My partner and I are planning out a short comic around the Sri Lankan ghost story, Mahasona (my partner is from Sri Lanka).

These are a few sketches I did related to that.

We decided Gotaimbara is a good cook - that's not necessarily canon. Also, we weren't sure what Gotaimbara's wife's name was, so we named her "Puthama" after my partner's grandmother.

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20 years after the Indian Ocean tsunami, a boy found in the mud embraces being known as "Baby 81."

@AssociatedPress reports: "Jayarasa Abilash’s story symbolized that of the families torn apart by one of the worst natural calamities in modern history, but it also offered hope. More than 35,000 people in Sri Lanka were killed, with others missing."

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20 years after Indian Ocean tsunami, boy found in mud embraces being known as 'Baby 81'

The boy once known as “Baby 81,” who was pulled from the mud as an infant after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 and reunited with his parents following an emotional court battle, is now a 20-year-old dreaming of higher education.

^{KRISHAN FRANCIS (AP News)}