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My thoughts on the movie 800 – By Sanjeewa Jayaweera Source : island I decided to patronize a cinema after several years to watch a movie. I am glad I did so because the film brought back happy memories of Muttiah Muralitharan, the spinning wizard and, in my opinion, the greatest cricketer Sri Lanka has produced. The movie 800 is about the life and cricketing career of Muarli. It is aptly titled 800 in recognition of the number of wickets Murali claimed in test matches during his illustrious career, which spanned from 1992 to 2010. His tally of wickets in test cricket is a world record that, in all probability, might never be surpassed, just as much as Sir Donald Bradman’s test batting average of 99.96 runs per innings. Initially, I was a bit worried about the movie’s length, which is 150 minutes, which I felt might be a bit long ...

Nov 8, 2023 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged Arjuna Ranatunga, cinema, Cricketer in 1991, cricketer Sri Lanka, cricketing career of Muarli, movie

Maxwell pyrotechnics sink dumbfounded Afganistan – One of the best knocks in World Cup history. – By TREVINE RODRIGO IN ELBOURNE. (eLanka Sports editor) Wankhede stadium in Mumbai has not seen pyrotechnics of this kind since India beat Sri Lanka in the 2011 World Cup final, but this time it came from the bat of Australian freak Glenn Maxwell who smashed a memorable double century to sink Afganistan. The Maxwell fireworks came at a time when Australia had their backs to the wall and appeared to be heading for another certain shock result in the World Cup. He came to the crease with Australia tottering at 91 for 7 and left after a whirlwind innings that left the crowd and a numbed Afganistan in disbelief, as Australia scampered to victory with 19 balls remaining. This innings by Maxwell will rate as the greatest ever in a World Cup and those ...

Nov 8, 2023 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Trevine Rodrigo Tagged Australia vs Afganistan, Cricket News, ICC World Cup, TREVINE RODRIGO, World Cup

Bangladesh and questionable umpiring make for a sad day in cricketing history. Sr Lanka bow out of World Cup. – BY TREVINE RODRIGO IN MELBOURNE. (Elanka Sports Editor). Shakib Al Hassan and Marias Erasmus sensationally made cricketing history by making a blotch on the Spirit of Cricket adding insult to injury to Sri Lanka who confirmed their exit from the World Cup with a three wicket loss. The combine brought back bizarre memories of the 1980’s when Austrlian Umpires Darrell Hair and Ross Emerson took centre stage by embarrassing Sri Lanka’s greatest bowler Mutthiah Muralitharan, by calling him for chucking. It was a ruling they lived to regret. There were other unsavoury incidents involving Mankad and Trevor Chappell that would be best forgotten, then there was this. Angelo Matthews was given “timed out” without facing a ball while calling for another helmet when the strap on the one he had, broke. ...

Nov 8, 2023 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Trevine Rodrigo Tagged "CRICKET, Angelo Matthews, Cricket News, ICC, Marias Erasmus, Mutthiah Muralitharan, Shakib Al Hassan, TREVINE RODRIGO, wicket loss, World Cup 2023

Anula Ratnayaka, 49: Sri Lankan caregiver hid her elderly client – By TOI STAFF Anula Ratnayaka (Facebook) After working in Israel for a decade with families who considered her one of their own, she was murdered in Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7 Anula Ratnayaka, 49, spent 10 years as a caregiver in Israel before she was murdered by Hamas terrorists in the October 7 assault on Kibbutz Be’eri. The Sri Lanka Daily News reported that Anula was shot dead after managing to hide Ettie Morado, the Israeli woman she was taking care of. The report stated that “the elderly woman of the house who was rescued has said, ‘I am blind. Anula was my eyes. She hid me under the bed and went forward to see what was happening.’” On October 28, Anula’s body was repatriated to Sri Lanka and was buried in the north Colombo suburb of Kelaniya, India Today reported. In ...

Nov 8, 2023 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged Anula Ratnayaka, Israel war, Kelaniya, Sri Lankan in Israel

Shakib has Sullied the Spirit of Cricket – By Michael Roberts Source : thuppahis In my experience from the late 1960s Errol Fernando of Trinity College & Peradeniya University was the fairest of men and one possessing considerable acumen (besides virtuoso fingers at organ and piano) …… Errol Fernando to Lawrence Heyn, 6 November 2023 Dear Lawrence, Am I allowed to say that the ONLY game that has this thing called ‘Spirit’ is CRICKET? May I add that all other games merely have ‘rules’ but no spirit. Is there a spirit of rugby, golf, football, tennis – even gudu or marbles ? Cricket has rules, of course, but what makes cricket the ‘greatest’ of games is that spirit that is far more important than rules. Anyone who disagrees with this should not be playing cricket. Alex Carey infamously abused the spirit at Lord’s. I am more than happy to say that Carey should not be ...

