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Hathurusinghe’s task for Sri Lanka revival is compelling BY TREVINE RODRIGO IN MELBOURNE Chandika Hathurusinghe came as a ‘Messiah’ that would deliver redemption for Sri Lanka Cricket, but his initial foray with a listless team devoid of motivation has reminded Sri Lanka’s cricket fans worldwide that it will take time and patience to turn things around for the once feared nation. Jayawardena and Sangakkara hard to replace Proof of how bad the team has slumped to is in the evidence that former minnows and whipping boys of the game such as Zimbabwe and Bangladesh are now looking at the former ‘kings’ of the limited over format with callous disdain as they push them to the verge of elimination in a one-day tri-series in Bangladesh. If this tournament was a test of who the new cellar dwellers of the game are, Sri Lanka have by now shown the world a worrying ...

Jan 22, 2018 Posted by In Articles, Home Tagged Comments 0
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ROCK THIS COUNTRY AND REPLAY 6 PROPEL MELBOURNE INTO 2018 IN GRAND STYLE BY TREVINE RODRIGO IN MELBOURNE Rock this Country were a great set up. Replay 6 with Marlon Amarasekera. One of Melbourne’s best. Marlon Amarasekera thrills Melbourne on New Year’s eve at the Grand on Cathies Lane. Rap-So-D. Very popular Melbourne dance band Chris Mant, Lozaine Paul and Linden Boustead with Cloud 9 at the Walawwa. Melbourne ushered in 2018 with a spate of dinner dances and several other celebratory functions that found little or no parallel to the Sri Lankan events among Australian migrants Down Under. Of course the biggest crowd puller on this day is in the Melbourne city precinct where a fantastic fireworks display highlights the dawning of the New Year and hundreds of thousands of Melburnians flock to the city to watch the pyrotechnic spectacle unfold for several hours. The Grand on Cathies Lane ...

Jan 22, 2018 Posted by In Articles, Home Tagged Comments 0
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My experience growing ‘Karapuncha’ Written by Dr Harold Gunatillake-health writer   We have a tall Karapuncha tree planted in a big pot on the balcony, giving us enough curry leaves during summer months. During winter the leaves fall off and the tree goes into hibernation.  Three months ago, to my delight I saw an offspring shooting up. When it was about 5 inches tall, I thought it was best to grow it in a separate pot to offer it to a friend. So, I separated the soil from the solitary root carefully, and when I saw the lateral minor roots, I cut it below and the sibling was planted in a separate pot, nurtured carefully spraying water daily, and keeping in a semi-shade position. Some fertilizer was mixed in the potting mixture The offspring remained healthy as the picture shows, but did not grow taller as expected, even after giving all ...

Jan 22, 2018 Posted by In Articles, Dr harold Gunatillake Tagged Comments 0
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Man’s Best Friends By Desmond Kelly ‘the Star of eLanka’     The well-known phrase used to be in the singular, as far as “friends”was concerned, and they still are. Dogs of all sizes, breeds, temperaments, whatever, once you are “owned” by one, he/she is still quite possibly, the best companion man could ever have, and I talk from personal experience. I have had many dogs, male & female, during my life, until now. My biggest regret is, that because of a medical condition, and because of my “old-age”, I am not able to keep any pets at all, as if you have a pet, they rely on you to look after them. I have had, and trained, several German Shepherds, used them for my work as a Security Officer, have had about three of them as personal “pets” at home, in Melbourne, I have even “owned” a Great Dane, ...

Jan 17, 2018 Posted by In Articles, DESMOND KELLY Tagged Comments 0
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ALERIC’S MILK-SHAKE-DUCK by Desmond Kelly ‘the Star of eLanka’ That is how silly the present Media is getting, folks. The Milk-Shake Duck going viral, and, serve them right, they ARE racist, because they forgot (on purpose)to mention Sri Lanka’s “Aleric”s”, without any doubt, whatsoever, the BEST Milk-Shake-Makers in the World, where, on exceptionally special occasions, this writer would share one, with one of the most beautiful girls of the 50’s era (from Ceylon, of course), after “cutting-College” (St.Peter’s of Bambalapitiya), making a bee-line for the ” Holy Family Convent”, also in Bambalapitiya, in the early PM, to help her carry her books, walk together on the beach, until we arrived at Kinross Avenue, which led up to the Galle Road, cross over, turn left, and there you are, Aleric’s. Nobody knew HER then, nobody knew ME either, but, had her father caught me there with her I would quite possibly ...

Jan 17, 2018 Posted by In Articles, DESMOND KELLY, Everlasting songs Tagged Comments 0
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DAVID AND GOLIATH by Bernard VanCuylenburg.

DAVID AND GOLIATH by Bernard VanCuylenburg. During the colonial period of the lat 1930’s, a tea plantation in the Madulkelle district Relugas Estate, was the place where what appeared to be a simple act of insubordination by an assistant superintendent, was to have far reaching consequences and wider ramifications not only for the company concerned, but for the colonial government of the time and a left leaning socialist political party called the “Lanka Sama Samaja Party”, (The Lanka Socialist Party) popularly known as the LSSP. The “David” in this case was a young assistant superintendent named Mark Bracegirdle and the “Goliath” was the government of the day – at first glance an uneven match. The Superintendent of this particular estate Mr.H.D.Thomas was badly in need of an assistant, and he petitioned the company accordingly. As was the modus operandum of the day, a young Englishman Mark Bracegirdle was recruited from ...

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Jan 17, 2018 Posted by In Articles, DESMOND KELLY, Uncategorized Tagged Comments 0
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