eLanka Newsletter – 26th February 2023 – 8th Edition Sri Lankans in Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter EX-PRESIDENT OF AMERICA, JIMMY CARTER – by Des Kelly HAPPY 94th BIRTHDAY – Mr Charles Schokman Dilshan scoops out irritating incidents – by Sunil Thenabadu With India on the rise Sri Lanka can only rue the lost opportunities! By Aubrey Joachim SUNDAY CHOICE – JESUS, KEEP ME NEAR THE CROSS – by Charles Schokman An evening with Aravinda De Silva – Heart of Love Foundation – Special Event – Saturday 4th March 2023 (Sydney event) Health & Views February 2nd issue – By Dr harold Gunatillake Sunil C De Silva PREMIER NAMES 2023 MULTICULTURAL CHAMPIONS Vision Care opens newest branch at Medihelp Hospitals in Kelaniya Antonian Newsletter – December 2022 Where are the starving people?-By Dr harold Gunatillake Kaleidoscope with Savithri Rodrigo 146 24 ...

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DEVANGI WICKREMASINGHE IT SPECIALIST QUALIFIED IN BICT SYDNEY PHENOMINAL NATURAL DANCER BUDDING FILM STAR – by Sunil Thenabadu Photo Source:sundayobserver.lk   Young Devangi Wickremasinghe a beauty who turns eyes wherever she goes is fair possessing a slim tall figure, radiant hair with glowing eyes. But with Devangi it is beauty and brains both combined. Devangi in school too has had focus on IT.At present, she has already completed a Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology Degree( BICT), which was  a gruelling IT course on Cyber Security, minoring and networking at the Western Sydney University ,Australia, After four years she had returned home delayed after travel restrictions owing to Covid-19 epidemic. She hopes to return to Sydney to pursue studies, for her Masters in the same field.She is the eldest child of King of Choreography Chandana Wickremasinghe who is in par with Sri Lanka’s choreographic stalwarts Channa Wijewardena and Ravibandu Vidyapathy as leaders ...

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Peshala a maestro a brand doyen in Tabla at the pinnacle of celebrity – by Sunil Thenabadu Source:songhub.lk   Peshala Peshkaaran Manoj popularly known as Peshala is a ‘brand’ name in Sri Lanka synonymous with Tabla. Peshala perhaps the most qualified Tabla exponent having Nipun.Masters and a Degree from the Bahathkande University in Lucknow India where he had a prolonged career for nearly eight years from year 2000 when he began his university career even before his Advanced level results were released.In fact it is on record that Peshala’s Advanced Level results were dispatched to him while in Lucknow.  Peshala hails from Dematagoda has humbly affirmed that his parents were not that affluent not artistes either , not had any hereditary affiliations to his music ability.Father and Mother had been adherents to normal music which Peshala and his younger brother had followed suite. Pehala’s father had played the Dole with ...

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