Manik de Silva Archives

eLanka Newsletter – 2nd March 2022 – 1st Edition – Sri Lankans In Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter “ENGLISH HISTORY” – by Des Kelly What Sri Lanka must learn from their India thrashing – By Trevine Rodrigo (Melbourne: eLanka Sports Editor) Cricket Yarns with RH6 – Ep 2 – Harry Solomons – Founder and Owner of Kingsgrove Sports Centre Peterite Centenary Dinner Dance – Organised by St. Peter’s College Colombo, OBU UK Branch – La Bamba Nite 2022 Sihinayaki Re’with youngest Guest twenty three year old Sumeera Gunasekera born abnormal – by Sunil Thenabadu SRI LANKA NEWS (FEBRUARY 2022) Compiled by Victor Melder. Andrea Bocelli & Mattoe Bocelli-Holy night cross hall “GOAL-KEEPER EXTRAORDINAIRE” – by Des Kelly U.S. Ambassador Chung Presents Credentials to President Rajapaksa He was an erudite scholar and researcher-by Dr.Preethi Wijegoonewardene H. R. Jothipala: Sinhala Cinema’s Most Popular ...

M.S. de Silva, Lanka’s first (successful) journalist/entrepreneur Source:Island The 20th death anniversary of M.S. de Silva, the only Lankan journalist in my memory, who left journalism and carved out a business empire, fell two days ago. His wife, Karuna, asked me to write something about this ever smiling man, always in his trademark whites, who never forgot his friends whatever heights he scaled. Immensely proud of his southern roots, he was one of the many entrepreneurs in this country, born south of the Bentara river, who made a name for himself as a business baron. This, like others of his ilk, he did with very little seed capital of his own, making and losing a fortune but never demonstrating the slightest trace of bitterness. When I was made the editor of what was then the Ceylon Daily News in the early eighties, he rang to congratulate me and tell me, ...