In a Hamlet Built on Forbidden Love, a Cyclone Buried It All NYT | Top Stories By: Mujib Mashal, Pamodi Waravita and Atul Loke 13 December 2025 at 05:00 Three generations of a family built their homes and lives in Sri Lanka’s highland tea country. The biggest storm in decades wiped out their hamlet in a landslide. Villagers carrying bodies for burial at a cemetery in Kandy in Sri Lanka.