Pieter Keuneman’s 105th birth anniversary today Source:Dailynews The 105th birth anniversary of former Minister of Housing and Local Governemnt Pieter Keuneman will be held today at his statue opposite the Elphinstone Theatre, Colombo 10. Pieter Gerald Bartholomeusz Keuneman who was born on October 3, 1917 is one of the founding members of the Sri Lanka Communist Party who represented Central Colombo electorate in Parliament from 1947-1977.Colombo Mayor Rosy Senanayake will garland the statue. Education Minister Susil Premajayantha, former Minister DEW Gunasekera, former Colombo Mayor A.H.M. Fowzie, Deputy Mayor Mohammed Iqbal and senior Communist Party of Sri Lanka officials will participate. ...
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Holland’s Legacy of Dutch Burghers-by Ananda Pieter Keuneman Source:Ceylon-Ananda One would have thought that all good Burghers when they die go to Holland, but unfortunately that is not the case. Now they prefer to go to Australia to live and leaven that vast continent with their traditional contributions, spiced, I am sure, with a little bit of culture of Sri Lanka. Regular globe-trotters tell me that it is not possible these days to walk through the streets of Melbourne or Sydney without hearing the crackle of kokis or scenting the delicate aroma of breudher studded with a thousand raisins or listening to the sweet sounds of things like fuggetti and poffertjes struggling to be born. Though a British Prime Minister, in a moment of pique once said: “In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch is giving too little and asking too much,” the descendants of those who came here with the Dutch ...
Comrade Sivaguru Ganesan Source:Island In the 1950s the HSC (later renamed GCE A-Level) was thought to be a challenging hurdle and few secured A-grades in four subjects – those seeking university entrance (there was only one university) offered three or four subjects. Of those admitted in July 1959 and sat the HSC in December 1958, I think only five in the whole Island secured four A-grades. One was Sivaguru Ganesan of Jaffna Hindu College who entered the prestigious Engineering Faculty of the University of Ceylon then located at Reid Avenue at the head of a 13-strong Jaffna Hindu contingent. More significant was that Ganesan was the only LSSP Full Party Member among the schoolboys admitted in 1959. Despite my longer left pedigree I was a Candidate Member who secured Full Membership only in my freshman year. Membership of the LSSP carried prestige in that bygone era. Ganesan’s early mentor in ...
