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Honouring the Pereira Lineage & Their Service to Sri Lanka-by Indunil De Silva Source:Thuppahis With my classmate and friend Lorenz Pereira and wife Kumi at the SSC after the Bradby. Lorenz was the most gifted Sportsman at College during our generation. He was so gifted that sports came naturally to him. He captained Royal in Cricket, Rugby and Tennis and also was a coloursman in Athletics. Simple to the core with absolutely no arrogance, he is a worthy son of the late Professor EOE Pereira the father of the Engineering Faculty at Peradeniya University who is universally known for his educational skills and on whose shoulders greatness sat lightly I am indeed grateful for my long and uninterrupted friendship with Lorenz the humblest of human beings acquired and inherited without any doubt from his distinguished father who during his professorship guided so many young engineering students to become Engineers of distinction. I thank you once more ...

Aug 26, 2024 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged Engineering Faculty, Peradeniya University, Professor EOE Pereira

Peradeniya University …. emerged 75 Years Back-by Nissanka Warakaulle Source:Thuppahis Nissanka Warakaulle, in The Island, 12 & ….. July 2024…. with highlightsing imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi It was sixty five years ago, and that is very long time ago, on 29 June 1959 that a batch of 378 students from all parts of Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) entered the portals of the most beautiful university at that time, the University of Ceylon, situated in the salubrious surroundings in Peradeniya, just four miles from the historic city of Kandy, after having successfully passed the then University Entrance examination conducted by the university itself, to read for our varied degrees in Arts, Oriental Languages, Law, etc. Hilda Obeysekara Hall Shirley De Alwis The atmosphere was filled with excitement and sometimes with dismal and gloomy feelings, varied feelings produced from a sense of uncertainty and new-found freedom. The drive through the campus from the Galaha ...

Aug 17, 2024 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged D.R. Wijewardena, Higher School Certificate, Peradeniya University, Prof. Yasmin Gooneratne, Vidyodaya University

Ekagei kaema (polyandry) – a way of life in the Kandyan highlands-by Jayantha Perera Source:Island Hingula is a small bazaar 60 miles from Colombo on the Colombo-Kandy Road. A narrow, tarred road starts from there, and a signboard says, ‘To Aluth Nuwara Devalayala.’ The logo of the Archaeological Department on the signboard indicates the devalaya (temple) is a state-protected archaeological site. The temple is about two miles from the bazaar. The road winds through a breathtaking vista of green rice terraces cascading from low hills to narrow lowlands. The rice terraces, like thin carpets with precise lengths and widths, create a mesmerising sight. Large Mara (Samanea saman) trees and patches of tall teak trees provide shade to pedestrians. A rubber plantation and tiny homesteads with arecanut palms interspersed with clove gardens, fruit trees, and pepper vines displaying vibrant colours in sunlight. The winding road takes a right turn by a large open ...

Aug 13, 2024 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged Archaeological Department, Dadimunda Deiyo, Peradeniya University

Memories of Peradeniya University Campus Sparked by A Visit in 2012-by Rex Olegasegaram Rex Olegasegaram, whose favöured title runs thus: “Peradeniya Campus – A Visit Down Memory Lane In November, 2012 when I drove into the Peradeniya University along with my wife Navaranjini, it was indeed a wonderful visit down memory lane covering my very enjoyable undergraduate spell in 1955/59. Then known as the Peradeniya campus of the University of Ceylon, it has indeed seen a number of physical changes in the interim period with new Halls of Residence, some significant changes to existing buildings (e.g. the old tinned roof of the Economics Department replaced with new modern structures), new approaches etc. Notwithstanding, a number of features that obtained at that time still continue: the older Halls of Residence, some lecture theatres, the library including the “pilloring” area, the gymnasium and the sport venues. My elder brother Elmo and I ...

Jul 13, 2024 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged Dr. Doric de Souza, Dr.George Thambyapillai, Hantana hill, Peradeniya University

Captain Cook, the First Fleet & Australia Day: Relevant Facts-by Michael Roberts Sourcce:Thuppahis Earlson Forbes in Sydney in Email Memo to Michael Roberts, 9 February 2024** as a Comment on this TPS Item viz https://thuppahis.com/2024/02/08/anzac-day-outdoes-australia-day-in-the–scales-of-dinky-die-australian-nationalism/ ……….. Note that the highlights in black are those by Earlson, while the other coloured segments are those of Editor Roberts. Whilst the author of this email has made many interesting observations, I think clarification is due on some aspects of the contents. The email in question states. ‘The first fleet arrived in Botany Bay on 18th January. The 26th was chosen as Australia Day for a very different and important reason. The 26th of January 1949 is the day Australians received their independence from British Rule’. ...

