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Great Days of Colombo, the story of our big city-by Ifham Nizam Source:Island ‘The Great Days of Colombo’ by Assif Hussein was released recently. This profusely illustrated and compelling work tells the story of how Colombo grew from very small beginnings as a simple Moorish port to become what it is today, a bustling city full of life and colour. The evolution of the city is traced in much detail and its rich history vividly described with stories of war, horror and pillage that followed European colonialism and then the rapid growth of the city under Western domination. Colombo was in a sense a meeting point of East and West and a melting pot which attracted people of many nations to come here and call it home. The story of Colombo is in short, the story of a modern nation in the making. The Great Days of Colombo brings this ...