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eLanka Newsletter – 5th March 2023 – 2nd Edition Sri Lankans in Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter A Kelly Klassic – “Robert Stolz – Op.216 Wien Wird Bei Nacht Erst Schön Song [Sterk] (1915)” – by Des Kelly Honoring the LEGEND – Desmond de Silva – By Mariazelle Goonetilleke Nepal triumph in Asia Qualifier to seal spot at ICC U19 Men’s Cricket World Cup 2024 Anton Swan – From Wickrama Weerasooriya’s Book (former High Commissioner Dr. Wickrama Weerasooriya). Cricket – Big Mathes in Sri Lanka – to be played in 2023 Hot Hot Cricket News from Sri Lanka-by Michael Roberts SINHALA DICTIONARY BY BUDDHADASA HEWAGE – By Dr Tilak S. Fernando Health & Views – February 3rd issue 2023 – By Dr harold Gunatillake Kaleidoscope with Savithri Rodrigo 147 03 03 23 Samanabedda Cave Temple – abode for meditating monks – ...

President Rajapaksa and his 13A dilemmas-by Rajan Philips Source:Island It was said of Prime Minister SWRD Bandaranaike that “it was a grim irony that he should be called upon, at the moment of his greatest political triumph, to articulate the strong opposition of the Sinhalese to any attempt to establish a federal constitution.” Sixty-five years later, it could be said in reverse that it is a grimmer irony for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to be unfairlyput on the spot by his most ardent supporters and their insistent calls for abolishing the Provincial Council system, in total disregard of the realities of political and geopolitical consequences of such abolishing, not to mention the extraordinary Covid-19 challenges that he has to deal with now. The irony is to be noted because Mr. Rajapaksa was among the first to raise the call for abolishing the PCs as far back as 10 years ago, when ...