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NIGHT OF TERROR DAWN OF HOPE. – By Bernard VanCuylenburg PROLOGUE Please note that the names of the Superintendent and the Assistant Superintendent in this story are pseudonymns used for reasons of journalistic propriety. The officer in Charge of the Maskeliya Police Station at the time Mr.Ivan Boteju, a star ...

Aug 4, 2020 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Bernard VanCuylenburg Tagged Bernard VanCuylenburg, Ivan Boteju, Mr.Dunsmore, St.Anthony’s College, Tony Richards Comments 0

GLORY DAYS : THE LEGEND THAT WAS TOM DEEN.- By Bernard VanCuylenburg The legend that was Tom Deen had its genesis on the playing fields of St. Anthony’s College Kandy, when he first attended cricket practice for the Under 12 team. Thus began a fairy tale when in no time this ...

May 5, 2020 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Bernard VanCuylenburg Tagged Bernard VanCuylenburg, Saliya Doranegama Comments 0

A MEMORY OF MURDER By Bernard vanCuylenburg From serial killers to celebrity victims, sensational murder cases tend to grab one’s collective imagination and just wont let go. In the past I wrote some articles about famous murder cases of English planters on the tea estates. The first was about the murder ...

Apr 23, 2020 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Bernard VanCuylenburg Tagged Kitulamulla Patana, Talgaswella Estate, Victor Melder Comments 0

THE LIAM DODDRELL STORY – A SAGA OF CRICKETING BRILLIANCE – By Bernard VanCuylenburg Since his prodigious feats with bat and ball at the tender age of six on his home turf of St.Clair in Sydney, Liam Doddrell is a name that has been attracting wide attention for lovers of cricket ...

Apr 17, 2020 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Bernard VanCuylenburg Tagged Covid 19, Liam Doddrell, National Cricket Carnival Comments 0

A WORLD OF FRIENDS – By Cam Lucadou – Wells The following article was published in THE DANDENONG STAR JOURNAL of the 31st March 2020.(ref:https://dandenong.starcommunity.com.au/entertainment/2020-03-23/a-world-of-friends/ The well travelled Bernard VanCuylenburg’s worldly interests dont only span five languages but millenia of history. For two decades, the 76 year old multi ...

Apr 2, 2020 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Bernard VanCuylenburg Tagged ANTHONY'S COLLEGE in Kandy, Tullamarine International Airport Comments 0

THE GLORY DAYS OF ANTHONIAN CRICKET – BY Bernard VanCuylenburg It seems that we are reliving the glory days of Anthonian cricket thanks to Tilak and now Frankie Amerasinghe, who have taken us back to that great College by the mighty Mahaveli where “we had joy, we ...

Mar 25, 2020 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Bernard VanCuylenburg Tagged and Ananda, Anthonian cricket, Dharmarajah, Frankie Amerasinghe, Kingswood, St.Josephs, St.Peters, Trininity vs Antonian Cricket Comments 0

STRANGE BUT TRUE – THE UNWELCOME VISITOR – By Bernard VanCuylenburg. As an introduction to the crux of this story, I have to part the veil of time and go back to the early sixties in Ceylon, when a friend of mine and I went to the Trio Cinema ...

Jan 5, 2020 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Bernard VanCuylenburg Tagged Bernard VanCuylenburg, Francis D.Lyon, Snakes Comments 0

MURDER ROUND THE BEND – By Bernard VanCuylenburg A beautiful city with a fortified Dutch Fort, world heritage site buildings, fine beaches with broad expanses of silver sand, and restaurants and hotels to cater to the most fastidious tourist is what comes to mind when one thinks of Galle. ...

Nov 30, 2019 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Bernard VanCuylenburg Tagged Dutch Fort, Jak Tree Bungalow, Madampe Group Rakwana, Mr.John Frank, Talgaswella Comments 0

MURDER AT MIDNIGHT – By Bernard VanCuylenburg In May 1941, the Nuwaraeliya district was rocked by the news of the dastardly murder of the Superintendent on Stellenberg Estate Pupuressa, Mr.George Pope. In an article which I wrote about ten years ago titled “Tales from the Thotum” I wrote about ...

Nov 20, 2019 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Bernard VanCuylenburg Tagged Bernard VanCuylenburg, Pope negotiating, Sinne Muniyandy, Victor Melder Comments 0

GEORGE WALL – THE LION THAT ROARED – By Bernard VanCuylenburg A few months ago I wrote an article titled “David and Goliath” which featured a young English tea planter Mark Anthony Bracegirdle, who rocked the colonial establishment when he sided with the workers and the unions, by demanding better ...

Mar 26, 2019 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Bernard VanCuylenburg Tagged Bernard VanCuylenburg, Mark Anthony Bracegirdle Comments 0

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