’ home in Kayts resembled that of a smaller Dutch Fort with inside gardens and substantial rectangular verandahs and corridors, which built me to ponder about the distinctive sorts of architecture.
Torsten was telling about the calming local climate of the Peninsula. As the Jaffna Peninsula sets a breeze from the Bay of Bengal and Indian sub-continent by its shut proximity, there is an result on the humidity, the weather and even on the monsoon process.
