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eLanka Newsletter – 25th January 2023 – 8th Edition Sri Lankans in Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter “OUR SRI LANKA” – by Des Kelly AN ANNIVERSARY TO REMEMBER” – by Des Kelly Epitaph for Sumitra Peries: A Poet of the Sri Lankan Cinema World-by Michael Roberts Constitution of the Faithful Church, still on earth (Mary’s Song) DOCTRINE OF THE BLOOD By Lakshman Navaratne Mapped: these are the UK’s rudest and most obscene place names-by Sophie Dickinson Unlocking the Power of Quantum Computing – Understanding the Basics and Potential Applications By Bhanuka – eLanka How Sri Lankan Tamils Came To Have ‘English’ Names BBC NEWSNIGHT – SRI LANKA – 12/01/23 BURGHER LIGHTS OF SRI LANKA by ECB Wijeyesinghe U.S. Government takes U-turn on Cholesterol By Dr Tilak S. Fernando, January 24, 2023 Female Attire in Sri Lanka and AK Coomaraswamy-by Michael Roberts ...

Jan 25, 2023 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, eLanka Newsletters Tagged Arundathie Abeysinghe, ECB Wijeyesinghe, eLanka Newsletter, Michael Roberts, Nissanka Latha Manadapaya, Richard Dwight

BURGHER LIGHTS OF SRI LANKA by ECB Wijeyesinghe Source:-island.lk Those who think that all good Burghers, when they die, go to Holland, are sadly mistaken. The best of them, in life and death, have not only hitched their wagons to the fluctuating fortunes of this little island, but rendered such signal service to the land of their birth that they have amply qualified to be described as patriots. One of them, R. L. de Boer Brohier, passed away the other day (1980). There was not an inch of this country he had not covered with his theodolite. He knew every village tank and anicut, every ancient ruin, every mountain, hill and valley, like the palm of his hand. There are many others of the same ilk like Andreas Nell, R. L. Spittel, E. Reimers, C. W. Nicholas, J. H. O. Paulusz and Sam Mottau who embraced their motherland with both ...

Jan 24, 2023 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged A. E. Buultjens, A. J. R. Scharenguivel, A. L. de Witt, Andreas Nell, Aubrey Martensz, BURGHER LIGHTS, C. L. Ferdinands. L. M. Maartensz, C. W. Nicholas, Claude Orr, Clement de Jong, Cyril A. Jansz, E. H. Joseph, E. Reimers, ECB Wijeyesinghe, Eric Jansz, Eric La Brooy, F. Lourensz, Frank Markus, G. S. Schneider, Hector Van Cuylenberg, J. G. Vandersmagt, J. H. O. Paulusz, J. Ludovici, Joseph Grenier, Justin LaBrooy, Noel Gratiaen, Percy Cooke, R. L. de Boer Brohier, R. L. Spittel, Sam de Vos, V. O. Wright, V. R. Schokman, Wace de Neise, Waldo Sansoni