Nov 7, 2023 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Michael Roberts Tagged "CRICKET, Errol Fernando, Peradeniya University, TRINITY COLLEGE

Ruvendrini Menikdiwela in Key UNHCR Role – By Michael Roberts Source : thuppahis News Item: “Secretary-General appoints Ms. Ruvendrini Menikdiwela of Sri Lanka as Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Ruvendrini Menikdiwela of Sri Lanka as Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Ms. Menikdiwela will succeed Gillian Triggs of Australia, to whom both the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner for Refugees are grateful for her dedicated service to the refugee cause. Ms. Menikdiwela, who currently serves as the Director in UNHCR’s New York Office, brings to the position several decades of professional experience working with and for refugees in UNHCR, including as UNHCR’s Representative in Pakistan and in Thailand. She also held a number of other critical legal posts during her long career with ...

Nov 7, 2023 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Michael Roberts Tagged UNHCR, United Nations High Commissioner

WAR- A- LUDICRACY – By Oscar E V Fernando Peter, Paul and Mary – Where Have All the Flowers Gone (25th Anniversary Concert) With billions of people inhabiting planet earth-it will not be an exaggeration to say that there will be as many opinions as there are inhabitants; Dictionary defines the word opinion as a view held as probable and one can therefore conclude that a dispute on a probability leading to a quarrel-fisticuff-battle or war-is ludicrous to say the least: it will only reveal the egoism of two persons that eventually spreads into formation of parties carrying venomous slogans-leading to a brutal war-thus two can cause a World War!! Even at this very moment are we not sliding into an imminent World War? The two concerned politicians will of course justify it so as to continue their reign and power and most of them on the battle field would only ...

Nov 7, 2023 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Oscar Fernando Tagged Flowers Gone, Mary, Oscar E V Fernando, Paul, Peter

ජපන් සංස්කෘතියේ ,බළල් පරපුරේ අසිරිමත් භූමිකාව. – By ආචාර්ය ගාමිණී කාරියවසම් බළලුන් සහ ජපන් ජාතිකයින් අතර පවත්නා ආත්මීය සබඳතාව දිගු ඉතිහාසයකට උරුමකම් කියයි. වසර දහස් ගණනකට ඉහත සිට, බළලා ගේ උණුසුම ජපන් සමාජයට නැතිවම බැරිවූ මානසික අවශ්‍යතාවක් වූ සෙයකි. ජපන් සංස්කෘතියේ විශාල කාර්යභාරයක් සපුරන බළලුන්, ආරක්ෂාව,විචක්ෂණ භාවය සහ වාසනාව සංකේතවත් කරයි ශත වර්ෂ කිහිපයකට පෙර බළලුන් ඇති කිරීමේ අවසරය පැවැතියේ අධිරාජ්‍ය පවුලේ සාමාජිකයන් හෝ වංශවතුන් වැනි ඉහළ පෙළේ පුද්ගලයින්ට පමණි. පසු කාලයේදී බළලුන් සාමාන්‍ය මිනිසුන් අතර ද ජනප්‍රියත්වයට පත් විය. ජපානයේ කලාව, සාහිත්‍යය සහ සංස්කෘතිය තුළ බළලා නිතැතින්ම මහත් ඇඟයුමට බඳුන් වන සත්වයෙකි. විශේෂයෙන් එඩෝ යුගයේදී (1603-1868) ප්‍රසිද්ධ චිත්‍ර ශිල්පීන්ගේ සිතුවම් සදහා මෙන්ම නවකතාවන් සදහා බළලා ප්‍රධාන තේමාවක් ලෙස යොදා ගැනිණි. නූතන ජපන් සාහිත්‍යයේ ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨතම ලේඛකයෙක් ලෙස සම්මානිත කෙන්ජි මියසාවා (1896 – 1933) නම් ලේඛකයා විසින් බළලෙකුගේ දෘෂ්ටිකෝණයෙන් සමාජයේ හැසිරීම් රටාවන් විමසුමට ලක් කෙරෙන “ මම පුසෙකි “ නමින් අපුර්වත්වයෙන් අනූන නවකතාවක් සහ “සිහින රාත්‍රී දහය සහ පුසාගේ සුසානය “ ...

Nov 7, 2023 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Dr. Gamini Kariyawasam Tagged japanese cats

RUVENDRINI MENIKDIWELA Image Source: unhcr Ruven Menikdiwela is currently serving as the UNHCR Representative in Pakistan, to which function she was appointed in September 2017. Prior to taking up her assignment in Pakistan, she was the UNHCR Representative in Thailand. Ms. Menikdiwela’s career with UNHCR spans over 27 years and includes a range of functions both at UNHCR Headquarters as well as its country operations in Thailand (where she also served previously in 1993), Turkmenistan, and the United States. Ms. Menikdiwela obtained her LLB and her LLM in European Community and Public International Law from the University of Paris II. She is fluent in English and French. Functions with UNHCR Sept 2017 UNHCR Representative in Pakistan 2015 – 2017 UNHCR Representative in Thailand 2011 – 2015 Head, Investigation Service, Inspector General’s Office, UNHCR Headquarters,Geneva 2007 – 2011 Deputy Director, Division of International protection, UNHCR Headquarters, Geneva 2004 – 2007 ...

Nov 7, 2023 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged Ruven Menikdiwela, UNHCR