COLOMBO - Sri Lanka's state energy provider sought divine intervention on Thursday to break a crippling power shortage, dispatching envoys to the country's north to offer holy water to a tree sacred to Buddhists.
In the hope of provoking much-needed rain, the Ceylon Electricity Board said it would offer alms to the Sri Maha Bodi, a tree in Anuradhapura revered by the island's Buddhists. The tree is so revered in the Buddhist-majority country of 21 million that it is guarded round-the-clock by heavily armed security forces.
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