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100 years at Mount: St. Thomas’ College principal speaks 26th January 2018   STC celebrates 100 years at Mount Lavinia by: Zahrah Imtiaz Bishop of Colombo Rt. Rev. Dhiloraj Canagasabey joins Warden Rev’d Marc Billimoria and former Wardens Dr. David Ponniah and Prof. Indra de Zoysa in cutting the 100 year anniversary cake. Pictures by Saman Sri Wedage The school by the sea; S. Thomas’ College yesterday celebrated 100 years since it started life in Mount Lavinia, having moved there from Mutwal on January 26, 1918. The school celebrated this important milestone with a special mass held at the College chapel, the rededication of the two original buildings, a blessing of the newest building for the Lower School and a ceremonial general assembly with the participation of all the students in the school for the first time in its history. The special mass was celebrated by Bishop of Colombo Rt. ...

Jan 26, 2018 Posted by In Articles, Biz News, English Videos, Home Tagged Comments 0
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“AUSTRALIAN OF THE YEAR 2018” by Desmond Kelly ‘the Star of eLanka’ “The A.B.C”.,.to the fore, once again, supported by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, bringing you, the members of eLanka an “on-line” account of what I would term, a most prestigious “Annual-Event” that duly recognises persons chosen by their peers for spectacular achievements carried out for nothing other than making this huge multicultural Continent a better place for EVERYONE HERE, to live in. On purpose, I do not intend to “detail” the names and achievements of 32 different “contenders” for this “title”, I would probably have to keep writing until 2019 to complete “that”, anyway, all the names & achievements of these wonderful people will be in the early morning newspapers of tomorrow, the 26th of January, 2018, Australia-Day & the holiday it entails. However, let me start with the “name” of the holiday. As every eLankan (Lankan/Aussie) should ...

Jan 25, 2018 Posted by In Articles, DESMOND KELLY, Home Tagged Comments 0
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“WE’LL MEET AGAIN” by Desmond Kelly ‘the Star of eLanka’ We’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t when,  But I’m sure we’ll meet again, some sunny day, was a good old song (featured), currently, to announce that our Prime Minister, Mr.Malcolm Turnbull is about to meet, for the second time, in person, the President of the U.S.A., Mr.Donald Trump, and we do know that it will be in the White-House, on the 23rd of February, 2018 (this year). What the weather will be, on that particular day, I haven’t a clue, at the moment, because I have not been able to google the long-range weather forecast as yet, hopefully, it will be a “sunny day”. Why am I writing this ?, you ask. Well, I’ll tell you. They met, for the first time, if you remember, folks, to simply discuss the initial “telephone conversation” that took place between them, where the President ended the ...

Jan 25, 2018 Posted by In Articles, DESMOND KELLY Tagged Comments 0
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Alston Koch is the Star of Christmas in Colombo A very pleased Prime Minister in a public gesture made a special presentation to Alston Koch (photo).​​ ​Alston Koch’s star shone brightly, but this time in Sri Lanka during Christmas and as The President’s House opened its doors to celebrate Christmas with people from all religions. Alston was flown down by Srilankan Airlines and invited for performances of Christmas Carols at Temple Trees for the Prime Minister and The President at President’s House by Sri Lanka Tourism Minister John Amaratunge.  Alston Koch was also a privileged guest at the opening of ‘Christmas Street’ hosted by Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Authority & was hosted at the Kingsbury Hotel.  Dinesh Weerakody, advisor to the Prime Minister met Alston Koch in London at the British Writer’s Guild Awards & invited him to headline the festivities for Christmas 2017. KOCH – the Star this Christmas (Source: Island) December 25, ...

Jan 21, 2018 Posted by In Articles, Home Tagged Comments 0
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“DREAM-WORLD” (Revisited) By Desmond Kelly ‘the Star of eLanka’      The song is well-known, as is the “Songwriter”,who got into the habit of writing songs for “special girlfriends”simply because “presents”(decent ones), were too expensive to buy, in Ceylon at the time, and, although it got him into trouble, sometimes, this did not cost him anything at all. “Dream-World” was written by this songwriter at the birth of the fabulous 1950’s at number 38 Lorensz Road, Bambalapitiya, in Colombo, after this enamoured young man who was 15 at the time, had met this beautiful 14 year old girl who lived at number 10, on the same road. He had a dream one night, about this same young lass & the rest was easy. It was just after midnight, & while he had never studied the “theory” of music, “tunes” would come into his head, and he would then compose the ...

Jan 21, 2018 Posted by In Articles, DESMOND KELLY, English Videos, Everlasting songs Comments 0
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