VICTOR  MELDER  SRI  LANKA LIBRARY 7, Benambra Street, Broadmeadows, Vic 3047, Australia. Telephone + 61 3 9309 4040 E-mail < melder.rjvm1935@bigpond.com > Web Site < www.vmsl-library.com > THOSE WISHING TO DONATE BOOKS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS TO THIS LIBRARY, PLEASE CONTACT ME AT ABOVE ADDRESS, BY EMAIL OR TELEPHONE. Thank You.   ACQUISITIONS   FOR  THE  MONTH  OF  AUGUST  2019 BOOKS To Wage War Against the Queen (The Coup d’etat of January 27, 1962) by Dorothy Ludowyk Joseph, Facsimile, 2001 (Donated by Kevin Melder, Dalkeith, WA) Lost in Floral Rain Journey of a Medical Student by Pushpa Suriyaarchchi, 2019. Contemporary Tamil Writing in Sri Lanka by K.S.Sivakumaran, 1974 Kings of Sri Lanka, From Vijaya to Sri Wickrama Rajasingha by D.M.Karunarathna, 2005. Plead Mercy by Anne Ranasinghe, 1975 The Golden Deer by Premini Amerasinghe   (No’s 2 – 6, Donted by Samantha Sirimane Hyde, Denistone, NSW Lions of Sri Lanka, Cricket ...

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“CRICKET, LOVELY CRICKET” by Des Kelly We, lucky people of Australia, have such an abundance of “entertainment”to view on our television screens each and every day & night (for insomniacs), it is absolutely incredible. At the moment, I start with the “News” on Channel 2, which continues all day on Channel 24. No-one can say that they are not aware of the “current news”, unless, of course, they leave “the box” switched off all day, which I now do, myself sometimes, when I have to concentrate on “writing” for eLanka, our top website in Oz.,or writing “important e’mails to various folk, like the Premier of Victoria, for example, offering his Government another “original composition” entitled “It’s You”, a Road-Safety Song, entirely gratis, in the hope that if it is “aired” at peak-hours, especially, drivers of various vehicles (who generally have their “radios” on, as they drive, hear my lyrics and, ...

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