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UNIQUE SRI LANKA LIBRARY An unique library on Sri Lanka, perhaps the only one of its kind overseas, exists in Melbourne, Australia. This library was begun by Victor Melder in 1968, when he migrated to Australia. Victor, who had only one book with him then, has today accumulated over 7,00 books, 2000 magazines and journals and a collection of video and audio tapes all on Sri Lanka. Victor, who grew up in a village in Peradeniya, states he has savoured village life to its fullest and attributes this to be the cause of his unpretentious love for his motherland. This love, admiration and respect for this beautiful island is something he wishes to share with everyone alike in Australia. This is what gave birth to the ‘Victor Melder Sri Lanka Library’, which today is used by many Australiawide, as a primary source of reference on Sri Lanka. In 1968, Victor ...
Oct 2, 2023
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ICC World Cup squads announced Source:Dailynews The ten countries have finalised their squads for the ICC Cricket World Cup on Thursday (28). The matches will commence from October 5. India team led by Rohit Sharma will be looking to become the fourth consecutive host nation to win the tournament, a run which began when they lifted the trophy themselves in 2011. Defending champions England, welcome back Ben Stokes, who has come out of ODI retirement as his side look to retain the trophy, while Kane Williamson will be hoping to win his fitness battle having been named to lead 2019 runners-up New Zealand. Last edition’s runner-ups, New Zealand will meet England in the opening game at Ahmedabad on October 5 and the final will be played at the same venue on November 19. Each team will play nine group stage matches before the semi-finals and all teams are expected to ...
Oct 1, 2023
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eLanka Newsletter – 1st October 2023 – 1st Edition Sri Lankans in Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter Sri Lanka women claim Silver in Asian Games Cricket – BY TREVINE RODRIGO IN MELBOURNE – (eLanka Sports editor) Three Muscateers In Canada Play Pivotal Role at Connection 55 Silver Jubilee Dance on Friday Sep 22 2023 – By Perry & Yas Danushka Gunathilaka’s Travails Over: Free to Cricket … so to speak – By Michael Roberts ජගත් වැඩිහිටි දිනය – By ආචාර්ය ගාමිණී කාරියවසම් Coconut- an Asian dietary essentialwas bashed again by Western researchers, despite its increasing popularity in the West. – By Dr Harold Gunatillake Danushka At Cricket: Beyond the Couplings – By Michael Roberts Joe – Pete Cricket game in Sydney September 2023 UDDIKA AWARD WINNING ACTOR,VOCALIST ,MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT WITH A UNIQUE VISION FOR A FRESH EPOCH – By Sunil ...
Oct 1, 2023
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The Dutch Fort in Gurunagar, Jaffna – By Michael Roberts Source : thuppahis MAR Manukulasooriya, in the Sunday Observer, 1 October 2023 with this title “A distinctive Dutch archaeological site in South-East Asia” The Jaffna Fort is near the coastal village of Gurunagar [within the Jaffna Peninsula]. It was built by the Portuguese in 1619 under Phillippe de Oliveira as a four-sided garrison with ramparts, corner bastions and moats following the Portuguese invasion of Jaffna. The Dutch captured it in 1658 and expanded it to a pentagon shaped with lime stones and coral stones, inner fortifications, ramparts, corner bastions and star shaped moats. The Dutch Fort occupies 62 acres. Its base is 40 feet width and it has a slope of 20 feet width parapet walls. There were five ramparts, artillery fortifications, a protestant church, a prison, Queen’s palace, administrative hubs and 21 dug wells. There are three draw bridges between the outer fortifications ...
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Bradman at Brockton Oval in Vancouver in 1932 during Australian North American Tour-by Michael Roberts Source:Thuppahis “The Brockton Oval in Vancouver hosts an over-40s league game. Did you know that Don Bradman once described the ground as “without question the most beautiful ground in the world”?” …. https://twitter.com/espncricinfo/status/1034432962530488321 … and, as it happens, one of the Curators at this ground at one point in the ltter half of the 20th century was a Sri Lankan migrant and cricket buff named CJ Van Twest (whose Ceylon news cutting in 1957 have been recently featured in this site: https://thuppahis.com/2023/09/22/cjs-cricket-news-cuttings-in-1957-ceylon-the-cricket-world/ The location in Vancouver …. AND …. some pictures of cricket in progress there during the Canadian summer A picture of Bradman in North America For FURTHER DATA, visit these sites among many possibilities https://cricketique.live/2012/12/26/don-bradmans-north-american-tour-opens-up-on-film/ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7802445-the-don-meets-the-babe …. AND ….. https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/362387v …. “The Don meets the babe : the 1932 Australian cricket tour of North America / Ric Sessions ...
Beyond & Behind the Cricket: The World Cup Scenario in 1996 from An Insider-by Michael Roberts Source:Thuppahis Mark Nicholas, in ESPNcricinfo, on 20 September 2023, with this title: “From Lahore to Madras at the 1996 World Cup, in cargo planes, delayed trains and on elephants” …. with highlights imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi Aah, the 1996 World Cup. That was something. Chaos often reigned, characters thankfully shone, and underdogs did things that only a short time previously would have seemed impossible, even to them. Across five memorable weeks, the bewildering and the beguiling; the controversial and the constructive; the surprising and the satisfying chased us around three countries – India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka – whose honour it was to host the tournament and whose operational skills were tested to the limit by events and circumstance that frequently beggared belief. There were planes, trains, automobiles and elephants; red forts, pink cities and marble palaces; tuk-tuks, rickshaws ...
Oct 1, 2023
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It’s nearly time to put clocks forward an hour. Where did daylight saving come from? Source:Theage Attention body clock: it’s time to lose an hour for one day and gain evenings that are lighter, warmer and more inviting throughout summer. At 2am on October 1, the clocks jump forward an hour for most Australian states. The time stays this way until April. Changes like this happen in more than 70 countries across the globe – but daylight saving has always been a bit controversial, with debates simmering from time to time in parts of the world. In Australia, a new survey has rebooted the debate in states without it. Preliminary results show two-thirds of Queenslanders say they’d support daylight saving while slightly less in Western Australia would be on board with change. So, how does daylight saving work? How does it impact people and animals? And does it really work? ...
