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Tribute to JANAKA BALASOORIYA Dreaded Parkinson snatches life cruelly at young age of 45 years By Sunil Thenabadu “To every man upon the earth/death cometh soon or late”, is  a memorable phrase of  literary legend  William Shakespeare. There is also a famous saying that ‘good die young’. It was dreadful Parkinson decease that snatched  away the  precious life of much loved Janaka Balasooriya at the age of only 45 years, when his life had just commenced to blossom while living in Melbourne having migrated perhaps in search of greener pastures in year 2008.After his secondary education at Isipathana College Janaka had graduated from the Ceylon-German Technical  Training Institute in Moratuwa in the year 1991 when he was barely 20 years old. With  the training received at the German Tech he was able to find  employment effortlessly. He had been the transport Manager at DS Jayasinghe, Nawaloka group  and Jefferjee brothers  for one and a half decades before opting to migrate.  In ...