New Delhi: In Around the World in Magnets –Sri Lanka , the island nation’s history and culture unfold through the small souvenir magnets that travellers carry home. Collected by Anthony Vipin Das during his travels across Sri Lanka, and developed into a book with co-author Vidushi Duggal, the magnets become windows into the country’s layered heritage.

Ranging from dancers to deities, tuk-tuks to turtles, the 100 magnets form a loose map of Sri Lanka’s stories. The book, launched on 2 December at the High Commission of Sri Lanka in Delhi, is part of a larger series. For the authors, people were as important as places, from hotel chefs cooking with ingredients “as fresh as the river flowing outside,” to residents sharing stories passed down through generations.

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