Dianne Lockhart was born in Kandy and grew up in Kurunegala, in idyllic surroundings, in the 1950s. Here she reminiscences about bringing up a leopard cub she named Poppaea. The rescue of this leopard ...

It had become a routine—Nelson sitting on the first-floor balcony of his house in Kalasa, gazing over his coffee plantation as dusk settled. His house stood in isolation, with no neighbours nearby.