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W JAYASIRI ILLUSTRIOUS LEGENDARY ACTOR ACCLAIMED LYRICIST,TELEVISION PRESENTER WITH MULTIFACETED FACADES A CELEBRITY FOR OVER FIVE DECADES – By Sunil Thenabadu Weerapullige Jayasiri was born on the May Day in, 1947, popularly known as W. Jayasiri, in Polwatte ,Weligama at his maternal ancestral dwelling before moving to his permanent dwelling to No 550 ‘Sirisevana” Hirimbura,Galle , is a Sri Lankan illustrious actor in stage drama cinema and television.is a multifaceted personality. Is highly versatile actor from drama to comedy or whatever recently more conspicuously seen portraying the role of a Buddhist monk in robes which he had lamented to be an uncomfortable attire. Jayasiri is a multi-talented updated person as most of his friends worked as a script writer and lyricist radio and television presenter. Jayasiri affirmed that his mother had added that when he was only two years old had commenced reading newspapers had strangely quipped the word OSAP,OSAP an advertisement at ...

PROFESSOR ABHAYA ATTANAYAKE Source:Island Last week brought news of the death of Professor Abhaya Attanayake at the ripe age of 84-years after a distinguished career as a pioneer of teaching of Cartography at graduate and post graduate level at the University of Jayawardenapura. Abhaya and I entered Peradeniya University in 1957, he from St Peters College and I from Trinity. We were both lodged in Arunachalam Hall and we began a friendship which lasted over 50 years. We both belonged to a small group of like minded students who were interested in the arts and culture which included HL Seneviratne, JB Dissanayake, Dhammika Amerasinghe, HL Perera, PAS Saram, Rex Casinader, PR Fonseka and Dudley Dissanayake. They are now spread all over the world and Dudley passed away several years ago. ...