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Oct 3, 2017
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Articles, Biz News, English Videos, Sri Lanka Business News
Tagged Asia’s most beautiful railway line, By train across Sri Lanka, By train across Sri Lanka - Asia’s most beautiful railway line - The “Main Line” through tea plantations and jungle, then passes Buddhist temples and relics of the British Empire
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If you travel along Kandy Colombo road, turn off to Kirindiwela road. A few miles from there you would be surprised to see a restaurant that offers meals for just one price. You can eat as much as you like for just one price. Sounds not bad at all. There are plenty of choices as well. One morning we went there then there were milk rice, appa, pittu, string hoppers and pol roti and many more. I am sure Sri Lankans know exactly what I mean. I cannot name them all here so why not drop in there and see for yourself. They have extended their branches to Mount Lavinia as well. Then once we dropped in there for lunch, I couldn’t believe the choice of dishes and different kinds of rice available, just for one price. Now may be they have more branches as well. One thing, the takeaway ...
Read More →What, with the “same-sex” marriage controversy quickly coming to a head in Australia, I thought it necessary that our eLanka readers be given some. sort of insight into a 3-way love affair that , unlike the usual love affairs between boy & girl & boy & boy, or girl & girl, was strangely frowned upon in our modern Western Society & still is, believe it or not. “Same-Sex” love affairs have been going on since the year “dot”, The same applies to love affairs of “heterosexual” couples. In many other Countries, a man was permitted to have a “harem” with as many wives/or lovers as he could afford, half his bloody luck, but, generally having 3,4 & 5 way love affairs were strictly forbidden, but did that stop us ?, no, not on your Nelly, Kelly. As far as this writer was concerned, of course, they were strictly ...
Oct 2, 2017
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Articles, DESMOND KELLY
Tagged "THREE-WAY LOVE AFFAIR" by Desmond Kelly 'the Star of eLanka', Desmond Kelly, THREE-WAY LOVE AFFAIR
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The touring Indians beat Sri Lanka by six wickets to win the fifth and final One Day International played at the R.Premadasa Stadium, Khettarama, Colombo. Scores: Sri Lanka – 238 in 49.4 Overs (Thirimanne 67, Mathews 55, Tharanga 48, Bumrah 2/45, Chahal 1/36, Yadav 1/40) India – 239/4 in 46.3 Overs (Kohli 110no, Jadhav 63, Pandey 36, de Silva 1/29, Malinga 1/35, Fernando 1/40, Pushpakumara 1/40) India won the 5-match series 5-0. Player of the match: Bhuvneshwar Kumar (India) Player of the Series: Jasprit Bumrah (India) The touring Indians beat Sri Lanka by seven wickets to win the one and only T20 International played at the R.Premadasa Stadium, Khettarama, Colombo. Scores: Sri Lanka – 170/7 in 20 Overs (Munaweera 53, Priyanjan 40no, Dickwella 17, Chahal 3/43, Yadav 2/20, Kumar 1/36, Bumrah 1/38) India – 174/3 in 19.2 Overs (Kohli 82, Pandey 51no, Rahul 24, Prasanna 1/25, Malinga 1/31, Mathews1/33, Udana ...
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Oct 2, 2017
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Articles, Victor Melder
Tagged SRI LANKA CRICKET NEWS (SEPTEMBER 2017)-Compiled by Victor Melder, Victor Melder
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(Photo on left is of the interior of the church with the pew and baptismal font and a glimpse of the old Dutch chairs against the wall in the background. On the right is portrait of Dutch Governor Ryckloff Van Goens) Source: Sunday Island, October 1, 2017 That almost neglected but historic building in the Pettah, the Wolvendaal Church, is unique in many ways. It is one of the few buildings in Sri Lanka which link the Portuguese period of occupation of Sri Lanka right through the Dutch, and British periods, to independent Ceylon, and finally exists as a repository of culture of the Dutch who unsuccessfully sought to conquer the whole country. Some recent photographs show weather related damage to the exterior of the building, which seem to be receiving the attention of those who are in charge of The Dutch made their presence in Ceylon in 1640 with the ...
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Oct 2, 2017
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Articles
Tagged Hugh Karunanayake, THE WOLVENDAAL CHURCH, THE WOLVENDAAL CHURCH REVISITED - by Hugh Karunanayake
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VICTOR MELDER SRI LANKA LIBRARY 7, Benambra Street, Broadmeadows, Vic 3047, Australia. Telephone + 61 3 9309 4040 E-mail < melder.rjvm1935@bigpond.com > Web Site < www.vmsl-library.com > THOSE WISHING TO DONATE BOOKS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS TO THIS LIBRARY, PLEASE CONTACT ME AT ABOVE ADDRESS, BY EMAIL OR TELEPHONE. Thank You. ACQUISITIONS FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER 2017 BOOKS Ceylon Tea, The Trade That Made A Nation by Richard Simon, 2017. (Donated by Dr Rohan Pethiyagoda, Chairman, Ceylon Tea Board, Colombo, Sri Lanka) Fistful of Folly by E.C.T.Candappa, 2017 (Donated by Ms Nimmi Candappa, North Dandenong, Vic) MAGAZINES NEWSLETTERS “Outreach” Newsletter, Voluntary Outreach Club Inc (VOC), Melbourne. Burgher Association (Australia) Inc (BAA), September News Bulletin, Spring 2017. Burgher Association (Australia) Inc (BAA), Notice of Annual General Meeting 2017/2018 “The Harbinger”, Family Magazine, Australia / Sri Lanka Welfare Guild Inc (ASWG), Vol 42, No 4, August 2017. ...
Read More →“…that morning, I went to Rosmead Place. The Prime Minister was talking to another monk. I occupied a seat at the end of the veranda, and then he came up to me and inquired why I had come …I shot at the Prime Minister once. That shot struck him. He started running into the house. I followed behind him and fired three more bullets. Someone shot me as well and I lost consciousness. I do not remember what happened next.” – Ven. Thalduve Somarama—statement by 1st accused [from the dock.] The boy born to an anglophile Christian aristocratic family on January 8, 1899, was given the name, ‘West Ridgway’ after the Governor of Ceylon and his God father, Sir Joseph West Ridgeway. He was affectionately called ‘Solla’, by family elders and ‘Banda’ or SWRD by political colleagues and the press. West Ridgeway joined Christ Church College, Oxford in ...
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Oct 1, 2017
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Articles
Tagged S.W.R.D Bandaranaike’s 58th Death Anniversary, S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike
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