Galba’s Tales of Parliamentary Affairs from the Inside: “Wow”!-by Michael Roberts Source:Thuppahis Hugh Karunanayake, … with the title and the highlighting being impositions by The Editor, Thuppahi Nihal Seneviratne, the former Secretary General of Sri Lanka’s Parliament which he served with distinction and diligence for 33 years, has published his autobiographical memoir entitled “Memories of 33 years in Parliament”. Written in a very readable, chatty style of prose, it is indeed a compendium of the highlights of the nation’s legislative workings over the past three decades. If anyone dares to call the nation’s Parliament a “circus”, then surely the Secretary General, together with the Speaker must be the “ringmasters’ of the circus! It is most definitely a vantage point from which a person appointed under the Constitution of the country, as Secretary General of Parliament, could view the inner dynamics of the workings of an institution entrusted by the people to guide the destinies ...
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Arisen Ahubudu – A Teacher Most Rare and Extraordinaire – by S.V.D. Kesarralal Gunasekera Source:stcobasydney.org About the author ; S.V.D. Kesarralal Gunasekera rates as one of our most prolific contributors, when it come to penning heart-felt tributes to teachers of his era. Having already featured one of his tributes on this website , we bring this appreciation as a prelude, to mark World Teachers Day in October. Born & bred in Mount Lavinia, this Thomian stalwart is very close to STC action and lives down De Saram Rd. Among his many achievements ; Former Member of Parliament, Former Deputy Mayor of Dehiwela & Former Director, Network Securities Ltd. An Accountant by profession he was also Chairman, National Lotteries Board, Chairman, Associate Newspapers of Ceylon , Chairman , Ceylon Port Service and the Director, Sri Lanka Port Management & Consultancy Services Ltd. Having also served as Chief Editor, Sunday Observer, we ...
Jan 30, 2022
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A COMPREHENSIVE ACCOUNT OF A NATIONAL TRAGEDY-by Professor Ravindra Fernando Source:Island Published by Vijitha Yapa Publications April 2021 Review by Tissa Devendra Price Rs 700 None other than Professor Ravindra Fernando could ever have written this fascinating account of this blood stained chapter of our country’s recent history. He is our pre-eminent author on forensic subjects. His work on the Sathasivam and the Vicarage murders have won acclaim for their fine expression of forensic and legal knowledge. What is most valuable is his account of the political and social background of this troubled period that culminated in this assassination. We are given a meticulously researched account of the phenomenal rise of young Premadasa from humble origins in Colombo’s working class Pettah to the supreme position of Sri Lanka’s President. But his journey to the summit was not smooth. He had to fight tooth and claw, using every stratagem and ally ...
The transitional 1990s and beyond (JVP-III)-by Rajan Philips Source:Island If the 1980s were tumultuous, the 1990s were more transitional, even if not less tumultuous. In this ‘potted’ history, it is not necessary to recount all the details of the 1990s and the first decade of the new 21st century. Suffice it to focus on developments that have had a continuing influence on current events and the farce of 2021. The UNP and the JVP, which more or less came together in 1977, were gone by 1994, after seventeen years of assorted achievements. The UNP would never return to the same pinnacle of power that it seized in 1977. The JVP with a new generation of leaders transformed itself into a democratic political party with mixed results. The first half the decade saw the disintegration of the UNP under the weight of the presidential ambitions of three rival contenders – President ...
May 14, 2021
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Always remembered by what he has done-By Lalith Athulathmudali Source:Dailymirror Lalith Athulathmudali was indefatigable in his quest for knowledge and was continuously opening windows for our youth to the modern world of knowledge and technology. With the Mahapola concept, he demonstrated the fact that school was not merely an institution concerned with distributing prescribed learning but rather that it was motivated towards creating an awareness of ever-expanding human horizon in the world of today & tomorrow. Communication & information were central to Lalith’s vision of realizing his goals. His steadfast ambition was that our youth be equipped to take their place in the global village of advancing technology. Lalith’s enduring mission was to provide facilities for our young men & women with high ideals and higher hopes emerging each year on the threshold of life with no hope of assistance, falling back in frustration because they were being defeated by ...
LALITH ATHULATHMUDALI, A COLOSSUS SORELY MISSED by Krishantha Cooray I am told that a crowd of people had stood by the statue at the corner where Rajakeeya Mawatha meets Kumaratunga Munidasa Mawatha around 10.30 this past Saturday the 26th of November, 2016. The statue had been garlanded, apparently. It’s impossible to tell if those who passed by knew what it was all about. We can’t tell if those who pass that junction on a daily basis know whose statue it is if indeed they had even noticed it. That’s how it is. Time passes, monuments once new and people once fresh in one’s memory, blend into the landscape and into the long history of a nation respectively and they are no longer noticed or remembered. The man thus commemorated was Lalith Athulathmudali. To put it all in perspective, even I who knew him well, had no idea that such an ...
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