‘Rajans’ Picnic combined with Sinhala & Tamil New Year Celebrations-by Harold Gunatillake Transcript: Amidst our hectic schedules and busy lives, the Rajans meaning the old Pupils of Dharmaraja College the premier Buddhist school, Kandy, Sri Lanka, living in Sydney, grouped together, with their families, at the Nurrangingy reserve in Doonside, a faraway suburb of Sydney for a picnic and barbe party, with their families, to coincide with the Sinhala & Tamil New Year which fell on the 14th April, every year. As you are aware this Buddhist School was established on 30 June 1887 and the founder was Col Henry Steel Olcott, philanthropist from New York who visited Ceylon to obtain further studies on Buddhism. ...