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YEVIN SAMARARATNE Sri Lanka born young Golf prodigy from Brisbane – well placed at the Sri Lanka Golf Open Championships 2023 – By Sunil Thenabadu YEVIN SAMARARATNE Sri Lanka born young Golf prodigy in Brisbane is placed ninth in overhaul standings beating many fancied players.The Final round for the 30 elected for the squad will play today to determine the final standings in this gruelling event at the Sri Lankan Open Golf Championships 2023 which is telecast live by Dialog.Along with many experienced local golfers many professional players from countries like USA,Nepal, Singapore,India,Pakistan,Singapore,Japan,Maldives etc are participating Yevin is representing Australia in this tournament. The scorecard of the players is attached Sunil Thenabadu in Brisbane… ...

Jun 2, 2023 Posted by In Articles, Sunil Thenabadu Tagged ,
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DAYARATNE PERERA INCOMPARABLE INIMITABLE MUSICIAN CUM VOCALIST IN AN EFFERVERSCENT VOYAGE FOR WELL OVER FOUR DECADES – by Sunil Thenabadu Pathirage Dayaratne Perera popularly known as Dayaratne Perera is a native of Koswatta,Battaramulla, as his ancestors is a septuagenarian, born on 13th July 1952 is rare individual among human beings who effortlessly surpasses the majority of his colleagues in his vast familiarity in many fields, need to mention predominantly is a staunch Buddhist who could converse on any subject other than his familiar  music sphere. At a television confrontation was once categorised as a philosopher possessing the basic ideas of knowledge, truth, right  and wrong, religion  and the extensive meaning of life.  Dayaratne had been a passionate music enthusiast from his school days, has had ‘daham pasel’ education too.He had taken part in many amateur singing competitions as a youngster having tasted success. He recalls in year 1980 how he and ...

May 29, 2023 Posted by In Articles, Sunil Thenabadu Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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UNSELFISH MUSICIAN INDRAJIT MIRIHANA DOMICILED IN MELBOURNE WITH EXCEPTIONAL MOTIVES WITH RARE QUALITIES NOT POSSESSED BY OTHERS – by Sunil Thenabadu Indrajit Miirihana is a renowned musician well known to Sri Lankans in  Australia and Sri Lanka who owns a band whom could write notations in music to unprecedented tall elevations .While domiciled in Melbourne has accomplished a lot to Sri Lankan artistes other than any other by sponsoring them and by  felicitating, some who had never been complimented in native Sri Lanka, too like Chandradasa Fernando the famous lyricist who had composed around ninety percent of the songs of the Gypsies. Indrajit had sponsored many who had not got the opportunity to visit Australia like Rohana Siriwardena, Chandrakumar Kandanarachchi  in his concert termed ‘Ege Sinahawa Thahanam”  visiting for the first time to ’Down Under” Chandrakumar had sung so many popular songs like “Nelum Vile” .”Pem Benda Sith Benda”,”Sath Dinakin ...

May 26, 2023 Posted by In Articles, Sunil Thenabadu Tagged , ,
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Legendary ‘UNSUNG” humble model Lead Guitarist Mahinda Bandara reminisced – by Sunil Thenabadu Legendary ‘UNSUNG” humble model Lead Guitarist Mahinda Bandara reminisced – by Sunil Thenabadu It is a natural phenomenon for any person to be a legend in any field to have acquired hereditary affiliations from family members or ancestors which is a laid down norm. The unblemished music career of humble Mahinda Bandara is no exception. It is obvious that his mother Chandra Bandara has acquired musical instincts as a ‘A’ grade vocalist at the SLBC from genital affiliations from her father DG Kodituwakku a master in ‘Tabla’ also a teacher of repute. Mahinda’s maternal uncle is famous Tabla exponent Premanath Kodituwakku a native of Kegalle as Mahinda. At Mahinda’s ancestral dwelling where he too resided there had been many musical instruments v.i.z. tabla,violin,sitar,guitar, mandolin etc., which were freely available for Mahinda to experiment with. Emulating the elders Mahinda ...

