eLanka Newsletter – 2nd October 2024 -1st Edition Sri Lankans in Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter Kamindu Mendis and Sri Lanka are streaming towards the summit of world cricket. Sri Lanka spinners have New Zealand in a dizzy tailspin. – BY TREVINE RODRIGO IN MELBOURNE. (eLanka Sports Editor) Health & Views – SEPTEMBER 3rd issue 2024 – By Dr Harold Gunatillake SRI LANKA NEWS (SEPTEMBER 2024 Compiled by Victor Melder SRI LANKA CRICKET NEWS – SEPTEMBER 2024 World Children’s Day in Sri Lanka: A Celebration of Childhood and Rights-by Kalani-eLanka Qld Sri Lankan Newsletter – Dæhæna – October 2024 amanté Relaunches an Upgraded Full-Figure Intimate Wear Collection with Ultimo Autumn Landscape – By Charmaine Candappa Maxwell, Younus and Fleming to celebrate Australian summer on 5 October OBITUARY – Dr GPLM De Silva ( 24 March 1935 – 21 Sep 2024 ) ...
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OBITUARY – Dr GPLM De Silva ( 24 March 1935 – 21 Sep 2024 ) – By Hugh Karunanayake It is with utmost sadness tha t I pa y this tribute to a dear friend I have been fortunate and privileged to know for the past 80years. GPLM were his initials but is better known to his friends as Lakshman. I met La kshman first as a ten year old enrolled in Form 1A in Royal College, in 1946. The school was still in temporary premises( the school buildings req uisitioned in 1941 for the war effort) and the lower school housed in Carlton Lodge, in Turret Road on the grounds of Turret House which was accommodatingb the Upper School. Lakshman together with a few other boys came from Ladies College, whereas I was promoted togeter with about 80 % of the intake, from the Primary School of Royal College, ...
OBITUARY – CHANDRA SENARATNE (9 Feb 1933 – 3 June 2024 ) – By Hugh Karunanayake The news of Chandra Senaratne ‘s passing came as no surprise to me, as he was not in the best of health recently. Nevetheless, the sadness and the finality it brings to a life well lived, remains so indelibly etched in my memory, and will remain forever. Chandra was a dear friend with whom I have been able to associate closely over the past 30 years. He is only two years older than I, and it would have surprised him to know that I remember him as a student in Royal College in Colombo, where we both attended, he a couple of forms senior to me. As you all know, a two year seniority in school brings with it a certain aura of respect, and adulation. In Chandra’s case he was (if I remember ...
eLanka Newsletter -6th May 2024 – 2nd Edition Sri Lankans in Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter Shehana Wijesena – Partner at Bird & Bird (International Law Firm) – Intellectual Property Group in Sydney The Sri Lanka visa debacle…. How to break what is working well!! – By Aubrey Joachim HEART TRANSPLANT – By Lakshman Navaratne “The Thyroid Gland: A Key Player in Your Body’s Health” – By Dr Harold Gunatillake SUNDAY CHOICE – Tell me why? – By Charles Schokman MY APPRECIATION “He’s My Brother” – By Alix Vaz The latest blow to the oil markets: Chinese manufacturing activity slows down again! – By Hemantha Yapa Abeywardena Mitchell Marsh has been appointed captain of the Australian men’s T20 team and will lead the side at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup. “Those Mother and Child Moments” – A Mother’s Day reflection ...
eLanka Newsletter – 18th February 2024 – 5th Edition Sri Lankans in Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter Nissanka, Fernando and Mendis lead Sri Lanka blitz and bowlers complete series clean sweep. T20 series should decide new look Sri Lanka revival. – BY TREVINE RODRIGO IN MELBOURNE. (eLanka Sports Editor) Looking after your gut health – By Dr Harold Gunatillake Obituary: Trevor Rajaratnam – BY TREVINE RODRIGO IN MELBOURNE. Cricket Australia commits to Multicultural Action Plan SQUAD Nepal turns one RAJITHA HIRAN MULTIFACETED RENOWNED, CHARACTER ACTOR,COMEDIAN,VOCALIST,SCRIPT WRITER, SKETCHER,FILM DIRECTOR, POEM LYRICIST IN A FASCINATING UNBLEMISHED VOYAGE – By Sunil Thenabadu Kaleidoscope with Savithri Rodrigo 197 15 02 2024 SUNDAY CHOICE – WHAT HE’S DONE–MESSAGE FOR LENT – By Charles Schokman Obituary : Doris Vannitamby – By Charles Schokman Sri Lankan Exporters Delegation to Melbourne , Australia 11th to 16th March 2024 ( ...
