eLanka Newsletter – 11th February 2024 – 3rd Edition Sri Lankans in Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter 76th Anniversary Independence day Celebrations in Adelaide, Australia Seventy Sixth Anniversary of Independence of Sri Lanka is celebrated in Melbourne – Photos by Johann Jayasinha (SNNI) Australia The hills in Pallekelle rained boundaries as Nissanka double century sinks Afganistan – Historic first double hundred gives Lankans first up win – BY TREVINE RODRIGO IN MELBOURNE (eLanka Sports editor) Victor Melder – Sri Lanka Independence Commemoration event in Melbourne – Award to Victor Melder For His Services to the Community and Sri Lanka in Australia. The 28th Annual Royal Thomian Cricket Festival – A battle enlaced in tradition and camaraderie President meets Sri Lankan Diaspora in Australia, outlines plans for economic modernization Good News From Jayam – By Jayam Rutnam Angelo Matthews, Dinesh Chandimal and ...

Read More →

 “LEGENDS, ALL”!! – By Des Kelly                “THESE ARE ALL LEGENDS,               AND, IT IS THEIR WISH,         TO TEACH RURAL CHILDREN,           SOME CORRECT ENGLISH.          WE CONGRATULATE THEM,              EACH ONE, AND ALL,         HOPE THAT YOUR STUDENTS,               WILL ALL HAVE A BALL”.   Desmond Kelly. (Editor-in-Chief)  eLanka.            Legends give up leisure time to help rural kids improve spoken English skills  Source:FT Some of the brightest kids in the land who succeed at the all island scholarship exams and gain entry to the leading Government schools in Colombo sadly lack good English speaking skills. Padmasena Dissanayake (Class of 64 and the Olive Group at Royal College) has long pushed the barrow ...

Read More →