Feb 9, 2024 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Michael Roberts Tagged Earlson Forbes, John Allcot, Peradeniya University, The Pacific Island Labourers Act 1901

Shakib has Sullied the Spirit of Cricket – By Michael Roberts Source : thuppahis In my experience from the late 1960s Errol Fernando of Trinity College & Peradeniya University was the fairest of men and one possessing considerable acumen (besides virtuoso fingers at organ and piano) …… Errol Fernando to Lawrence Heyn, 6 November 2023 Dear Lawrence, Am I allowed to say that the ONLY game that has this thing called ‘Spirit’ is CRICKET? May I add that all other games merely have ‘rules’ but no spirit. Is there a spirit of rugby, golf, football, tennis – even gudu or marbles ? Cricket has rules, of course, but what makes cricket the ‘greatest’ of games is that spirit that is far more important than rules. Anyone who disagrees with this should not be playing cricket. Alex Carey infamously abused the spirit at Lord’s. I am more than happy to say that Carey should not be ...

Nov 7, 2023 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Michael Roberts Tagged "CRICKET, Errol Fernando, Peradeniya University, TRINITY COLLEGE

MANURANGA WIJESEKERA SOUGHT AFTER BROADCASTER, LYRICIST, PLAYWRITTER WITH RIGID FOUNDATION FOR INDELIBLE IMPRINT TO CLIMB TO SUMMIT OF FAME – By Sunil Thenabadu In native Sri Lanka it is natural for a lyricist to become broadcaster. Like so many, Manuranga too dominates in both fields clearly dominates, capturing audiences combining several pieces of information using logic to determine the depths of the artistes. As a lyricist Manuranga has qualities of openness, individuality ,curiousness, artistic, innovative, imaginative, value, variety , social responsibility having a general concern for all in abundance. Wijesekera Mudiyanselage Sugeeswara Manuranga Wijesekera acknowledged as Manuranga Wijesekera is renowned predominantly for his triumphs as a lyricist having won an award initially for the song ‘ RAMBARI ’ sung by his close friend Lahiru Perera while he was sharing the same room with him in Singapore. His father Sarath Wijesekera hailed from Boralanda,Welimada studied in S.Thomas’ Gurutalawa and Mt ...

Oct 16, 2023 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Sunil Thenabadu Tagged Asoka Vidyalaya Ananda College Colombo, Dilthara Shalini Jayalath, Gyan Perera, Lahiru Perera, lyricist, MANU, Manuranga Wijesekera, Nanyang Institute of Management’ (NIM) ., Not Out With Manu, Peradeniya University, Plain Tee and Sindu Dekai, RAMBARI, Sirasa Super Star, Sri Lanka, SUNIL PERERA, Sunil Thenabadu

Sustaining vistas of Peradeniya Campus landscape beyond 80 years-By Professor Emeritus Nimal Gunatilleke Source:Island (nimsavg@gmail.com) Member, Sustainable Development Council of Sri Lanka The Peradeniya University was literally ‘more open than usual’ on the 01 July 2023, when it celebrated the very first Founder’s Day on her 80th (or 81st to be exact) birthday. Thousands of people, the majority of them being the young aspirants to higher education, thronged this world-renown Garden University of Sri Lanka on that day. They would have been, no doubt, enthralled by the scenic beauty of university park while paying equal or more attention to an assortment of events organised by the university within its library- and different faculty premises. Amongst them, the Great Chronicle – Mahawansa text, which was selected as the authentic copy to be listed among the 64 new items of documentary heritage inscribed on the UNESCO’s Memory of the World (MoW) International Register ...

Jul 12, 2023 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged Dr. Nihal Karunaratne, Faculty of Agriculture, Peradeniya University, Prof. Ediriweera Sarachchandra

Olympic stars White and Handunge proud products of Kandy-By Hafiz Marikar Source:Dailynews Kandy has produced world renowned sportsmen, who made Kandy and the country proud at the Olympics. When you talk about sports, the Olympics is one of the most coveted sports events in the world. Kandy has produced two top Olympic heroes in athletics and boxing. Duncan White and Leslie Donovan Perera Handunge. The two of them brought honour and fame to their home town and their country with their achievements. First was Duncan White in 1948,Wembley Olympics 400 meters hurdles, the stands swelled with cheering spectators, cameras whirred and the air hummed with the voice of famous commentators of the finalist line up. These two from Kandy who made the city and the country proud are both products of Trinity College. Duncan White made his super effort, the moment he had been waiting for. Big hearted and with ...

Jun 6, 2023 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged Albert Perera Farewell Meet, Ceylon Olympic team, Peradeniya University

Vale: Preofessor Merlin Peiris, A Classicist Par Excellence – By Michael Roberts Source : thuppahis Punsara Amarasinghe, in The Guardian, 18 December 2022, where the ttile runs thus: “Prof. Merlin Peiris: The last of the Mohicans leaves the stage” The greatest quality that would aggrandize Merlin’s name above the current mediocre scholars in Sri Lanka is his intellectual tolerance towards dissent. The demise of Prof Merlin Peiris embodies the end of an epoch representing the humanities academia in Sri Lanka as he was obviously the last of those great doyens who lived when the country’s humanities education was prospering in those halcyon days at the edge of the British rule. Prof. Merlin was one of the first students of the maiden batch of Peradeniya University when it was shifted from Colombo in 1950 and began his flair for classics even before he entered the university under the wings of Noel Phoebus at St. Peter’s ...

Dec 28, 2022 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Michael Roberts Tagged Greeks and Romans, humanities education, Peradeniya University, Sri Lanka, St.Peter's College