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 ...
Lionel Wendt, Count de Mauny, David Paynter and Raman-by Hugh Karunanayake Source:Island Image Source:Island The self styled “Count”. De Mauny was born as Maurice Marie Talavande on March 21, 1886. The circumstances under which he left for Ceylon were controversial, some writers suggesting that he was compelled to leave France for misbehaviour with young men in his charge. None of these rumours have ever been established, and to this day remain as rumours. According to William Warren, author of the book “Tropical Asian Style”, de Mauny was first invited to Ceylon in 1912 by SIr Thomas Lipton the tea magnate. He followed that up with several subsequent visits concluding with his purchase of an island off the coast of Weligama, which was only a rocky outcrop one and a half acres in extent and overrun with weeds. He paid Rs 250 for the island, and soon settled down to ...
eLanka Newsletter – 7th February 2024 – 2nd Edition Sri Lankans in Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter Audrey’s 100th birthday – by Trevine Rodrigo (eLanka – Melbourne) Australian men’s fast bowler Jason Behrendorff spoke to the media in Perth today ahead of the Dettol T20 Series against the West Indies. ST ANTHONY’S VS ST BENEDICT’S – A proud SAINTS partnership – by Afzal Laphir 76th Independance Day Celebrations held in Toronto – Photos thanks to Noor Rahim Watch Cricket Test match Hihglights – Afghanistan vs Sri Lanka – February 2-5, 2024, Kerrigan La-Brooy – Concert Dance Health & Views – FEBRUARY 1st issue 2024 – By Dr Harold Gunatillake Kerrigan La_Brooy is honoured to be Nominated in 12 Categories at the 2024 International Red Carpet Awards Australian 15-player men’s squad for the T20 Series on the Qantas Tour of New Zealand ...
eLanka Newsletter – 31st January 2024 – 9th Edition Sri Lankans in Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter Shamar Joseph the new whizzkid in world cricket – Heroic return despite injury has unearthed a superstar who single handedly destroyed Australia – BY TREVINE RODRIGO IN MELBOURNE (eLanka Sports editor) Australia Day Celebrations at Many Little Bar & Dining supports FOG’s Plates of Goodness, at Red Hill, Mornington Peninsula. Australia Day Celebrations at Many Little Bar & Dining supports FOG’s Plates of Goodness, at Red Hill, Mornington Peninsula. Interview – Australian men’s head coach Andrew McDonald following the second Test against the West Indies in Brisbane. Sr Lanka’s pride and joy Chamari Athapaththu picked to lead the world’s best – Also named Women’s player-of -the -year – BY TREVINE RODRIGO IN MELBOURNE. (eLanka Sports editor) Duruthu Poya Day Celebration in Kandy. – By ...
eLanka Newsletter – 24th January 2024 – 7th Edition Sri Lankans in Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter H.E. Admiral Ravindra C Wijegunaratne, High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to Pakistan attended Expo- Engineering and Healthcare Show, held from 18-20th January 2024 in Lahore “Why do I think that beer is beneficial for health?” – By Dr Harold Gunatillake MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS. – By Charles Schokman SERENDIPITY: THE ROMAN DISCOVERY OF TAPROBANE – by MELINDA SZÉKELY (University of Szeged, Hungary) Will Australia Day citizenship ceremonies become a thing of the past: SBS Sinhala Explainer 19 January – by Dinesh Liyanage A tribute to our beloved son and one of a kind human being – By Marie Wambeek NETANYAHU TEETERS ON SHIFTING SANDS – by Joe Van Langenberg CHAMUDITHA AWARD WINNING ACCLAIMED TELEVISION HOST,MEDIA SECRETARY AT THE APEX OF FAME AT TIMES ...