May 20, 2023 Posted by In Articles, Sunil Thenabadu Tagged , , , ,
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“THARU PIRI RE” TELECAST OVER SIYATHA TV ON 6th May (SATURDAY) – A SPORADIC IMMACULATE TELEVISION SPECTACLE- WITH SIX DAUGHTERS OF LEGENDS – by Sunil Thenabadu All Sri Lankan television channels over each weekend telecast chat programs inviting artistes in several fields with the theme becoming been more or less identical. When the artistes are constantly invited there is obviously a poor viewer audience as the faces are common who speak what they have already spoken and sing  the same songs which obviously not in favour of viewer attraction. Deviating from this under a comprehensive nonconformity ‘Siyatha’ television on the 6th May the day after the Vesak Full moon day in the week end program ‘Tharu Piri Re” presented by Rangana of Hiru, Swarnavahini fame in the competent ‘chat field’ for over two decades in a complete different concept had invited six daughters of legendary vocalists, musicians and lyricists. Accordingly daughters Rupashika Ranatunga,Subani ...

May 9, 2023 Posted by In Articles, Sunil Thenabadu Tagged , , , , , ,
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Rupee appreciates against Gulf currencies – By Sunil Thenabadu Source : info-rain The Sri Lankan Rupee has appreciated further against several Gulf currencies today in comparison to yesterday (03), the Central Bank of Sri Lanka reported. According to the CBSL, the Rupee has also appreciated against the UAE’s Dirham of which the selling rate has reduced from Rs. 87.38 to Rs. 87.12. The rupee has also appreciated against a basket of other foreign currencies, including the US Dollar of which the selling rate is Rs. 326.62. ...

May 6, 2023 Posted by In Articles, Sunil Thenabadu Tagged
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VESAK CELEBRATED AFTER THREE YEARS ISLANDWIDE – By Sunil Thenabadu Source : info-rain Vesak Full Moon Poya ON 5th May! Buddhists all over the world celebrate the Vesak Full Moon Poya Day today (5).Buddhists commemorate Siddhartha Gautama’s birth, the enlightenment of the Buddha, and the passing away on the Vesak Full Moon Poya Day. This year’s Vesak is extra special for Sri Lankans since they were not able to celebrate the Vesak festival in previous years due to Easter Sunday attacks in 2019 and the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021.On the occasion of Vesak, Sri Lankan Buddhist devotees conduct various religious programmes and organise many Aamisa and Prathipaththi poojas including pandals, lanterns, and dansals mostly in and around Colombo and in other major cities. Accordingly, Vesak zones have been set up in many places including Thotalanga, Kiribathgoda, Kelaniya, Maharagama, Kottawa and Rajagiriya. The Bauddhaloka and the Gangarama Buddha Rashmi Vesak ...

May 6, 2023 Posted by In Articles, Sunil Thenabadu Tagged , , , , , ,
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Evoking labours of Hon Late Gamini Dissanayake in conquering Test status – by Sunil Thenabadu  The endeavours of the late Gamini Dissanayake, while holding several Ministerial Portfolios other than spearheading the Mahaweli project, have helped vastly to uplift to a large extent the basic living standards, especially of the average citizen and made a tremendous impact on the economic revival of the country, which is of course is no exaggeration. Besides being dynamically engaged in our development progression, he found the time to be actively involved in the game of cricket; having held office as the President of the Board of Control of Cricket in Sri Lanka, (BCCSL, now known as Sri Lanka Cricket,SLC) from June 1981 to June 1989 and thereafter, for a brief period of four months, immediately prior to his tragic death in 1994; during which period he made loads of momentous contributions. Throughout the tenure of past ...

Apr 22, 2023 Posted by In Articles, Sunil Thenabadu Tagged , ,
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