PHOTO GALLERY: Sri Lanka Telugu community fears decline of traditional ways.
A Sri Lankan Telugu man holds his monkey performing tricks in a colony in Nachchikulama, Sri Lanka, Monday, June 8, 2020. Sri Lanka's Telugu community, whose nomadic lifestyle has increasingly clashed with the modern world, is facing another threat that could hasten its decline: the COVID-19 pandemic.
Members of the smallest ethnic community in the country who speak Telugu language of South Indian origin did not have permanent addresses until 1981, when the government built them villages from where they traveled to make money by staging snake and monkey performances and offering palm reading.“Now we can’t practice our job. Police and public health inspectors have told us not to get out of the village,” said Engatennage Podi Mahattaya, the village headman.
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