Surprise Dinner to fete Sriyan Jayasekera convenor of the Class of 59 at S Thomas College Mount Lavinia in Sri Lanka, Circa 2002 for his dedication and consistent efforts to help us celebrate and renew friendships forged in the school by the sea Download the PDF file . ...
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Sri Lanka becomes a cricketing tragedy. Suspension adds insult to injury in its worst World Cup – BY TREVINE RODRIGO IN MELBOURNE (eLanka Sports editor) The saying, “when it rains, it pours”, got true relevance if you look at the current plight of Sri Lanka cricket. Quadruple setbacks from just one outing at the World Cup appears at this stage just the tip of the iceberg, with a rash of more repercussions on its way to the beleaguered nation. They first endured the Matthews controversy, suffered the worst campaign at a World Cup, then got suspended by the ICC and now have been eliminated from the forthcoming Champions Trophy. While reeling from those setbacks, there’s a legal stoush looming over matters relating to the World Cup as legal experts try to decipher appropriate battle plans with the country’s cricket administration. They also have to figure out how to deal with ...
Nov 15, 2023
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Articles, Trevine Rodrigo
Tagged cricketing world, ICC, Sri Lanka Cricket, Sri Lanka Cricket Board, World Cup
Two jumbos drown in causeway Source:Dailymirror KUDA OYA (Daily MIrror) – Two wild elephants that fell into the Kirindi Oya and drifted away by floods had jammed in a causeway and drowned. The carcasses were recovered yesterday by the villagers in Thululla in Kudaoya. Wildlife conservators, who rushed to the scene on information of the residents of the area, lifted the carcasses onto the bank with a backhoe. They said one of the jumbos was six feet tall and about 30 years of age and the other six feet tall and about 25 years of age. ...
Health authorities across Australia call for return of masks amid eighth COVID wave Source:Dailymirror Health authorities in several Australian states have recommended the return of masks amid a spike in COVID-19 cases leading up to Christmas. Virus cases recently spiked 23.6 per cent across the country and experts say we are entering an eighth wave of infections. In NSW, more than 11 per cent of PCR tests came back positive in the two weeks to November 4 and the state’s health department warned “COVID-19 cases are increasing”. “Emergency department presentations for COVID-19 increased across most age groups, particularly young children and those aged 65 years and older,” the department’s latest respiratory surveillance report said. On X (formerly Twitter) people have been asked to consider wearing a mask in crowded indoor areas and to ensure they stay on top of other “everyday habits” followed strictly at the height of the pandemic — including ...
The WG St Clair Musical Orchestra in Ceylon, 1930-by Hugh Karunanayake Source:Thuppahis Western music in Sri Lanka today is a broad musical canvas encompassing many musical genres such as the classics, pop, jazz, rock and roll etc. It is indeed a live entity drawing musicians of talent to meet the unceasing demand from an ever-growing audience. Sri Lanka [today] boasts a formidable musical culture which seems to be institutionalised and embedded within all classes and ethnicities. At the turn of the twentieth century however, the musical scene was either non-existent or bleak enough to be relegated into the backwoods of social activity. The intervention which sparked off the change could be attributed to the efforts of two persons: Major and Mrs WG St Clair. Their names may not even evoke a nod of recognition in contemporary Sri Lanka, but in the 1920s and 30s, they were names to conjure with. ...
Nov 14, 2023
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Articles, Hugh Karunanayake
Tagged Audrey Dharmakirti Peiris, Laurette de Zilwa, Lennie Sandrasagara
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Lakshman Wickremasinghe’s Allround Excellence at Royal College in 1944-by Michael Roberts Source:Thuppahis Lam Seneviratne: Email Note to Michael Roberts, 12 November 2023 The recent articles by you and Rajiva Wijesinha in connection of the 40th death anniversary of Bishop Lakshman Wickremasinghe are great tributes to him. They speak of him as a Priest, Chaplain and Bishop, his human qualities and how he lived his life as a true disciple of Jesus Christ, touching the lives of many. ...
Nov 14, 2023
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Articles, Michael Roberts
Tagged Lakshman Wickremasinghe, Rajiva Wijesinha, Royal College
ග්‍රීක දෙවගනකගේ දෙවොලේ අනුරුවක් ආශ්‍රයෙන් කොළොම්පුර ඉදිකළ අභිමානවත් ගොඩනැගිල්ල. – By ආචාර්ය ගාමිණී කාරියවසම්. ගාලුමුවදොර, කොළඹ කොටුව දෙසට වන්නට පිහිටි, අභිමානවත් ගොඩනැගිල්ල , ඇතැන්ස්හි ඇක්‍රොපොලිස් කඳුකරයේ,යුද්ධයට අධිපති ග්‍රීක දෙවගන ඇතීනාගේ ප්‍රධාන දේවාලයේ ආකෘතියට අනුකූලව ඉදිකරන ලද්දක් බව අප්‍රකට පුවතකි. එනමුදු ,එය පුර්ණ සත්‍යයක් බව ඉපැරණි ලේඛන මගින් මැනවින් සනාථ කෙරේ . ඇතීනා යනු ප්‍රඥාවේ සහ යුද්ධයේ ඔලිම්පික් දේවතාවිය වන අතර ඇය ගේ නම නිර්මාණයවී ඇත්තේ ඇතන්ස් නගරය මුල් කර ගෙනය. තේජාන්විත සහ නිර්භීත පෙනුමක් ඇය කෙරෙන් දිස්වේ . සියලුම ග්‍රීක වීරයන් ඇයගෙන් උපකාර සහ උපදෙස් ලබා ,විශිෂ්ඨ ජයග්‍රහණයන් ලබා ඇති බැව්පැ වසේ.ඇතීනාගේ නිරූපණය සහ සංකේතවාදය තුළින් මතුවන්නේ බලය සහ අධිකාරය විකාශනය කරන තේජාන්විත දෙවගනකගේ ස්වරූපයයි. ඇය සෑම විටම සම්පූර්ණ සන්නාහයකින් සැරසී , එක් අතකින් දිගු හෙල්ලයක් සහ අනෙක් අතින් පලිහක් දරා සිටී .ඇතීනාගේ පලිහට ඇගේ සතුරන් ගල් බවට පත් කළ හැකි බව ග්‍රීක ජාතිකයින්ගේ විශ්වාසයයි. ප්‍රඥාවේ සංකේතයක් ලෙස,බකමුණු පක්ෂියෙක් ඇතීනාගේ උරහිස මත දිස්වේ. යුද්ධයට අධිපති ඇතීනා ග්‍රීක දෙවගන, ලිපිය ආරම්භයේ ...
Is our cricket going the same way as West Indies cricket? – By Sanjeewa Jayaweera Source : island Until 1977, when Kerry Packer set up the World Series Cricket (WSC) tournament, Australia and England took turns to hold the mantle of being the world’s top test-playing team; during this period, the West Indies did, on occasions, challenge the order of supremacy but were never able to be consistently good. The Indians and Pakistanis were competitive when playing at home but could not defeat the Australians in Australia. All that changed in 1979 when the Australian and English Boards and the ICC made peace with Kerry Packer. The West Indies team that emerged post the WSC were to dominate world cricket for nearly a decade and a half as they possessed a conveyor belt of fast bowlers and some brilliant batsmen. When playing in the WSC tournament, the West Indies team under ...
